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Coroner's technician and photographer Michael Cormier may have died of arsenic poisoning. Authorities have not ruled out foul play. Wingnuts immediately linked the death to Andrew Breitbart, without any evidence that Cormer had even heard of him. LAT, InfoWars
The Los Angeles Times has mapped 63 deaths around LA County during the riots. In 1992, the city of Los Angeles had 1,096 homicides, its most ever. LAT
Key figures in the riots and the Rodney King beating case, and where they are now. LAT
Former AP photographer Craig Fujii, injured in the riots, is now a nurse practitioner at an Army medical center in Honolulu. LAT
A selection of coverage of sa-i-gu from the Korean-Amerian perspective. Angry Asian Man
Race and Rage: L.A. Civil Unrest 20 Years Later. LA Sentinel
Celeste Fremon on April 29, 1992, Daryl Gates and making it home. Witness LA
The OC Weekly's Nick Schou remembers his role, caught on news film, in trying to break a window downtown as a senior at Occidental College.
Tony Peyser poem
Gov. Jerry Brown manages expectations on "Face the Nation." Bee
He's almost 71. And his wife just resigned from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors after a drug-fueled affair with a meth addict. But state Treasurer Bill Lockyer has more than $2.5 million banked to run for Controller in two years. Contra Costa Times
The Los Angeles Times endorses Rep. Howard Berman for reelection, but calls Rep. Brad Sherman "a standout lawmaker." LAT editorial
The Coalition of L.A. City Unions will heat up its feud with Mayor Villaraigosa by calling on President Obama and the Democratic National Committee to remove Villaraigosa as chair of the Democrats' convention in Charlotte. Rick Orlov's Tipoff/DN
A Santa Barbara County board balked at giving Rick Caruso a property tax break worth $200,000 a year on his Miramar development in Montecito. Santa Barbara Independent
Today at 5 p.m., EmpowerLA will have an open house in its new offices on the 20th floor of City Hall.
Former Democratic state Sen. Daniel Boatwright died Friday at age 82. Sacto Bee
L.A. Youth, the newspaper written by local teenagers, is struggling to hang on since the foundations who were its primary funding have pulled out. It "needs to raise $500,000 by mid-May or it will run out of money." LAT
"Are the L.A. Times food pages doomed?" asks Larry Levine. "They are an embarassment for our hometown newspaper." Table Talk
A Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market will open in Panorama City, about a mile from the large Wal-Mart in the former Broadway department store at Van Nuys and Roscoe. LAT
Walter L. Gordon Jr., a lawyer who had a practice on Central Avenue for 65 years and a mentor to many black lawyers in Los Angeles, died at age 103. LAT
