Good morning -- here's what's happening 4.15.08
It's April 15 and the tax man cometh. Unless you file for an extension. Need a post office that stays open late tonight? The answer at (800) ASK-USPS. More tips and resources for procrastinators last-minute tax filers right here.
Speaking of money, that's exactly what Antonio Villaraigosa wants, lots of it, to put 1,000 more police officers on L.A.'s streets. How, exactly? With a 38% trash rate hike, for starters. And maybe a sales tax increase. And that's on top of the DWP hike already on the table. Just how deep into your pockets does the city want to reach? Our man in City Hall, David Zahniser, has the details.
There's a cancer-causing chemical in the air in Riverside, and the South Coast AQMD thinks it's coming from giant piles of clinker dust from a nearby cement plant. More from Janet Wilson.
More mayhem leaves two men dead in East L.A., Francisco Vara-Orta reports.
Listing prices down $130K from their peak. LA Land
A famous freedom fighter joins the cause in Little Saigon and protests a newspaper accused of communist leanings. My-Thuan Tran explains.
Northwest and Delta plan to merge, a move that won't affect us here in SoCal, at least not directly since the two carriers only account for a combined 11% of the market at LAX. But you might see some long-term effects on the airline industry, and we're not talking cheaper flights or better service. Peter Pae has the details.
Her daughter did it! That's the last-minute shift in the defense of one of the two 70-something women charged with taking out big insurance policies on homeless men, then killing them. Victoria Kim is following the trial.
Another high-profile court drama is coming to town -- the tax evasion trial of Joe Francis, of "Girls Gone Wild" infamy fame. Associated Press via L.A. Times.
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