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Kevin Roderick • October 17 2008 9:04 AM

An internal LAPD report acknowledged that people have been falsely implicated in crimes because the department's fingerprint experts wrongly identified them as suspects. LAT
Comparing Villaraigosa's spending and fiscal crisis to the Board of Supervisors, which has no crisis. LA Weekly
Raul Macias, aka El Cardenal, has built a strong political base on the soccer fields of northeast Los Angeles. LAT
The downtown ICE detention facility denies basic care to people in custody. LA Daily Journal (no link)
The Planning Commission voted for a one-year moratorium on the conversion to digital billboards. LAT
An L.A. sheriff's deputy is suspected of embezzling nearly half a million dollars in towing fees from the city of La Puente. SGV Tribune
Councilman Tom LaBonge and neighborhood groups want to scale back the $800 million expansion of Universal City on MTA land outside the studio, but Mayor Villaraigosa is pushing the project. DN
Tribune gives notice that it might drop out of Associated Press in two years. Negotiating ploy? LA Biz Observed
Fox 11's John Schwada talks up his network's "Hannity and Colmes" show as a center of informed viewers. MyFoxLA
Carl Kozlowski, Jake Belcher and Brant Thoman debut Saturday at 1 am on KABC 790 as "staunchly libertarian (yet funny) opponents of Obama" with a "funny and topically outrageous talk show about each week's news and politics." (Email)
Amy Alkon fights back against intermittent Internet service from Time Warner. Advice Goddess
If you left newspapers involuntarily, take the survey. American Journalism Review
LAO contributor Erika Schickel is also contributing at The Daily Beast, Tina Brown's new website.
Longtime TV game show host Jack Narz died at age 85. LAT

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George Clooney is just a Valley guy

11:31 AM Fri | The actor gives CBS' "Person to Person" a tour of his Studio City home of 20 years. He moved to Los Angeles almost ten years before; his dad Nick Clooney...

11:00 AM Fri | No charges to be filed in Alhambra cold case arrest

10:38 AM Fri | Madonna's stalker arrested near hospital he left

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Is the McMansion craze fading?

11:53 AM Fri | I'm not sure L.A. will be the first place to see a pullback.

8:52 AM Fri | Dirty little secret: Fans care a lot more than players

8:41 AM Fri | Drug violence and all, Mexico is holding up pretty well

Go to Mark's blog