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From the LA Times:

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School's Out Too Early for 420 Kids on 2 Charter Campuses
L.A. County Board of Education cites financial problems caused by rapid growth. For some students, it's the second closure of the year.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-charter16oct16,1,3412526.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Flu Shot Resupply Is 6-8 Weeks Away
The CDC will send additional doses for people at highest risk, but amounts and distribution plans are still unknown.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-flu16oct16,1,3654952.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Disclosure Rule Suggested for L.A. Panelists
The Ethics Commission wants officials to report political fundraising in the year before being appointed, but rejects a ban on taking city posts.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ethics16oct16,1,3297509.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Group Shows Little for Grant
An L.A. foundation that received $221,000 for a museum honoring King and Chavez accounts for only 16% of the money, a state official says.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-audit16oct16,1,5869468.story?coll=la-headlines-california

D.A. Might Retry 3 Rampart Officers
The state high court lets stand a dismissal of their convictions based on a judge's admitted error.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rampart16oct16,1,7471171.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Voter Sign-Up Deadline Nears
The deadline for registering to vote in the Nov. 2 election is 4:30 p.m. Monday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-register16oct16,1,6069663.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Motion on Port Deal Delayed
Councilmen Antonio Villaraigosa and Jack Weiss submitted a proposal Friday to have the Los Angeles City Council scrutinize a $540,000 consulting deal awarded to former port Executive Director Larry Keller.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-keller16oct16,1,2117860.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Texas Official to Oversee L.A. Housing Agency
Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn has named the former head of the El Paso housing authority to head the city's troubled Housing Authority.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-housing16oct16,1,6745680.story?coll=la-headlines-california

First of two articles on LAPD shootings
Investigating Their Own
LAPD shooting reports often leave out important facts that cast doubt on officers' conduct.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shooting17oct17,1,6851502.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Under the Radar, HIV Worsens
The epidemic is sinking on the public health agenda despite 40,000 cases diagnosed a year.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-aids16oct16,1,2223664.story?coll=la-home-headlines

VOICES / A FORUM FOR COMMUNITY ISSUES
Closing Trauma Unit Would Be a Tragedy
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-vo-klieman16oct16,1,3838213.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

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From the Daily News:

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L.A. hit hard by West Nile virus
As the West Nile virus season winds down, health experts say the mosquito-borne disease caused far more serious health problems than initially expected, especially among an alarming number of healthy, young and middle-age adults.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2471295,00.html

MTA's wheels of fortune roll
New longer, cleaner bus hits Orange Line
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471091,00.html

After-school program marks 16 years
L.A.'s BEST celebrated its 16th anniversary Friday as a nationwide model for after-school programs with its expansion to seven more schools, including three in the San Fernando Valley.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471170,00.html

Group takes stand against airport plan
Key opponents of Mayor James Hahn's $11 billion modernization of Los Angeles International Airport challenged the legal basis for the City Council approving the full plan when there is only the intention to go forward with a portion of it at this time.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471186,00.html

Council urged to review award of Keller pact
The political firestorm over a $540,000 three-year consulting contract awarded to the general manager of the Port of Los Angeles -- who recently quit under pressure -- heated up Friday with Mayor James Hahn defending his Harbor Commission's actions against intensified criticism.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471092,00.html

Commission levies fines over campaign finance errors
In a simmering dispute over whether to penalize apparently inadvertent campaign financing mistakes, a sharply divided Los Angeles Ethics Commission assessed more than $11,000 in fines Friday in several cases, including one involving Controller Laura Chick.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471146,00.html

Measure proposes DNA database
RICHMOND -- Buried in a nondescript office park in this East Bay suburb of San Francisco lies the high-tech future of law enforcement.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471162,00.html

Panel: 'Get tough' programs for teens don't work
WASHINGTON -- Boot camps and other "get tough" programs for adolescents do not prevent criminal behavior, as intended, and may make the problem even worse, an expert panel concluded Friday.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471188,00.html

Security chief turns in 2 guns, SUV
The LAPD's civilian homeland security chief has surrendered two department-issued handguns and his emergency-equipped SUV because of the controversy over the discovery of a loaded pistol in his carry-on bag at LAX, officials said Friday.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471101,00.html

Students are giving back in gratitude
To them, project is 'the one way out'
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471178,00.html

They're hitting the streets
53 new officers assume initial duties with LAPD
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2471323,00.html

Tenants may lose their rent subsidies
Authorities inspecting complex in A.V. find variety of violations
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20943%257E2470986,00.html

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From other sources:

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From Senator Cedillo
Immigrant Rights March & Rally - Saturday, 10/16/04
http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/servlet/gov.ca.senate.democrats.pub.members.memDisplayPress?district=sd22&ID=2444