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Friday short stack:
- An LAPD officer was stabbed last night in Wilmington and is in stable condition. The suspect was shot and killed. LAT, Daily Breeze
- An AEG official threatened to "reevaluate" if the Legislature doesn't pass a bill shielding Farmers Field from lawsuit challenges this session. LAT
- City Attorney Carmen Trutanich doesn't want digital signs on the Santa Monica buses that pass through Los Angeles. Ban Billboard Blight
- With its proximity to freeways, industrial sites and shipping corridors, activists say the geography of Boyle Heights brings a disproportionate health burden to residents. Newsdesk.org
- What Sunset Junction is a junction of and more history. KCET
- Gawker on the LAT's James Rainey as a media critic: "Not a particularly memorable writer, but he does a fair job." Gawker
- Ron Artest has a hearing in court today on his request to change his name to Metta World Peace, and he also wants to change his Lakers jersey number to 70. Yahoo, wires
- The eastbound 105 Freeway will be closed overnight from Imperial Highway near LAX to the 405 for a film shoot, and again for much of Sunday. Breeze wires
- Today's "Fresh Air" will re-run a 1981 interview with songwriter Jerry Leiber. NPR