Latest round of Chick v. Cardenas

Exchange of letters yesterday afternoon with City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo over gang programs. WitnessLA

Jane Usher email invites suits against the city

The president of the Planning Commission wrote that the new city ordinance allowing housing developers to roll back zoning rules may violate state law. LAT, DN

Baca endorses Parks and Ridley-Thomas

The sheriff feels both candidates for Supervisor are "highly qualified" for the job, his spokesman says. LAT

Q-&-A with Getty's Michael Brand

Life after the museum's return of antiquities to Italy is the topic. CultureGrrl

Wilshire's latest residential resurgence

More than two dozen residential developments have either been completed or proposed along the boulevard between downtown and the Miracle Mile district. Affluent Koreans are driving the upscale market. LAT

Playa Vista remains will be reburied

The development promised to install a memorial called the Discovery Center with exhibits on the history of the Ballona Wetlands and the Gabrielino-Tongva tribe. LAT

John Buttera, hot rod builder was 68

One of the innovators in Southern California racing circles died March 2 of complications from brain cancer. LAT