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Friday desk-clearing
- Lunchtime brawls at Locke High in South Los Angeles involved hundreds of students and led to four arrests, as well as a campus lockdown. Overwhelmed school officials called in the LAPD. LAT Also: Donna Foote, the author of "Relentless Pursuit" who spent a year at Locke, guests tomorrow on KPFK's "Deadline L.A." with Barbara Osborn and Howard Blume. Noon, 90.7 FM
- Mayor Vilaraigosa discusses Rush Limbaugh's "shoeshine boy" remark and other issues Sunday on KNBC News Conference with Laurel Erickson, 9:30 am on Channel 4. District Attorney Steve Cooley and UTLA president A.J. Duffy are also on.
- Vandals shot out the windows of at least 50 cars in Azusa early this morning. L.A. Now
- If today's L.A. Times Column One about the artist who painted murals at San Quentin sounded familiar, it could be because a shorter version ran in the New York Times last August.
- Reporter Lisa Napoli has left "Marketplace" to write her book on helping start a radio station in Bhutan, "Three Good Things: Or, What I Learned in the Happiest Place on Earth."
- At the OC Register, it's not the Travel Editor (Gary Warner) who's leaving but Steve Plesa, whose title was Team Leader for Food and Travel-Features.
- My weekly LA Observed commentary on KCRW airs at 4:44 pm. Today: a roundup of Hollywood economic news.
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