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Assignment editor takes part in sting, a councilman registers his dog, Cooley called a liberal, 99 things to eat before you die — and more after the jump.
- KFI assignment editor Michael Clarke took part in an LAPD sting to recover his stolen bicycle. NTS Media Online
- With the city cracking down, Councilman Tom LaBonge got his dog licensed. LA Daily
- A web ad by GOP rival Tom Harman says Steve Cooley is unfit to be attorney general because "he is a soft-on-crime liberal who opposed the Three Strikes Law and 'supports liberal judges.'" Met News-Enterprise
- Nearly a third of older-model cars stopped for roadside smog tests in Southern California failed them, despite having received a passing grade at inspection stations within a year, a state audit has found. LAT
- Moved by teary testimony from city workers fearing job losses, the City Council Wednesday asked staff to look into cutting the value of all city contracts by 10 percent and consider whether city workers could do some of that work. DN
- City Council president Eric Garcetti talked to Times editors and reporters about the city budget situation. Partial transcript
- The city's Ethics Commission has dropped a conflict-of-interest investigation into travel to China and New England by six current and former employees of Los Angeles World Airports, says their lawyer Terree Bowers. LAT
- Jonathan Gold's 99 things to eat in Los Angeles before you die is the theme of the new LA Weekly.
- Some of L.A.'s poor may now be paying more in traffic and parking fines than in taxes. LA Weekly
- Gangs still control underground commerce, public parks, schools and housing in some parts of Los Angeles, "and it goes without saying that they continue to exert their influence from our maximum security prisons," says Constance Rice. HuffPost
- The Miss California USA contestant who calls herself Miss Beverly Hills (and who cited the Bible to attack gays) is from Pasadena and has no connection with BevHills other than to shop there, that city says. LAT
Plus: What is it with the glut of thinly vetted Bible-thumping beauty queens? Opinion L.A. - Pop station KIIS-FM (102.7) reclaimed the top spot in local radio ratings in January. LAT, LA Radio
- Matt Kemp says his offseason was "a little overwhelming" but that now he's ready to play. LAT, AP
- It took humans about three years to rebuild San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences—but less than a year for the leaf cutter ants to figure a way to bust out. WSJ