• Hellish travel nightmares may be curtailed by long overdue amendments to the Passenger Bill of Rights, such as limits to how long airlines can hold passengers grounded on the tarmac and fairer refunds for lost baggage. [KABC]
• Massive $4.1-billion modernization construction project at LAX will create a projected 39,900 jobs and generate $6.9 billion in economic activity. [LATimes]
• A year after Deepwater Horizon explosion and Gulf oil spill, the nation’s worst environmental disaster, Congress hasn’t passed any new safety laws on offshore drilling. [HuffPo]
• Poor Rebecca Black is still getting death threats saying she’ll be killed if “Friday” isn’t taken off the internet. [PE]
• The guidos and guidettes will reportedly take on the motherland, specifically Florence, for “Jersey Shore” Season 4. [TMZ]

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• You guys, Kobe Bryant is in backpedal mode and really sorry for calling a ref a “f%#$ing f&@got”; so sorry he’s appealing the $100,000 fine and explained, “what I said last night should not be taken literally.”[KTLA][TMZ]
• LAPD is upping the ante on catching speeding drivers with new, more precise technology in the form of goggles and guns. [KABC]
• Can you hear me now? Meet the Verizon guy. He is a human being just like you and me and now he’s the face of Big Red. [HuffPo]
• BREAKING: Kimora Lee Simmons apparently got on the Coachella diet and lost 25lbs by “not eating.” She looks so good when she’s not bloated. [PE]
• Hey, forthcoming SoCal heatwave, can we be friends? (Read: tan me?) [LATimes]

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• After having multiple homes foreclosed on and having to star in Drive Angry, we think Nicolas Cage kind of deserves the rare $1 million comic book stolen from him in 2000 back from the man who just found it. [KTLA]
• Read all about President Obama’s speculated budget proposal to reduce the nation’s deficit and Paul Ryan’s “Draconian” program cuts… [HuffPo]
• Nicki Minaj steps in after Enrique Iglesias jumps ship as the opener for Britney Spears’ upcoming tour. [TMZ]
• Dear America: your favorite guidos and guidettes will reportedly each earn at least $100,000 per episode for “Jersey Shore” Season 4. [PE]
• Catastrophe continues as three powerful aftershocks of 7.1, 6.0, and 5.6 magnitudes strike Japan causing landslides, power outages, further radiation leakage, and few fatalities. [LATimes]

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• Another day, another SoCal weed bust: cops seize over 700 weed plants from an upscale home in which every room was being used to grow “high-end marijuana” [KTLA]
• It’s probably a good idea to sign up for L.A. County’s emergency alerts for official notifications on evacuations and news in a natural disaster [LAT]
• Two CA skydivers, one being a highly experienced instructor, collide mid-air, fall to their deaths [KABC]
• Lindsay Lohan insists she had not been drinking when she was photographed Wednesday night in NYC eating pavement… as she was walking out of a bar… [TMZ]
• Rutgers University pays Snooki $32,000 for two Q&A appearances, more than what Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison will earn to speak at their commencement [PE]

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• Japan’s nuclear crisis worsens, severity raised from Level 4 to Level 5 on a seven-level worldwide scale [HuffPo]
• Several kids get sick at school after eating cocaine their elementary school classmate brought to school [KTLA]
• Bummer: this nice weather we’ve been having is such a tease because going to be cold and wet all weekend [LATimes]
• We don’t condone telling a 13-year-old to “go cut herself and die” like Rebecca Black’s hate mail, but “Friday” is still probably the biggest musical abomination I’ve ever had the privilege of hearing [TMZ]
• The Tupac biopic is finally casting for the lead role so I guess this means you’ll be seeing me on the big screen soon at a theater near you! [PE]

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• Japan’s nuclear crisis worsens, severity raised from Level 4 to Level 5 on a seven-level worldwide scale [HuffPo]
• Several kids get sick at school after eating cocaine their elementary school classmate brought to school [KTLA]
• Bummer: this nice weather we’ve been having is such a tease because going to be cold and wet all weekend [LATimes]
• We don’t condone telling a 13-year-old to “go cut herself and die” like Rebecca Black’s hate mail, but “Friday” is still probably the biggest musical abomination I’ve ever had the privilege of hearing [TMZ]
• The Tupac biopic is finally casting for the lead role so I guess this means you’ll be seeing me on the big screen soon at a theater near you! [PE]

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• Japan’s nuclear crisis worsens, severity raised from Level 4 to Level 5 on a seven-level worldwide scale [HuffPo]
• Several kids get sick at school after eating cocaine their elementary school classmate brought to school [KTLA]
• Bummer: this nice weather we’ve been having is such a tease because going to be cold and wet all weekend [LATimes]
• We don’t condone telling a 13-year-old to “go cut herself and die” like Rebecca Black’s hate mail, but “Friday” is still probably the biggest musical abomination I’ve ever had the privilege of hearing [TMZ]
• The Tupac biopic is finally casting for the lead role so I guess this means you’ll be seeing me on the big screen soon at a theater near you! [PE]

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• Biologists find a dangerous neurotoxin in samples of dead fish from Redondo Beach’s King Harbor that may be linked to the massive die-off [KTLA]
• Is there an Usher sex tape made with ex-wife Tameka Foster being shopped around town? [TMZ]
• Japan disaster aftermath: death toll expected to be in tens of thousands, two hydrogen explosions at nuclear plant release radiation as workers try to prevent another, half a million people displaced [LATimes]
• iPhones on AT&T and Verizon’s networks botch daylight savings time change, either not changing at all or moving back one hour instead of ahead [KABC]
• Battle: Los Angeles wins the weekend box office like a summer blockbuster while Red Riding Hood and others score underwhelming sales [HuffPo]

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• Kadafi launches first offensive counterattack in rebel-controlled eastern region of Libya at Port Berga, seizes key oil facility for Sirte Oil Co. and air base [LATimes]
• Some crafty thieves made off with $3 million in jewels from a jewelry store they tunneled their way into in downtown L.A. [KTLA]
• Facebook acquires Beluga, a mobile group messaging app developer that enables users to create private mobile chat rooms and more [IFB]
• Katie Holmes is suing Star magazine for libel seeking $50 million in damages after it ran a cover story suggesting she’s a drug addict [PE]
• After allegedly making a death threat, Brooke Mueller gets a restraining order against Charlie Sheen, has authorities remove their children from his home [TMZ]

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Chaos rages in Libya as Kadafi refuses to step down, uses war tactics against anti-government protesters and the country's diplomats resign [LATimes]
Somali pirates kill the four Americans held hostage on their hijacked boat in the Indian Ocean [KTLA]
Powerful 6.3 earthquake rocks [...]

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