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Wendy Greuel backed away Tuesday from her call for a new round of negotiations over employee pension cuts, saying she wants only to meet with labor leaders to discuss ways of avoiding a lawsuit over the reductions. LAT
Steve Lopez: Is Greuel's labor embrace going to backfire with Valley conservatives? LAT column
Board of Education President Mónica García endorsed Wendy Greuel for mayor. Also: the county Federation of Labor made its endorsement of Greuel official.
City Council President Herb Wesson has tapped Mickey Kantor, the former Commerce Secretary, to head a commission to examine the city's troubled finances. Austin Beutner and DWP union chief Brian D'Arcy are also said to be involved. LA Weekly
Former City Council member Rita Walters issued an open letter criticizing CD9 candidate Curren Price for being racially divisive in his campaign against Ana Cubas, who Walters supports.
DWP commissioners moved forward with plans to dump the city's interest in a coal-burning plant in Arizona and convert another in Utah to natural gas. The changes, coupled with new commitments to renewable power, would make the city coal-free by 2025, two years earlier than a state deadline. LAT, DN, KPCC
Two key reform efforts intended to address the Los Angeles Fire Department's diminished resources and faulty performance tracking are being delayed, agency officials said Tuesday. LAT
Supervisors Mike Antonovich and Gloria Molina, frustrated by a lack of progress on improving the county's troubled jail system, convinced the board on Tuesday to approve hiring an outside consultant to help speed up the pace. LAT
In the April issue of Los Angeles magazine: How to afford LA, inside LA's art world, the five decade-old murder trial of Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff, an interview with Patrick Soon-Shiong and more.
KCRW threw a launch party at the Tesla store in Santa Monica for Francis Anderton's newly expanded DnA podcast, blog and public events. Design and Architecture
The Department of Justice is said to be nearing the end of a broad investigation into alleged corruption at News Corp., in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the company's British publishing unit. LAT
"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn was the top selling book in hardcover fiction at Southern California independent booksellers last week. The top nonfiction seller was "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" by Sheryl Sandberg. Bookweb
Damian Kevitt, the cyclist who lost a leg when struck by a hit-and-run driver near Griffith Park in February, talked about his ordeal and urged the driver to come forward. KTLA
Three LAPD officers were injured arresting a suspect inside a burning apartment in the Palms area. CNS
The car of missing Colorado teenager Raven Cassidy Furlong was found in Venice. CBS LA
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Tuesday that it wouldn't remove any more vegetation in the Sepulveda Basin's south reserve until at least mid-September. LAT, DN
The Annenberg Space for Photography is opening a new exhibit on war photography from 1887 through today. Works by David Hume Kennerly and Carolyn Cole are included.
LA Works and United Way of Greater Los Angeles announced a partnership to expand and promote corporate volunteerism throughout Los Angeles County.
King Kong made an appearance at the Fox movie theater in Pomona in 1933 — there is photographic evidence — and this weekend the film is returning for an anniversary showing. David Allen
If hipsters were supposed to revive America's urban wastelands, they've failed. Daily Beast
