Morning Buzz: Tuesday 10.18.11

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was freed in a prison exchange after five years of captivity in Gaza. CBS News, Jewish Journal

Nearly 5,000 people lined up outside the Sports Arena on Monday to receive a plastic wristband that admits them to the CareNow free medical clinic opening Thursday. LAT

Today's the day the county Board of Supervisors takes up whether to call for an independent panel to review claims of brutality by jail deputies. LA Observed, LA Now, Witness LA
Meanwhile: Two deputies were reassigned over the weekend after an inmate alleged that she had had sex with one of them. LAT

Rep. Linda Sanchez is reporting campaign account losses of $322,000 tied to the Kinde Durkee accounting scandal, the most of any officeholder so far. AP

The primary election challenge in the Valley between Democratic Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman tops Politico's list of the likely most expensive congressional races of next year. Politico

Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Rob Reiner, Tom Hanks and Kirk Douglas are among the Hollywood figures who gave to Rep. Howard Berman's campaign in the quarter ended on Sept. 30. Wilshire & Washington

Celine Cordero, a longtime aide to Antonio Villaraigosa who most recently has been deputy mayor of legislative and intergovernmental relations, is leaving City Hall on Thursday to be director of external affairs for LAX. Daily Breeze

In a letter to key legislators, the California High-Speed Rail Authority's acknowledgment about private funding again raises serious questions about how the $43-billion construction cost will be paid over the next decade. LAT

President Obama nominated Paul Watford, 44, of Pasadena, an appellate litigation partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Political Blotter

The son of former LAFD chief Millage Peaks was charged Monday with bribing a federal Transportation Security Administration officer at LAX to help him smuggle marijuana past security on nine separate trips. LAT, Daily Breeze

Concessionaires at the city's Rancho Park and Woodley Lakes golf courses are leaving in contract disputes. DN

Part 2 of the L.A. Times series on the Kabbalah Centre: "The heightened profile of the L.A.-based Kabbalah Centre came with a continued emphasis on soliciting donations, sometimes in ways some found offensive. Then the IRS stepped in." LAT

Louise Steinman, the author of "The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War" and co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for Humanities at USC, will be a judge for the 2011 Story Prize. Steinman runs the ALOUD speaker series at the L.A. Public Library. Jacket Copy

There's been some blogosphere reaction to LAPD Homicide Detective Sal LaBarbera tweeting a shot of dead body at a crime scene in South LA, with the caption “Guess where I’m at??? It never ends.” Fishbowl LA

Raymond Mesa, news anchor at KWHY-22 for nine years, was named News Director. Media Moves

More than 700,000 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains and environs were deemed nationally significant and therefore suitable for inclusion in the National Park system, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Interior. SGV Tribune

After a one-year delay, the clock will again start ticking for a historic Downtown landmark on Wednesday as environmental review resumes on a project that will most likely result in the demolition and replacement of the 1933 Sixth Street Viaduct. Blogdowntown

Golden Road Brewery opened the hangar-sized doors of its multi-warehouse Atwater Village craft beer campus to the public Sunday afternoon, drawing slightly more than 1,000 people. Daily Dish

Pasadena city officials moved closer to inviting an NFL team to use the Rose Bowl as a temporary home by commissioning a traffic study in the Arroyo. SGV Tribune

An unnamed actress is suing IMDb for $1 million for revealing her age in her profile by using her credit-card information. NY Post