Weekend shorts

Two teens who set Friday's Hollywood Hills fire were released to their parents and flown home to Illinois, but could be required to appear here in court later. LAT
Reality of Proposition 36: Nearly half of drug offenders diverted from the criminal system fail to complete rehab, and more than a quarter never even show. LAT
The city of Maywood has become a "haven for misfit cops" from other departments, a Times investigation says.
Tensions between Mayor Villaraigosa and the City Council are growing and may become worse when he unveils his budget later this month, say the Times' City Hall reporters.
Novelist and poet Marcos M. Villatoro's Van Nuys home may be condemned for a new LAUSD school and he's not happy about it.
Blogdowntown picks up an L.A. architecture guide book with maps he calls the worst ever — "fascinatingly awful...simply incomprehensible."
The LA Weekly's Marc Cooper hoped the LAT's front-page Sunday feature bemoaning the salaries demanded by good servants was an April Fool's joke. No such luck.
Vanity Fair contributing editor Howard Blum, author of a forthcoming book on the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, has an Op-Ed piece in the NYT on spending 17 hours in jail after a traffic stop.