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Readers, we have so much news this fine autumn morning:

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors enacted sweeping measures in hopes of curbing obesity and smoking, and cashing in on stimulus funds, but stopped at banning soda at county venues.

A psychiatrist told a Los Angeles County Superior Court that William Sadowski was insane when he killed an LAX police officer by dragging him with his own car about four years ago.

A relatively controversial statue unveiled in San Pedro but boxed away in storage ever since, has found a new home on the city's waterfront.

Poor Gardena and San Pedro high schools: The schools drew significantly less interest from charters or outside groups in running them under Los Angeles Unified School District's Public School Choice Plan than the other three dozen or so schools open under the pitch.

Check out these cute pictures of Special Olympics athletes playing at Mattel in El Segundo yesterday.

A South Bay-based firm won a $10 million contract with the European planemaker Airbus.

Mira Costa High's girl volleyball team lost again for the second time this season to Los Alamitos on Tuesday. See pictures.

Coming at ya, readers:

Lomita's City Council race has ended in a tie for the third seat, a relative rarity in local elections. Also, check out our post-election coverage.

Say goodbye to bikini-clad baristas in Torrance. The controversial Bikini Espresso is closing.

The family of a man killed in a shootout that also injured a sheriff's deputy this week in Lawndale said the incident could have been avoided had a parole agent arrested Juan Carlos Aguilar for drug possession earlier that day. Check out pictures of the aftermath.

John Bogert opines about a rite of passage -- school dances.

Trial has started for the former Torrance plastic surgeon accused of working while on disability and double-billing for procedures.

Los Angeles city leaders have approved $1.3 billion worth of construction contracts to expand the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX.

Several South Bay cities and agencies will get nearly $13 million for various projects from Los Angeles County, Supervisor Don Knabe announced in his state of the county speech Wednesday.

Two Mira Costa High School girl volleyball players are glamming up the usually inglorious middle blocker position.

Readers, heads up:

After hoards of cars clogged South Bay streets waiting for swine flu vaccinations Saturday, the Beach Cities Health District has canceled another clinic planned for next month in Redondo Beach.

Also, Los Angeles County has now established limits on who can get shots.

A pair of jetliners came within 100 feet of each other Sunday on Los Angeles International Airport's south airfield.

The Beacon House's 25-year Halloween tradition of building an elaborate haunted house in San Pedro has been canceled thanks to new city building regulations.

The District Attorney's Office has served search warrants at the home and business of Wilma Wilson, the owner of the Carson-based Peace and Joy battered women's shelter who is currently under investigation for allegations of misuse of public funds.

South Bay median home prices rose unexpectedly in September. Whoo hoo!

Sports just run in the family for Peninsula High volleyball player Nina Bjekovic, sister of Lakers player Sasha Vujacic, who starts his season tonight. See pictures of the brother-sister team.

Readers, let's roll:

A man was found dead with a single gunshot wound to his head in a Marina del Rey apartment Thursday.

Balloon Boy is safe, but remember Larry Walters, the San Pedro man who 27 years ago floated away on balloons tied to a lawn chair?

The man who killed an off-duty Los Angeles County police captain during an attempted robbery near Gardena was sentenced to death Thursday.

A 12-year-old boy accidentally killed himself while playing with a gun found kept in his Gardena apartment.

Longtime state legislator and Manhattan Beach resident Bob Beverly has died.

Did you duck and cover Thursday during the Great California ShakeOut like the folks at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center?

A Torrance acupuncturist will really stick it to you.

Narbonne and San Pedro High face off today on the football field.

Readers, let's end September with a bang:

Los Angeles County prepared Tuesday in wake of a tsunami warning resulting from a tidal wave that swept Samoa, while the Samoan community in Carson gathered to share information and organize a vigil for relatives affected back home.

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a $1.2 billion waterfront redevelopment plan early Wednesday, after about 500 people crowded the meeting room to sound off on the plan.

The unique Beach Cities Health District is apparently a model of the preventive health care envisioned in national health care reform plans.

Toyota Motor Corp., whose sales and marketing arm is based in Torrance, has announced plans to recall about 3.8 million late-model vehicles in the United States in fear that their floor mats could cause accelerator pedals to jam.

