• City officials called on hikers and others to help them find an arsonist who set five fires in Griffith Park last weekend. DN
  • Overturned sewage tanker closes Pacific Coast Highway at the Ventura County line. LAT
  • Seven new principals named at Villaraigosa's schools. DN
  • Twins Austin and Howard Raishbrook speed dangerously through the night streets of L.A. to shoot freelance news footage for TV stations. LAT Column One
  • Los Angeles has done little to push its new spay and neuter law for pets, Controller Laura Chick says. DN
  • Tribute to Steve Harvey's "Only in L.A." by columnist David Allen at the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. DB
  • Advice for LAT publisher Eddy Hartenstein from Alan Mutter.
  • Former LAUSD board president Caprice Young is resigning as head of the California Charter School Association to become an executive with the Milkens' Knowledge Universe. Ron Kaye
  • New URL and slightly new title for Jay Christensen's college football blog The Wiz of Odds.
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