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AEG talks about football stadium plans for Downtown, Boxer goes up by eight points, Villaraigosa is in Lu Parker's home state and KTLA's Eric Spillman catches a bad guy.
- AEG is willing to invest $1 billion in a downtown football stadium and "event center" complex and $300 million in a renovation of the adjacent Los Angeles Convention Center, Tim Leiweke said Thursday. DN
- Barbara Boxer is up by eight points over Carly Fiorina in a new Field Poll. Plus Fiorina returns to campaigning after her stop in the hospital for an infection. Bee, Chronicle, Mercury, Register, AP
- Meg Whitman said that her former housekeeper who threw in with Gloria Allred should be deported. LAT
- Bad news for Kamala Harris: too many of the state's voters live in Los Angeles County, home of Steve Cooley. LAT
- "SoCal Connected" and KPCC are teaming up on live election-night coverage on KCET and post-election analysis in part three of the show's “California Votes” series on Wednesday, November 3, at 9:00 p.m.
- Mayor Villaraigosa is in South Carolina (home state of Lu Parker) to attend the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, billed as a collaboration between the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Architectural Foundation. It's in Charleston.
- Speaking of Parker, she did a story on dog fighting last night on the KTLA news. Animals again.
- KTLA reporter Eric Spillman was doing live reports in East Los Angeles when he spotted and confronted a registered sex offender on the run. LAT
- Students at USC say there's a widespread bed bug problem, according to an undercover investigation by KTLA News. KTLA
- The Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research opens today at USC.
- Assemblyman Mike Gatto demanded that the Mayor Sam blog take down false and defamatory reports about him, and the blog agreed. DN
- You could think of CSUN's new Valley Performing Arts Center as the Anti-Disney Hall, says Rip Rense. Patch
- KCBS-TV (Channel 2) will air the Jacksonville Jaguars at Dallas Cowboys game at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
- Charlie LeDuff, the former New York Times reporter in Los Angeles, has left the Detroit News to freelance. Crains
- ProPublica, the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Center for Public Integrity have partnered with American Public Media's Public Insight Network. Romenesko
- Today at midnight is the deadline for Tribune creditors to challenge the company's bankruptcy exit plan. Chicago Tribune
- Ex-Tribune guy Lee Abrams talks about it on video with My Damn Channel. Romenesko
- Today's Column One in the Times by Diane Pucin remembers the 1960 plane crash in which 16 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo student athletes died. LAT
- City Controller Wendy Greuel guests on "Patt Morrison" after the 2 p.m. news on KPCC.