Manhattan Beach's famed dune will remain closed through the end of the year.

Stakeholders at a Wilmington elementary school have voted to change the institution's name to honor George De La Torre, a local businessman and philanthropist who died last year.

Talks continue in Carson over the fate of two mobile homes parks.

Readers, let's get this news party started:

Some Torrance residents are nearly croaking over the possibility of placing a whimsical frog statue recently donated to the city by a former mayor in a seaside park. Children might play on the bronze statue and hurt themselves!

Police are investigating a hit-and-run accident allegedly committed by an off-duty Torrance police officer over the weekend.

Los Angeles County is set to pay $305,000 to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought on by the family of a man who died at County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance after a hang-gliding accident two years ago.

San Pedro's Salvation Army Family Store has closed. You know it's a bad economy when even thrift stores are shutting down.

Public hearings over a proposed new public transit plan that could relieve South Bay traffic begin this week.

After three appearences at CIF semifinals in as many years, Palos Verdes High's girls tennis team is aiming for a title this year. Check out pictures.

Readers, let's hop to it:

A fire broke out at a Wilmington refinery this morning.

A loving and handy father brought a world wonder to his Redondo Beach daughter's backyard wedding. So sweet.

The family of a man shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies last month in Carson have filed suit against the agency.

Just as the city of Torrance nearly wraps up extensive roadwork to its namesake boulevard, it moves along to Crenshaw Boulevard.

Veteran newswoman Toni Sciacqua is the Daily Breeze's new editor. Why don't you follow her on Twitter, and wish her congratulations?

The latest bank robbers with cutesy names wanted by the FBI? The Bedtime Bandits, who use pillow cases when they steal from banks, including three in the South Bay.

Today's At Work column profiles a woman who runs a San Pedro construction business.

Make sure you check out the Breeze's Top 10 list of prep football teams.

Readers, without further ado:

Like much of the state, South Bay school districts improved on test scores and many exceeded goals, according to figures released Tuesday by the California Department of Education.

Speaking of which, Gardena's 156th Street Elementary School was one of 25 schools statewide to receive honors for their students' standardized test performance.

Prosecutors presented closing arguments Tuesday in the murder re-trial case of Cameron Brown, who is accused of killing his 4-year-old daughter by throwing her over a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff nine years ago.

Though he agrees that President Obama was lying in his health care speech last week, South Bay Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst was wrong. Rohrabacher was one of seven republicans who voted Tuesday to censure Wilson.

The Los Angeles County Health Services Department, an already indebted agency that oversees several South Bay clinics as well as Habor-UCLA Medical Center, will see a $71 million reduction in state funding this fiscal year.

Finally some good economy news: August showed the smallest decline in shipments passing through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach this year, figures released Tuesday show.

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Los Angeles County is developing a grading grading for day care centers in hopes of giving parents guidance on where to send their children. A voluntary pilot program has started in San Pedro and Wilmington.

Local Beatles fans flocked Wednesday to electronic stores to buy the latest offering from the Fab Four.

On the first day of school for the Los Angeles Unified School District, we check in with San Pedro High's new principal, who apparently has her plate full at the troubled campus.

Two South Bay beach cities are a little bit closer to a consolidated fire department.

Gardena city leaders have approved a new condo complex, but nixed a commercial development because it included a nail salon and tobacco shop.

Narbonne High School running back Melvin Davis starts his season Friday in memory of his friend, slain former player Dannie Farber. Check out pictures.

Readers, let's hit it:

Firefighters are still working to contain the wild fires. Make sure to check back to the Daily Breeze for updates throughout the day.

Recession-rocked California hospitals are asking state leaders for relief from seismic safety rules that could lead to closure if not met on time, but several South Bay hospitals are busy with reconstruction plans.

Los Angeles County residents could save up to 40 percent in prescription medicine costs under a program announced Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

A 62-year-old Hermosa Beach woman and her granddaughter both started their first day of classes Monday at Cal State Long Beach.

A Hawthorne man was shot to death after taking his niece and nephew to the Wilmington church, where his father was the pastor.

The Torrance City Council is set tonight to approve an $18 million purchase of a site for a new transit center.

