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The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay about $30 million to settle 58 legal claims involving a former Miramonte Elementary School teacher accused of committing lewd acts on children. LAT, DN
The county Democratic Party last night endorsed City Council candidates Gil Cedillo, Curren Price and John Choi. But not in the mayoral race. KPCC
Revisiting the Owens Valley water and air issues linked to Los Angeles and the DWP. NPR
Mayor Villaraigosa is in New York for the United Nations Global Network on Safer Cities as a member of the Global Network Steering Committee.
After 20 years, the Glendale Gun Show will not longer be hosted at a city building. DN
U-T San Diego owner Doug Manchester said in a statement that "we have no partnership with Koch Industries or with the Koch brothers, and we don't anticipate any such arrangement." This in response to rumors that the Koch brothers and Manchester would align to buy the Los Angeles Times. Reuters
Register owner Aaron Kusnher's remark that he doesn't see it as a newspaper's mission to "afflict the comfortable" touched off OC Weekly editor Gustavo Arellano, who calls Kushner "a member of the comfortable class that doesn't like it when people say bad things about the comfortable." Navel Gazing
The Register is introducing three standalone weekly sections on local universities: UC Irvine on Mondays, Chapman University on Tuesdays, California State Fullerton on Wednesdays. OCR
Detroit TV reporter and former New York Times staffer in LA Charlie LeDuff is accused of fighting and urinating in the street after a St. Patrick’s Day bash on Sunday. “I don’t remember taking a leak,” he tells a TV reporter. “It’s no reason to get your head stomped.” Romenesko
MOCA is in talks for a possible partnership with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., a development that could cloud MOCA's potential acquisition by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The talks were initiated by MOCA board member and donor Eli Broad. NYT, LAT, CultureGrrl, WWLA
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to four men who allege they were molested by a pedophile priest in what Cardinal Roger Mahony has called the most troubling case of his tenure, a lawyer for the men said Tuesday. LAT, OCR
Scientific mystery in the ocean off Palos Verdes Peninsula: what has happened to the tons of DDT that were discharged between 1947 and 1971 by pesticide manufacturer Montrose Chemical Corp.? Recent testing has found the world's largest DDT deposit is mostly gone. Environmental Health News
The number of travelers between Los Angeles and many major world cities has fallen, according to two decades of data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. DN
Declining interest in 'Chicano Studies' reflects a Latino identify shift. KPCC (critiqued by Gustavo Arellano at OC Weekly)
Carpenter Avenue School in Studio City has found that as many as 90 students may be enrolled fraudulently. LAT
