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From the LA Times:

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Gov. Signs Bills for Air, Coast
Two dozen measures he enacts will extend smog checks, limit fishing and create a conservancy to protect the Sierra, among other things.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold24sep24,1,4739301.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Hawthorne Hospital to Shut Doors
Robert F. Kennedy Medical Center cites financial problems for closure Dec. 31. It marks the loss of the sixth ER in L.A. County this year.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hospital24sep24,1,1149861.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Screeners Find Gun in Bag of Antiterror Chief
The LAPD's John Miller says he forgot about the weapon. Bratton calls incident embarrassing.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miller24sep24,1,7688426.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Divergent Groups Remain Opposed to Ambassador Plan
Some want the hotel razed for K-12 school; others would like to see more of it preserved.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ambassador24sep24,1,7470117.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Board's Hospital Meetings Probed
D.A. reacts to concerns that supervisors may have violated the open meeting law when they discussed closing trauma unit at King/Drew.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kingdrew24sep24,1,6467470.story?coll=la-headlines-california

MTA to Borrow $1.1Billion to Speed Up Delayed Projects
Hit hard by state budget cutbacks, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to borrow more than $1.1 billion over the next 10 years to jump-start freeway and rail projects throughout Los Angeles County.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mta24sep24,1,3196195.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Church Can't Join Suit to Fight Abuse Law
A federal judge rejected a plea Thursday by the Los Angeles Archdiocese to join a constitutional challenge to the state law allowing hundreds of people to sue the Roman Catholic Church for decades-old child molestation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-priest24sep24,1,3878154.story?coll=la-headlines-california

New Guidelines Will Address Homelessness
A Los Angeles County task force Thursday approved a broad set of guidelines intended to move an estimated 80,000 homeless people off the streets and into housing within 10 years.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless24sep24,1,2006426.story?coll=la-headlines-california

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From the Daily News:

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Gridlock for HOV lanes?
Transit experts concerned about impact of new hybrid-vehicle law
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2422963,00.html

Phone rates will go higher
Firm can charge rivals 19% more or this combo
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422700,00.html

LAPD official sets off alert
Terrorism czar has gun at LAX or this combo
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422947,00.html

Nuez relents on licenses
Speaker says he'd allow special designation
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422610,00.html

Plating firm charged in pollution crackdown
An Atwater Village metal-plating company was charged Thursday with polluting groundwater with chromium 6 -- the first case in a new crackdown on firms suspected of tainting the aquifer supplying the city's drinking water.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422847,00.html

Court refuses to halt work on busway project
The state Supreme Court on Thursday refused to overturn a lower-court order that requires the MTA to do a new environmental study on the San Fernando Valley Orange Line busway and also turned down a separate request by opponents to halt construction of the project.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422959,00.html

California locks up most '3-strikers'
WASHINGTON -- California imprisons more felons under its "three strikes, you're out" law than almost every other three-strikes state combined, a report by an advocacy group found Thursday.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2423082,00.html

Trauma-center process probed
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday that it is investigating whether county supervisors broke the state's open meeting law by reaching a decision behind closed doors to close a South Los Angeles hospital's trauma center.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2422588,00.html

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From other sources:

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From Mayor Hahn
Mayor Hahn Announces General Services Department Wins Award
http://www.lacity.org/mayor/myrpress/mayormyrpress27423526_09232004.pdf

From Senator Feinstein
Senator Feinstein Calls for Careful Congressional Oversight of the Patriot Act
http://www.senate.gov/~feinstein/04Releases/r-patriotact-hrg.htm