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Fumbling toward a medical pot ordinance, the assessor won't run again, a TV reporter switches sides and more — including the family of Mitrice Richardson filing a claim.
- The City Council fiddled with its proposed ordinance covering pot clinics, apparently rejecting buffer zones of 500 and 1,000 feet from homes and tentatively agreeing that dispensaries should not be next to them or across the street. More provisions are to be voted on Tuesday. LAT, DN, Fox 11, ABC 7
- The U.S. Supreme Court won't allow TV coverage of the Prop. 8 trial in San Francisco. LAT
- Los Angeles County Assessor Rick Auerbach will announce today he will not seek re-election to his $180,000- a year job this June. Daily News
- Steve Cooley makes the Republican race for AG interesting, says Joel Fox. Fox & Hounds Daily
- As we reported a couple of days ago, this is the morning that Tom Campbell announces he is leaving the GOP race for governor to run for U.S. Senate.
- The family of Mitrice Richardson, missing since her release from the Malibu/Lost Hills sheriff’s station on Sept. 17, has filed a multimillion-dollar claim against Los Angeles County alleging that Sheriff’s Department personnel acted negligently. LAT
- The Beverly Hills school board voted to let current high school transfer students apply to stay in the city's schools but to probably drop other opportunity permits for outsiders. LAT, NYT
- The LAUSD paid $200 million more in salaries than it budgeted last year even as it laid off 2,000 teachers and hundreds of other employees, according to an internal audit. LAT
- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services downgraded California's credit rating, already the worst of any state, another notch. Sacto Bee
- Former Channel 2 morning traffic reporter Vera Jimenez is joining KTLA Channel 5 to do traffic and weather on the 6 p.m. and 6:30 newscasts. LAT
- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is taking his new Deputy Mayor and Chief Executive for Economic and Business Policy, Austin Beutner, to Sun Valley to meet with Valley business leaders at 1 p.m.
- Timber Gap Publishers will release "Wild Card," former L.A. Times reporter Ronald B. Taylor's followup to his earlier California novel "Long Road Home."