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From the LA Times:

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Wetter Winter May Lie Ahead, but Drought's Impact to Linger
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted Tuesday that Southern California could be in store for higher-than-average rainfall in the next few months, but experts agreed that any extra precipitation would be insufficient to reverse the effects of a six-year drought.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rains27oct27,1,3571117.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Bratton and Baca Push Tax Increase
If voters pass Measure A to put more officers on streets, officials promise to cut crime in half.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-measurea27oct27,1,4173706.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Port Chief Had Fiscal Ties to Firm
Then-official wooed the co-owner of his home to L.A. terminal. Council will review his $540,000 consulting contract with agency.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-port27oct27,1,951946.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Building in Santa Monicas Restricted
County supervisors approve an ordinance making it more difficult to develop ridgelines. Foes say it will hurt many landowners.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ridge27oct27,1,2592660.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Survey Finds Gains, Losses in Child Welfare
Los Angeles County has made significant progress in reducing teen births and child poverty levels and in boosting childhood immunizations, but troubling geographic and ethnic inequalities in children's welfare persist, a new study has found.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-children27oct27,1,967033.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Councilman Seeks Probe of Reports on Officer Shootings
Weiss wants explanation for why key evidence is not always given to the L.A. Police Commission.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shootings27oct27,1,7673624.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Pension Fund Move Could Be Costly
The sell-off of an L.A. employee fund to avoid a conflict of interest may cost up to $3 million.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pension27oct27,1,5369427.story?coll=la-headlines-california

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From the Daily News:

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Traffic efforts stalled
More roads, mass transit are needed
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2493716,00.html

Heroes brave infernos
Firefighter dives into window to save woman
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493868,00.html

City will review Keller pact
Job seen too close to pay-to-play suspicions
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493523,00.html

Flash flood watch remains in effect or else
A flash flood watch is in effect through 6 p.m. today as the second powerful Alaskan storm of the season began to sweep across Southern California on Tuesday, bringing with it heavy rain, high winds and chilly temperatures.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493895,00.html

Fleeing inmate caught
VALENCIA -- A maximum-security inmate being treated at a local hospital escaped Tuesday and attacked a resident before being recaptured at the victim's home about an hour later, authorities said.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493782,00.html

Budget adds 69 LAPD officers
Los Angeles police commissioners Tuesday approved an LAPD budget for 2005-06 that would hire 69 police officers and 225 civilian employees and replace three aging helicopters -- but police officials admitted that the budget is more of a wish list than a likelihood.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493589,00.html

Registration, poll workers set records in L.A. County
Stage set for big voter turnout
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493583,00.html

3 schools OK'd at Ambassador
A split Los Angeles Unified School District board voted Tuesday to clear the way for construction of three schools on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, dismissing a request to consider alternatives to preserve more of the historic structure.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493530,00.html

Chick gives tips on getting panel posts
Greeting about 100 women and minorities at a City Hall reception, Controller Laura Chick on Tuesday suggested how they could become members of one of the city's commissions.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493631,00.html

Hilltop protection plan OK'd
Homeowners fear lower property values
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493577,00.html

Panel told prognosis grim for ailing trauma centers
California's trauma care system lurches from crisis to crisis with patchwork funding and needs statewide planning and a permanent place in the budget if it is to survive, experts told a joint state hearing Tuesday.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493625,00.html

Volatile chemical found in college lab, destroyed
Three jars of an extremely volatile chemical, one banned from classrooms years ago, were detonated Tuesday after their discovery in a routine Fire Department inspection of a science lab at The Master's College, county fire officials said.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2493596,00.html

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From other sources:

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From the LAPD
New Hollenbeck Police Station Plan
http://lapdonline.org/press_releases/2004/10/pr04527.htm

From Senator Feinstein
Statement of Senator Dianne Feinstein on Landmark California Water Legislation Becoming Law
http://www.senate.gov/~feinstein/04Releases/r-calfedsigned.htm