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Air Force One departure time, transportation for Farmers field, Supervisors' redistricting, Parks endorses Perry, the LAT catches on to the Sly Stone is homeless story and more.
Air Force One is scheduled to depart LAX with President Obama at 10:40 a.m.
Gavel to gavel media coverage of the Dr. Conrad Murray trial in Michael Jackson's death begins today.
The city has approved $1 million in federal community development block grant money to help Gensler, the architects for Farmers Field, move from Santa Monica to Downtown. CBS 2
The public got its first peek Monday at the transportation plan for the proposed 72,000-seat football stadium at L.A. Live. LAT
With the Board of Supervisors expected to take up the contentious redistricting debate today, the Times editorialized that they do the right thing but the paper declined to say specifically what that would be. LAT
Judges on the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals have thrown out a provision in the Port of L.A.'s Clean Trucks Plan that would require trucking companies to hire their drivers as employees. KPCC News, LAT, LA Weekly
Councilman Bernard Parks announced his endorsement of colleague Jan Perry for mayor. City Maven
Mayor Villaraigosa plans to talk about jobs at a noon luncheon hosted by Town Hall Los Angeles at the Downtown Marriott.
The L.A. Times today chases the New York Post and the blogs on the Sly Stone is homeless story. LAT
KTLA reporter Eric Spillman on Twitter: "It's pretty cool to go outside and take a picture of the President's helicopter flying over your home." Tweet
Also, KTLA's Mark Kriski and Jennifer Gould were married on Saturday.
'Moneyball' author Michael Lewis will write the script for 'Liar's Poker' for Warner Bros. THR
"SoCal Connected" returns for its fourth season on KCET at a new time, Fridays at 8:30 p.m., with encores on Saturdays at 6 p.m., Sundays at 6:30 p.m. and Mondays at 10:30 p.m.
Andrew Sullivan has launched a new video blog feature called Ask Me Anything. Daily Beast
Sheigh Crabtree is the new executive editor at UberMedia, an Idealab startup. Twitter
Rebecca Schoenkopf m,ade her "Off-Ramp" debut this past weekend. KPCC
FBI agents probing misconduct allegations in the L.A. County Jail orchestrated an undercover sting in which they paid about $1,500 to a sheriff's deputy to smuggle a cellphone to an inmate, sources said. LAT
Oh the stuff they're finding at the bottom of Echo Park's drained lake. LAT
Libros Schmibros bridges a cultural gap in Los Angeles. The Forward
The Houston's in Century City is closing after 20years. LA Weekly
In praise of the four-level freeway interchange downtown known as The Stack after 58 years. SoCal Focus
Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design opens Wednesday at the MAK Center.