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San Diego mayor Bob Filner is expected to resign as part of a lawsuit settlement deal — he was "seen Wednesday night loading boxes into an SUV parked outside City Hall...apparently after saying farewell to his staff and cleaning out his office." The City Council will vote on a settlement in private on Friday. LAT, Voice of San Diego, U-T, AP
Mayor Garcetti and other city officials will hold an 11:30 news conference at City Hall to announce a deal that cuts back and delays a scheduled raise for DWP workers. "I'm pleased that we reached an agreement that pushes forward with DWP reform. I look forward to joining with the Council President and the City Council to announce further details on Thursday," Garcetti said last night. LAT, KPCC, DN
For the first time, the DWP board will telecast its meetings in the Owens Valley and allow participation from the utility's Bishop administrative office.
The City Council backed a plan to explore a $3 billion bond proposal to fix 8,700 lane miles of street, or about one-third of Los Angeles’ roadways. DN, LA Weekly
The FBI served new subpoenas on the Central Basin Municipal Water District this month, expanding a corruption investigation that began with a raid on state Sen. Ronald S. Calderon's office in June. LAT
Arianna Huffington said the Huffington Post will finally discontinue anonymous comments. "Trolls are just getting more and more aggressive and uglier and I just came from London where there are rape and death threats...I feel that freedom of expression is given to people who stand up for what they say and not hiding behind anonymity." Gigaom
Aaron Sorkin said the HuffPost helps power "a genuinely damaging force in our culture." Mother Jones
Nikki Finke would neither confirm not deny a report that she recently told Deadline staffers that she would be leaving soon. Defamer, BuzzFeed
"The Cuckoo's Calling" by Robert Galbraith is the top selling hardcover fiction book in Southern California independent bookstores. "Zealot" remains the top seller in nonfiction. More bestsellers
Adult-film studios across the San Fernando Valley were asked to halt production Wednesday after a performer tested positive for HIV, a trade group for the industry announced. DN, LA Weekly
NBC4 on Sunday will re-air the edition of "Meet The Press" that aired on August 25, 1963, featuring interviews with Martin Luther King, Jr. and NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins. It goes on here at 9 a.m. Video clip
An LA Times summer intern writes about her experiences in the newsroom. BusinessJournalism.org
Disney recently released footage from a new documentary about the history of the Imagineering division. Video preview. Los Angeles
Brooks Barnes of the New York Times Los Angeles bureau writes a Travel story about being a gay man going back home to Montana with his partner. NYT
In a reversal of past decisions, a federal appeals court decided Wednesday that California police officers may be protected by the 1st Amendment when they report corruption and misconduct within their departments. LAT
Sheriff Lee Baca is facing a rocky road to re-election in 2014, says Raphael Sonenshein. Jewish Journal
A California judge Wednesday tentatively entered a $27.7 million judgment for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in its 17-year-old lawsuit against a Parsons-Dillingham joint venture, saying Parsons excessively billed MTA for overhead during the construction of the city's Metro Red Line subway decades ago. Law360
State Supreme Court to decide LA charter school case. DN
The documentary "Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride" is getting a run at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills starting Aug. 30. Trailer
Wall Street Journal writer Jason Gay gins up a story that concerns about Yasiel Puig's maturity on and off the field are just the result of some media "madness." WSJ
The sunsets in Tuolumne Meadows are often colorful, but last night's thunderstorm provided an additional bonus. pic.twitter.com/1qSgKiGMAe
— Yosemite National Pk (@YosemiteNPS) August 21, 2013
