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- County Supervisors pay a student worker to peel the labels off bottles of water and replace them with a customized county label so that Arrowhead won't get free publicity when a Supe takes a sip on TV. Seriously, apparently. LAT
- Police and the mother of Adrianna Bachan, 18, put out a plea for help to identify the hit-and-run driver who killed the USC student on Sunday night. LAT, Witness LA
- After reading news stories about her attack while jogging, Emily McDivitt of Van Nuys called Sue Doyle at the Daily News to share her story "in hopes it could inspire other victims to fight back." DN
- Councilman Herb Wesson's proposal to extend the term limits for LAPD chief William Bratton "is understandable but wrong" given the city's history — and the Police Protective League's suggestion to elect the chief "is cynical and corrupt," says a Times editorial.
- Joel Grover and Matt Goldberg of KNBC won an Investigative Reporters and Editors award for "Contaminated Water," an eight-month investigation that found high lead levels in LAUSD water fountains and janitors falsifying records to say they had flushed fountains daily to protect children from lead exposure. Voice of San Diego also took home an online award. IRE
- Spinka sect rabbi Moshe Zigelman, one of two co-conspirators who pleaded guilty last June in a tax fraud and money laundering scheme, was sentenced in federal district court to 24 months in prison. Jewish Journal
More after the jump, including new faces at KTLA, a new county counsel and my appearance with Gustavo Arellano on KPFK.
- Anne Thompson blogs the architecture of her meetings at publishing offices in New York. Variety
- Raising questions about FiledByAuthor, a website that has cataloged bio information on about 1.8 million authors into individual pages, whether they want to be there or not. Jacket Copy
- New community meetings start this week on the revised Olympic-Pico traffic plan. LAT, Streetsblog
- The Board of Supervisors is expected to appoint chief deputy public defender Robert Kalunian as acting county counsel. LAT
- Outfest has named Kirsten Schaffer as its executive director in a surprise shake-up in leadership. Greg in Hollywood
- The Santa Monica Daily Press has redesigned its website to make stories available by mouse click; no more PDF files. SMDP
- KTLA Channel 5 has a new morning anchor—Megan Henderson, hired from Dallas—and a new reporter in Jason Martinez, who joins from Fresno's KFSN. SoCalMediaScoop, Media Moves
- The Franklin Avenue bloggers announce the conception of a second baby blogger. FA
- LA Observed contributor Cari Beauchamp guests with Patt Morrrison on KPCC this afternoon to talk about her new biography of Joseph P. Kennedy. Local TV commercial legend Cal Worthington also talks about car sales. And I am on Gustavo Arellano's show on KPFK at 4 p.m. talking about the closure of CityBeat and other local media changes.