LAX safer today

Los Angeles International Airport remains a terrorist target, but security has "improved significantly" with help from $1.6 billion worth of improvements made over the past decade, according to a report released Wednesday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Art Marroquin in the Daily News.

The 162-page study by a blue-ribbon panel of aviation, homeland security and law enforcement experts assembled by Villaraigosa found further enhancements should be made at the nation's third-busiest airport, including improved coordination between LAX's police force and the Los Angeles Police Department.