A lawyer has accused Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. of Torrance of obstruction of justice.

Readers, let's get to the news:

A surprise donation to the South Coast Botanic Garden has caused a flap on the Hill. 

The Cash for Clunkers program has been a boon for car manufacturers and local new vehicle dealers, but others lower in the auto chain might have a different take on the federal stimulus program that ends today.

Speaking of it, we checked in with local dealers Sunday, the last weekend day of the program. Scroll through pictures too.

Cal State Dominguez Hills' ladies soccer team is shooting to replicate the success of their male counterparts.

Check out pictures of Hot Pedro Night's classic car cruise up Pacific Avenue.

A rise in complicated births -- likely attributed to obesity, later motherhood and more C-sections -- has prompted a local hospital to expand its neonatal intensive care unit for newborns.

Rep. Maxine Waters held her own town hall Saturday to discuss health care.

A terminally ill woman who served more than 25 years in prison for her role in killing an abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend could soon be released to her sisters in Carson, the governor announced last week.

Readers, let's get to it:

This is the creepiest story I've read in a long time: A Redondo Beach woman was attacked by a masked man wearing all black while she was in the shower.

Los Angeles Air Force Base honored more than 30 airmen recently back from year-long deployment in Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Check out pictures of the ceremony in El Segundo.
 
South Bay students overall performed well on the STAR exam, and more than half the state hit its testing goals, according to data released earlier this week. See how your kid's school did here.

County leaders have approved a deal to partner with the University of California to reopen Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital.

Hermosa Beach has won a small victory in its ongoing legal battle with Macpherson Oil.

Two former Palos Verdes Peninsula baseball stars are reunited in Tennessee, where they are playing for the Kingsport Mets in the rookie-level Appalachian League.

A small Palos Verdes Estates family-based toy company is folding.

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Darn kids -- oh, wait. Police believe a 44-year-old unemployed Torrance man is responsible for the recent rash of shootings of glass windows. Gary Finmark told his 78-year-old mom he drove around shooting out windows with an air rifle because he was bored.

Looks like Carson has a mall war on its hands: The new owners of the SouthBay Pavilion are thinking about adding a movie theater to the center, which would compete with the theater slated for Boulevards at South Bay, proposed to open in town in 2012.

Los Angeles County real estate values dropped for the first time in 13 years, but the South Bay saw mostly positive growth in assessments, according to an annual tax assessor's report released Thursday.

Some San Pedro residents are hoping to find a place in town to play horseshoes, a sport apparently undergoing a bit of a renaissance.

The raging obesity epidemic cost the county about $12 million in 2006 in health care costs and lost production, a report from the California Center for Public Health Advocacy reveals.

Check out pictures of Thursday's labor rally at the Toyota facility in Torrance.

Biz writer Muhammed El-Hasan paid $4.25 for a spot of tea at a new Wilmington brew house.

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Buying ammunition in Carson will require a thumbprint, name and address under terms of an ordinance approved earlier this week that affects just two stores in town.

Los Angeles Police Department officers patrolling the Michael Jackson memorial Tuesday ate $50,000 worth of boxed lunches from a high-end store 80 miles away. Subway sandwiches for the 3,500 cops would have cost $17,000, an outraged city controller calculated.

Police have linked a prison inmate through scientific evidence to robbery and sexual assault at a Gardena ice cream shop from the blood he allegedly dripped at the crime scene.

Installing solar permits in the South Bay could easier and cheaper as Los Angeles County and some individual cities start dropping permit fees.

A noontime women's soccer game brought a decidedly more feminine crowd Wednesday to Carson's Home Depot Center. Check out pictures of the Los Angeles Sol game, billed as Kids Day, drawing more than 30 groups of soccer moms and youth teams to the stadium.

Give El Segundo's Northrop Grumman a pat on the back for helping develop an astronaut escape system that NASA tested Wednesday and called a "complete success."

Angela Park, a Torrance High grad and Ladies Professional Golf Association standout has another shot at the U.S. Women's Open.

Readers, let's get to it:

Hawthorne police believe a registered sex offender tried to trade a lost dog for sex. Over at our Crime and Courts blog is some more information on this guy.

