Stadium Impacting Lucrative Conventions

More convention planners could follow the lead of a medical association that nixed plans to hold its yearly meeting in Los Angeles due to worries over the proposed construction of a football stadium, a councilman said Wednesday.

Topless in Venice

Protesters gathered in Venice Beach to give women and men equal rights -- to bathe topless.

"Free your boobies, free your mind!"

"Put the 'tit' back in 'Constitutional!' "

"Nobody likes tan lines!"

These were just some of the rallying cries that united the "Go Topless Day" protestors at the Venice Boardwalk yesterday afternoon.

They say the human body is a masterpiece and shouldn't be covered up, especially at the beach.

Protesters of both sexes patrolled Ocean Front Walk in Venice Beach Sunday morning calling for what they say is an unconstitutional exercise of gender discrimination.

Chargers Far From LA Move

It would take a miracle of biblical proportions for the San Diego Chargers to move to Los Angeles next year, in the eyes of the man in charge of finding the team a new stadium.

Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani said the team would not even consider a move to a temporary location if the city wasn't breaking ground on a new permanent stadium. And he believes Farmers Field, the proposed $1.2 billion football stadium in downtown Los Angeles, won't be close to that point by next year.

L.A. Sheriff's Department Investigated for Civil Rights Violations

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is being investigated for alleged "systemic" civil rights violations during routine traffic stops by trying to identify people who live in publicly subsidized housing, federal officials said Friday.

The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil investigation into the alleged discriminatory policing by the sheriff's deputies in the cities of Lancaster and Palmdale, both in the Mojave Desert's Antelope Valley, federal officials said.