The Kings played their longest game ever tonight in Chicago — deep into the second overtime period — but lost in sudden death when the Blackhawks scored. That eliminates the Kings from only their third appearance ever in the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

A student named John Zawahri appears as a junior in the 2006 yearbook. He did not appear a year later with the 2007 graduating class. Those grads would be 23 or 24 now.

Video from inside the tense KCRW studios just before yesterday's evacuation. The U.K. band had to cancel last night's show at The Avalon. Will try again Sunday.

One of the dead was a long-time employee of Santa Monica College. His wounded daughter is not expected to survive, the college president says in a statement. Media have identified the slain gunman as John Zawahri, who would have turned 24 today.

Yasiel Puig hit his fourth home run tonight in his fifth game since coming up from the minors, apparently sent here by the baseball gods to save the Dodgers' season. Puig is now tied with Andre Ethier for fourth on the team in home runs.

Police revised downward the number of deaths at multiple locations. They believe the shooter acted alone. KCRW staff was evacuated from the studios and moved to Culver City.

AP says that Richard Ramirez has died at age 53 while in prison. No more details are available yet. In the mid-1980s, Ramirez would enter Los Angeles area homes through open windows and doors and murder who he found inside.

San Onofre to close for good. Feinstein defends PRISM spying on emails and servers. Garcetti to attend Obama fundraiser. Sunnylands considered and the A. Quincy Jones connection. Tutor Perini gets the contract for high-speed rail. And two first-person perspectives by LA media people, on lesbian bar The Palms and on local politics.

LAPD Sgt. David Mascarenas dove in the murky, bubbling, smelly pool at the La Brea Tar Pits on Thursday looking for evidence in a 2011 murder case. It's not anywhere you would want to go.

Esther Williams, the swimming star of MGM's Technicolor musicals in the 1940s and 50s, died Thursday morning at home in Beverly Hills at age 91. "Esther’s movies were sheer escapism and didn’t pretend to be anything more," says Maltin

The filmmakers "make spectacular use of Russian’s invasive paparazzi-style media freedoms on behalf of their movie, and create of a girl group that might not be the best band in the world, but is certainly the bravest." Trailer inside.

Coachella music festival promoter Goldenvoice has been trying since April to repatriate hundreds of wallets, cellphones, car keys and other items with the fans who left them behind in the desert. They really work hard to find the owners.

Dennis Lahti, a cameraman-editor for KNBC, posted this photo of his father, Richard Lahti, loaded up for "2 On The Town" on Channel 2: "We now do it with a camera, laptop/non-linear editing software, and a video-over-cellular live video transmission backpack."

Tonight's addition to the legend of Yasiel Puig: a grand slam home run on the first pitch he saw in the 8th inning. The Dodgers beat the Braves 5-0 behind starting pitcher Zack Greinke.

That's the Van Nuys city hall, where the Los Angeles City Council will hold its Friday meeting. Davies is in town to perform at the Canyon Club and elsewhere. Vintage videos inside.

As I mentioned earlier, the Obamajam potential for Friday's short visit by President Obama is not bad. He's coming in mid-morning and leaving early afternoon so the driving disruption should be localized. But it's still Santa Monica in tourist season, so traffic could be a challenge.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District has apparently decided that banning fires for health reasons at Dockweiler State Beach — under the LAX takeoff path and downwind from the massive Hyperion sewage treatment plant — didn't make sense scientifically or environmentally. So a revised proposal for fire rings on beaches will be released today that incorporates "better and more information than we had two months ago."

Ron Calderon and the water district. Ratkovich to make over Macy's Plaza. Big LAPD drill downtown this morning. Villaraigosa going to Mitt Romney event today. 25 progressive ideas for Garcetti. No parole for Leslie Van Houten. And Mission and State debuts today in Santa Barbara. Plus more.

Former assemblyman Dario Frommer and attorney David Fleming, a big player in the San Fernando Valley secession crusade a decade ago, are the co-chairs of Robert Hertzberg's bid to get back into elected office.

