Supervisors vote to take over two departments

The elected county Board of Supervisors, and not their CEO William Fujioka, would run the Department of Children and Family Services and the probation department if a 3-2 vote on Tuesday holds up. "The power struggle came less than a month after Antonia Jimenez, a Fujioka deputy who was appointed interim director of DCFS, infuriated several supervisors by defying their order to sign a contract," says the LANG report. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky voted aye — here's his website staff's coverage of the issue.

Earlier: LAT's Jim Newton on the split.