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- Hollywood producer and manager Joan Hyler was hit by a car on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and is in critical condition at UCLA. DN wires
- Mayor Villaraigosa has received nearly $1.3 million in contributions and commitments over the past two years from Forever 21, which wants to build on the former South Central Farm. Activists smell a rat. LAT
- How local elected Democrats are paying for their trip to the Denver convention, and big fundraising plans for Parks and Ridley-Thomas. Orlov/DN
- Politicians turn out at the funeral of Bo Taylor. Witness LA
- The feds are investigating Tyrone Freeman's election as head of his Los Angeles SEIU local. LAT
- Charisse Bremond-Weaver, president and CEO of the Brotherhood Crusade, attacks the Times' original story on Freeman. L.A. Sentinel
- Now it's bike vs car rage on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Daily Breeze
- David Markland is no longer City Captain for Metblogs Los Angeles. He'll focus on Creepy LA, his Los Angeles Halloween blog, and California Faultline. Lucinda Michele Knapp and Sean Bonner fill the role.
- Chris Ayres, Los Angeles correspondent for the Times of London, expresses the joys of home ownership and having a big mortgage. LAT Op-Ed
- Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild and his lawyers will hold a press conference tomorrow to "declare war" on the Florida legal system over his recent incarceration there.
- After languishing in storage for more than 40 years, poems by Bob Dylan and photographs by Barry Feinstein will be published in November in a collection titled “Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript.” NYT
- Celestino Drago is converting a former bank at City National Plaza downtown into Drago Centro, to open in the fall. Downtown News
- Daily Racing Form says Bob Benoit, who died at 81, "was best known as the co-founder of Benoit and Associates, which has the track photography business at Del Mar, Hollywood Park, Santa Anita, and Fairplex Park, and also furnishes photos to Daily Racing Form. But his career in racing began more than 50 years ago, when he was hired as a publicity department assistant at Hollywood Park."
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