Mayor affair still making waves

An effort by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to tightly control a press conference and put his affair with a Telemundo reporter behind him backfired Friday when a port police officer protecting the mayor shoved a Spanish-language reporter against a steel container. Rachel Uranga in the Daily News.

It was the first public appearance for the mayor since Telemundo announced late Thursday that it was suspending Mirthala Salinas for two months without pay for doing lead-ins to news stories about the mayor's breakup with his wife while Salinas was dating him.

Three of her superiors were also punished for allowing her to continue reporting on the mayor.

"I am not going to comment or speculate on the decision of Telemundo or their investigation," Villaraigosa told a crowd of more than a dozen reporters and news cameras at a press conference on port cleanup programs.