Union chief Brian D'Arcy says Greuel ran a "crappy campaign." Villaraigosa's transportation legacy. Should AEG run the city's convention center? A segment of Wilshire bus lane opens. Gustavo Arellano apologizes for screwing up. Henry Louis Gates Jr. in Leimert Park. Uncle Ruthie gets ink. Leslie Van Houten has a hearing. Plus Yasiel Puig goes deep twice and the Kings win.

Young barn owls and an uncollared mountain lion on video (inside) in the wilds of Orange County.

When his term ends July 1, making Villaraigosa a bachelor free agent, he apparently wants to move even further to the west. A source tells LA Observed that Villaraigosa is looking hard at Venice (or already there.)

The FBI isn't saying why, citing a court's seal on the search warrant, but media reports say it relates to a corruption probe in Los Angeles County. Calderon is from Montebello.

President Obama will drop into Santa Monica on Friday for a Democratic Party fundraiser, but he won't be stopping into the Santa Monica High School graduation like some students hoped. The White House schedule has Obama arriving at LAX about 10:30 a.m. and leaving via Air Force One around 2 p.m.

There was a time — actually a long time — when the Empress Pavilion at the north end of Chinatown was packed with hundreds of downtown and Chinese dim sum fans at lunch.

After deliberating for a week and getting some urging yesterday from the judge, jurors acquitted businesswoman Kelly Soo Park in the 2008 killing of model and aspiring actress Juliana Redding. Outbursts of "murderer" and "travesty of justice" were heard in the courtroom.

City Attorney-elect Mike Feuer named his transition team today. The co-chairs are police commission president Andrea Sheridan Ordin and former Assembly Speaker Robert Hertzberg. The co-executive directors are Miriam Aroni Krinsky and Alex Ponder. Inside: team members and the communications director.

Lockyer makes way. Museums appeal to Brown over USC parking. Block party for Villaraigosa story still has legs. Obama and Cory Booker coming to town. LAT puts Nikki Finke on A1. Univision anchor Jorge Ramos makes Column One. And Milton Bradley goes down while Yasiel Puig comes up.

Los Angeles Times national editor Roger Smith is retiring and will be replaced by Kim Murphy, currently the paper's Seattle bureau chief.

Powerhouse fire grows, Garcetti to give up piano, museums versus USC, deputy sheriff wears an FBI wire, Walter Kirn on his friendship with Clark Rockefeller, writers peg "The Sopranos" as best-written TV series ever, Stalker Sarah in the NYT and the Mt. Wilson web cam is beaming mountain scenes again. Plus much more.

Finke posts a response in which she neither confirms nor denies that she has been "fired" from her own Deadline Hollywood by owner Jay Penske, as Sharon Waxman reported Sunday at The Wrap. "I am not going to discuss my Deadline Hollywood contract or my relationship with my boss Jay Penske," says Finke. "Why? Because I don’t have to."

More than 1,200 homes are considered threatened. Fifteen have been damaged, including six that were destroyed. The fire command said at midnight that 22,242 acres have burned and there was 20% containment.

Finalists included Hollywood Oaks, Granada Hills, Wilshire Vista and North Hollywood. But the winner meets the only real criteria: easy access to LAX.

The Wrap reports that Jay Penske has fired Finke. Penske's flack says it's not true. But the truth is less black and white...there is a contract negotiation involved...and Finke has reportedly been telling people she is looking to get out.

The strongest earthquake to hit New Zealand's capital of Wellington in 150 years is raising seismic alarms, “but none of the locals are diving under desks or sheltering in doorways,” the New Zealand Herald says.

After losing 7-2 Sunday in Colorado, the Dodgers return home 23-32 on the season and in last place. Injuries prompt the team to call up the 22-year-old Cuban prospect despite concerns he isn't ready for the spotlight.

The Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released in the United States on June 1 in 1967. Music writer Chris Morris: "LIke every other 17-year-old in America...we turned the lights down and listened in awe as the last sustained piano chord in 'A Day in the Life' reverberated and died."