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Short stack today due to the SpaceX news this morning.
Bryan Stow beating suspect Marvin Norwood told his mother that he was involved in the crime, in a call recorded and played in court. LAT
An LAUSD high principal captivated the county jails commission with the horrifying account of what happened to his son in Sheriff Baca's Twin Towers jail. Witness LA
The LA Times found a new way to get the keywords nude and nudity onto its website: a Column One story about a nudist resort in Palm Springs that stopped allowing children. LAT
Now come the details: That porn video shot on the floor of the Coliseum a decade ago had a filming permit. It just omitted the pornography specifics. LAT
NBC 4 reporter Ana Gracia tweets that on her Turkish Airlines flight from LAX to Istanbul, a passenger had to be restrained by flight attendants.
Fox News Channel produced and aired on "Fox and Friends" a four-minute video "that portrayed President Obama’s tenure as a series of failed promises. The video had most of the hallmarks of a campaign attack ad, except that it was produced and paid for by a news network rather than a candidate or a political action committee." NYT
Take a tour of the Anthony C. Beilenson Interagency Visitor Center on the former King Gillette Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. DN
KCSN program director Sky Daniels has added the title of interim general manager with the departure of Karen Kearns, who is returning to the Cal State Northridge Department of Cinema and Television Arts as a professor of radio and media management.
Casey Sullivan, who covers law firm business for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, leaves today to be a legal reporter at Thomson Reuters in New York. Gabe Friedman, who won a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia Business School, leaves tomorrow.
The LA Times caught up with an obit of artist Calvin Hicks. Here is our report from May 23.
