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From the LA Times:

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Race for Council Seat Goes Negative
Accusation, attack mail mark one candidate's campaign to replace Cindy Miscikowski.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-council4mar04,1,6845826.story?coll=la-home-left1

Campaigns Largely Funded by Those With City Contracts
Mayor candidates raise hundreds of thousands from developers, attorneys and unions.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-money4mar04,1,5646568.story?coll=la-home-left1

Voting for Mayor, Council
The election in the city of Los Angeles is Tuesday. The race for mayor has received the most attention, but eight City Council district races will also be decided.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-how4mar04,1,4307015.story?coll=la-home-left1

Judge Backs Nurses Over Staffing
Schwarzenegger lacked the authority to override a new law on patient ratios in hospitals, the court declares in a tentative ruling.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-nurses4mar04,1,3464499.story?coll=la-news-politics-california

Hahn Ad Sets Off Brawl on Airwaves
Five days before the Los Angeles election, Mayor James K. Hahn touched off an exchange of explosive campaign television ads Thursday with a spot slamming challengers Bob Hertzberg and Antonio Villaraigosa for seeking the early prison release of a drug trafficker.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mayor4mar04,1,1270459.story?coll=la-headlines-california

High Court Condemns Conduct of Prosecutor
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court, condemning a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney's conduct in a death penalty case, ruled Thursday that prosecutors should not intentionally tell different juries that two defendants committed the same crime when only one could have been responsible.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prosecute4mar04,1,1197051.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Panel Backs Plan to Curb Pollution at Port
Industry and regulatory representatives meet to address emissions from ships, trucks and trains.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-air4mar04,1,2619091.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Majority of L.A. 6th-Graders See Violence
Either as victims or witnesses, students are often left traumatized and schoolwork suffers.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-trauma4mar04,1,7489519.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Officers Shoot Suspect and a Deputy
Two members of the LAPD had responded to fellow lawman's call for help in Van Nuys.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shootout4mar04,1,6526143.story?coll=la-headlines-california

The television campaign
The top three candidates launched new television ads Thursday that, for the first time, take direct shots at their opponents. Mayor James K. Hahn criticizes both Bob Hertzberg and Antonio Villaraigosa for their records as state assemblymen. Villaraigosa takes on Hahn for "corruption in his administration." And Hertzberg dismisses Hahn's latest television ad as "another Jim Hahn excuse."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mayoradbox4mar04,1,5637431.story?coll=la-headlines-california

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From the Daily News:

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Mayor's race gets nasty
Attack ads air as campaign hits final weekend
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2743602,00.html

Business stinks, neighbors say
Slaughterhouse operator fights to stay in Valley
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2743457,00.html

14 ground vehicles taken off road by LAX checkers
A law-enforcement sting targeting unsafe commercial vehicles and faulty permits at LAX resulted in 14 shuttles, taxis or limousines being taken off the road Thursday, as well as numerous tickets, airport officials reported.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2743721,00.html

Ex-Taft teacher among arrested
391 jailed, linked to child sex offenses
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2743800,00.html

More than 70 L.A. roads closed, causing backups
With key canyon shortcuts still closed because of storm damage, freeway congestion has worsened this week, creating nightmare commutes for motorists in San Fernando Valley and North Los Angeles County.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2743511,00.html

Vandals tampering with signs in city election
GLENDALE -- Candidates for the city's April 5 election are reporting that hundreds of lawn signs are being stolen or moved to illegal locations, and officials warned Thursday that such tampering must stop.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2743473,00.html

LAPD detectives cleared in fatal salon shooting
Three police detectives have been cleared of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of two robbery suspects in 2003, and no handguns were found on the suspects despite the officers' claims of seeing the weapons, officials said.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2743458,00.html

State may probe charter schools
SACRAMENTO -- Six months after the state's largest charter school collapsed amid a state investigation into its finances, education officials are poised to probe a Pasadena-based charter that serves 20,000 students at 60 centers throughout the state for similar financial issues.
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E2743627,00.html

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From other sources:

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From the Department of Homeland Security
Remarks by the President at the Swearing-In Ceremony of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/speech/speech_0244.xml