♦ The school board
picked up Supt. Roy Romer's option for another year.
♦ The state medical board opened an investigation of the St. Vincent's physicians who sold a liver transplant to a Saudi man ranked number 52 on the waiting list. The
Times also reports that nine St. Vincent's patients were among the bypassed.
♦ The Angels win the
pennant! division. The Angels win the
pennant! division.
ESPN
♦ Mayor Villaraigosa guests on The Today Show this morning, addresses the subject of Latinos, the economy and immigration at 11:30 am at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, and tonight at 9:20 goes on KCAL's "Ask the Mayor" segment. As expected, Juror V-7304 was
excused during voir dire on Tuesday.
♦ Chinese in L.A.
don't care if their favorite restaurants get a C grade from the health inspector—they go anyway, the Times says in today's Column One. But hospital visits for food poisoning are down 13% since the grading system began seven years ago.
♦ Today's Daily News
corrects yesterday's story in which Fleishman-Hillard Chief Financial Officer Frederic Rohlfing said he believed some agency employees were reimbursed for political contributions. He only has "suspicions."
♦ New Daily News managing editor Melissa Lalum guests on KPCC's
Talk of the City with Kitty Felde in the 2 pm hour. Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta is also on. Later at 6:30 pm, Sandra Tsing Loh talks about her new one-woman show "Mother on Fire" on KCET's
Life & Times.
♦ Writer-about-town Hilary de Vries' novel
So 5 Minutes ago has been optioned by Touchstone for a 'Sex and the City'-meets-'Entourage' comedy series for UPN to be produced by Warren Littlefield, the former president of NBC Entertainment,
Page Six says.
♦ The Cooper Arms condo building in Long Beach has been invaded by
10,000 Vaux's swifts, the Press-Telegram's Tim Grobaty writes.
And from the world of body checks and high sticks...
You don't see this very often from baseball or basketball players. Adam Deadmarsh, forced to retire from the L.A. Kings because of concussions that rendered him unable to skate, phoned up the operator of the LetsGoKings website to leave a message for the local hockey faithful: "Thank you for your support over the years I was there in LA. I truly love stepping on the ice there and playing. It was a lot of fun to play in front of the fans there at Staples Center, I will miss it and I want to thank them for all the memories." The Kings are planning a night to honor Deadmarsh. Unfortunately, the guy brought in to be this year's star, Jeremy Roenick, is shelved with his eleventh on-ice concussion. Meanwhile, on Tuesday the Kings squeezed an apology out of their own Sean Avery for insulting French-Canadian players in the NHL.
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