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Molly Munger, the lawyer, daughter of billionaire Charles Munger, and sole financier of a school tax initiative that has cost her $7.2 million already, chats with the Sacramento Bee and says she could work with Gov. Jerry Brown on their competing measures. Bee
An LA County sheriff's detective claimed he read a suspect his Miranda rights, but raw TV footage shows otherwise. LAT
Also: guess what happens when you file a complaint against an LA deputy sheriff? Pretty much nothing. in 2012. LAT
The Valley's Republicans are feeling outnumbered. DN
A lawsuit alleges the LAUSD is paying $10 million extra for trash pick up. Witness LA
"Dickens would have been surprised at how long it has taken Los Angeles to build its rail system," says UCLA professor and Charles Dickens scholar Jonathan Grossman. LAT
The family of missing 20th Century Fox distribution executive and former UCLA basketball player Gavin Smith, of West Hills, established a website to help the efforts to locate him. DN wires, KPCC
Susanna Timmons, a veteran of many print and Web jobs at the Los Angeles Times, will join the New York Times night Web operation in June, per internal memo.
Inside the offices of LA Youth and the paper's financial troubles. KCRW
Michael Robinson Chavez and Katie Falkenberg of the LA Times won the Robert F. Kennedy journalism awards for international and domestic photography. Editor's memo
For the first time in a decade, Disneyland has opened membership to its exclusive Club 33, the secretive, members-only restaurant hidden in New Orleans Square. LAT
The LA Kings will meet the Phoenix Coyotes in the NHL's Western Conference Finals. Phoenix eliminated Nashville on Monday night.
Digby Wolfe, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer who helped producer George Schlatter develop "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," died of lung cancer in New Mexico at age 82. LAT
