LA Weekly says 'rumors' are LA Register may close*

Passing along without comment or anything to add: Hillel Aron of the LA Weekly says in a blog post that "rumors have been furiously flying...about the impending closure of Los Angeles' newest newspaper, the L.A. Register."

He adds: "We now understand that its reporters, most of whom relocated to L.A. from Orange County, have been desperately trying to set up job interviews this week and many were expecting L.A. Register to go belly up by today's end."

No comment either way from the Register spokespeople, Aron says. CEO Aaron Kushner reportedly said today at the Hispanic Advertising and Media Conference that he will evaluate "in the next few weeks" whether the Los Angeles Register has a viable future as a daily paper.

For what it's worth, the last tweet on the LA Register Twitter feed was three hours ago.

* 7:30 update: The Orange County Business Journal uses a similar phrase — "could close as soon as today" — but the story refers to the deal closing to sell the Register's headquarters in Orange County. The story does note "talk of mounting financial challenges for Freedom Communications," the Register's parent company. Some severance payments have been missed to staffers who took buyouts, the OCBJ says.