Sales tax will increase a half-cent to the dollar countywide tomorrow, when the voter approved Measure R goes into effect for 30 years.

The pieces comprising Manhattan Beach's long-awaited sculpture garden were installed around downtown Monday. Check out pictures of a few of the towering sculptures.

The capital murder trial of a man accused of killing a police captain during an early morning attempted robbery in 2004 began this week.

A last-minute compromise struck Monday between the Port of Los Angeles, a local ship builder and the Los Angeles Conservancy will allow a $96 million dredging project at the port to go forward.

Who knew that Japanese fast food chain Yoshinoya was based in Torrance? And its looking to open 13 new restaurants.

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A Redondo Beach police officer shot and wounded a man in Lawndale after what witnesses called a running gun battle between neighbors Saturday night.

Residents of the unincorporated Los Angeles County neighborhood of Wiseburn are miffed that a water company has apparently renigged on a deal that would have turned one of its vacant lots into a park.

A Carson resident took his third Manhattan Beach Grand Prix championship title Sunday. Miss the event? Check out pictures here and here and it was just like you were there.

The Manhattan Beach Brewing Co.,  likely the South Bay's oldest brewery, is going upscale later this summer.

Los Angeles International Airport passengers and employees will see some changes Tuesday, when the effects of Delta and Northwest airlines' merger leaves vacant space in Terminal 2.

A local restaurateur is opening his second new eatery in a year -- and will bring about 100 new jobs to Manhattan Beach.

New state fish consumption guidelines are stricter and more expansive than the traditional warning against avoiding white croaker caught off the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The rash of BB-gun shattered windows is still spreading across the South Bay.

Here's what's happening today, friends:

The Beacon Light Mission, a Christian homeless shelter in Wilmington, has raised more than $600,000 and won approval from the city to add a dorm for women, and thereby double its capacity.

The Port of Los Angeles' executive director projects weak growth to follow a few years of decline in the shipping industry.

The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors is set Tuesday to approve a proclamation decreeing the first week of March as No Cussing Week. WTF?

Presidential elections are so four months ago: Bring on local races! Tuesday is Election Day, so why don't you bone up on all the local issues and candidates in our catchall Election page.

Here's what's happening out there today:

Half a million single seniors in California don't earn enough to cover basic needs like food, rent and medicine, a new UCLA study. Los Angeles County seniors surpass the state's average, clocking 54 percent of singles not meeting the basics.

Members of the California Teachers Association gathered Tuesday at El Segundo High School to protest possible layoffs. Check out pictures here.
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Minutes after she was last seen in Redondo Beach, Cori Desmond tried to get into a closed bar but owners wouldn't let her in, said investigators, who still have no leads on the Torrance woman's death.

Narbonne High overtook San Pedro in a boys basketball face-off Tuesday -- see for yourself here.

And hey, did you know that the South Bay has a proud history of churning out pro basketball players?

Happy Monday, party people. Let's start your week off right:

All things Oscars here, and check out red carpet pictures from one of our staff photographers here.

Los Angeles County planners are considering a pitch for a boat valet service in Marina del Rey, where vessel owners could call ahead and have their boats dropped into the water from a storage unit extended over the water. Needless to say, residents are not happy about the proposed hulking structure.

Laws governing catering trucks are getting even tighter on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

What would it be like to hear after a lifetime spent deaf? A a risky procedure usually performed only on adults has suddenly broadened Torrance 5-year-old Miles Ganalon's senses -- and his world. Check out pictures of Miles.

The tow-truck company owned by Torrance Mayor Frank Scotto has been named in a lawsuit from a Rolling Hills Estates man alleging he was assaulted by one of Scotto's drivers.

Here's what's going on today:

Going beyond the usual food basket and collection plate donations, South Bay churches are doing their best to help parishioners desperate in the economy, including one congregation that will pay past-due electric bills for residents this weekend.

A group of Wilmington residents say an environmental study of a proposed truck expressway is flawed.

Los Angeles County will sue the state over delays in health and social services funding, supervisors decided Wednesday.

Banning High's boys soccer team earned a spot into the play-offs Wednesday, when it beat their San Pedro High counterparts, 1-0. Check out some pictures of the match here.