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- Rep. Jackie Speier confirmed this afternoon she will not run for state attorney general.
- Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who gave medicines to Michael Jackson before he died, is in Los Angeles and awaiting his likely indictment for involuntary manslaughter according to media reports.
- Would-be LAX bomber Ahmed Ressam's 22-year sentence is so lenient that it constitutes procedural error and failure to adequately protect the public, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
- Councilman Jose Huizar has an Op-Ed piece in today's Times saying the city needs more clarity from the state legislature to make the local medical marijuana ordinance work.
- The Pasadena Playhouse should not solicit funds one week and close down the next, says Friendly Fire columnist Jonathan Dobrer — "this we expect from a gym, not from a rightly revered cultural institution."
- KTLA Channel 5 will broadcast the Los Angeles Marathon on March 21 live and in high-definition.
- Managing director Glenn Bunting has opened Sitrick & Company's offices in San Francisco, with responsibility for offices in Silicon Valley and South Florida.
- Frederic C. Rosen, the former President and CEO of Ticketmaster, joined Englander Knabe & Allen as a senior counselor.
- The National Sports Daily would have been 20 years old if it had survived until this past weekend.
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