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  • Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles has the only Planned Parenthood-funded family planning clinic in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The program has its opponents, but the school's chief nurse says "90 percent of the time, abstinence just isn't working for them."
  • It's a regular event for TV critics to gather in Los Angeles for press conferences with networks and cable companies. But this year, top executives won't hold question and answer sessions.
  • Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been talking tough in his bid to take control of the city's large, troubled school district. Such a takeover could put Villaraigosa at odds with the teachers' union, a group he once served as a labor organizer.
  • Lyle and Erik Menendez have been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole since they were convicted of killing their parents.
  • Sen. Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, shares his thoughts on the shooting at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.
  • In Texas, a memorial service is planned Thursday for Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia. They were killed in their home last weekend, just months after an assistant district attorney was killed outside the courthouse. The incident has shaken the community's sense of safety.
  • Author Ruth Ware's new thriller takes place at a bachelorette party in an isolated English country house. The book blends the creepy voyeurism of a Scream movie with the setting of a Christie novel.
  • Jeanne Theoharis' new book re-examines civil rights history and the way it's been manipulated. "It is used to make us feel good about ourselves, to make us feel good about our progress," she says.
  • Her first story collection in 15 years is called Days of Awe, and it covers everything from a chat room for bird lovers, to a summit on genocide, to a superstore where someone's abandoned a baby.
  • Etaf Rum's new novel draws from her own experiences of arranged marriage and early motherhood in the close-knit Palestinian American community where she grew up — and which she eventually left.
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