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Late, non-Occupy LA edition.
- The National Weather Service of potentially damaging Santa Ana winds coming into the region, with gusts over 80 miles an hour raising the fire threat to a high level.
- The AMC Avco Center 4 theaters on Wilshire in Westwood will close Sunday, but the building manager says new higher-end theaters are on the way next year. Company Town
- There will be no team of Anheuser-Busch Clydesdales parading down Colorado Boulevard in the forthcoming Rose Parade -- their first absence in 58 years. DN
- When Louis Cella and Richard O'Neill ran Orange County through a "shadow government." Dan Walters/Bee
- Former Dodger and Angel Bobby Valentine looks to be the new manager of the Boston Red Sox, for better or worse. ESPN
- Former Rep. Carlos Moorhead, who represented the Glendale and San Gabriel Valley areas for 24 years, died at age 89. LAT