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from the LATimes:Prosecutors have decided not to charge two El Monte Police Department officers who kicked a car-chase suspect in the head and hit his arm with a flashlight as he was lying on the ground at the end of a televised high-speed pursuit, saying the officers had used “reasonable” force. - SoCalConnected

from LAist: Beginning Friday, Time Warner Cable customers may not have access to their favorite shows like the Simpsons, Glee, Fringe and even the Sugar Bowl on its various channels. - SoCalConnected

from LAist: A study conducted by Central Connecticut State University takes a look at literacy in major US cities and aims to present a portrait of the country's "cultural vitality," and it's not-so-great news for Los Angeles. - SoCalConnected

Flickr user Hollywood History Tours has rounded up a bunch of historical and architectural photos around LA - SoCalConnected

from LAObserved - Karina Longworth is the new film editor at the LA Weekly. - SoCalConnected

Residents along the California-Mexico border reported intense shaking but no major damage or injuries from today's 5.8 earthquake. - SoCalConnected

L.A. Magazine: Save the diet resolutions for January 1 and leave the cleanup to someone else. Spend this New Years Eve at one of a zillion restaurants around town providing everything from dinner and dancing to just dinneror just booze. How can you say no to free Champagne? - SoCalConnected

LA Times: Nearly 4 million tons of junk and muck, one-third of Los Angeles County's trash, is added to this man-made Puente Hills Landfill each year. - SoCalConnected

LAist: As Southern California's major parade of the year approaches, Tournament of the Roses officials have launched a new feature in which people can text questions through Thursday for an answer. - SoCalConnected

LA Daily: Eight officers statewide were killed, including one Culver City cop, who was the victim of a wrong-way driver on the 10 freeway. No Los Angeles police officers were killed in the line of duty with four days left in the year. - SoCalConnected

A quick decade in review by the Los Angeles Daily News on all thing city of angels. - SoCalConnected

LA Weekly: "We have to look at what the core mission of the city is," City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana told the paper. "Is it a Zoo? Is it a Convention Center? Those are questions the City Council will have to answer." - SoCalConnected

KPCC: A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the U.S - SoCalConnected

Huffington Post: "I have a request for greater Los Angeles in the coming decade. It's not a simple request, but it's simply stated: Over the next 10 years, I want you to become a city--that's right, a real city, like London or New York, Paris or Tokyo." - SoCalConnected

KCRW DJs have again selected their favorite CDs of the year. Since each of our DJs pick every single song they play on the air, the lists represent a variety of tastes, even though a handful of albums reigned supreme - SoCalConnected

The Huffington Post: Nighttime commuters, take note. Beginning in January and lasting for two months, work in the Sepulveda Pass will affect traffic patterns, prompting lane closures and occasionally shutting down all lanes. - SoCalConnected

LA Times: Called "The United States: An American Culture Series," the USC class is an unusual semester-long effort by the university to help its international students learn about the strange food, difficult idioms and bewildering customs that surround them. - SoCalConnected

LA Now: More than 1,400 people were arrested for driving under the influence in Los Angeles County during a weeklong crackdown that ran through the holiday weekend, authorities said. - SoCalConnected

The Drudge Report: Beginning New Year's Day, California will become the first state to bar restaurants from cooking with trans fat, a substance tied to clogged arteries, strokes and coronary heart disease. "Consumers should rejoice," said bill sponsor Tony Mendoza - SoCalConnected

LA Weekly: Now comes news that the department's proper Gang Impact Teams are hurting for officers because a new rule that requires cops to open up their bank accounts, investments and wallets to scrutinity has turned many prospects off. - SoCalConnected

LA Times: The 92 digital signs began popping up several years ago after Los Angeles struck a deal with two billboard companies. The City Council approved the deal, but a number of council members have said they did not grasp the effect it would have on some of their constituent - SoCalConnected

LA Weekly: Arnold is making national news by begging President Barack Obama for $8 billion to keep social programs funded and to keep California state government workers on the job. - SoCalConnected

LA Weekly: Arnold is making national news by begging President Barack Obama for $8 billion to keep social programs funded and to keep California state government workers on the job. - SoCalConnected

LAist: It's a fascinating story -- ex-gang members from Los Angeles traveling to rural southwest Alabama to talk to kids about violence, gangs, poverty and love. - SoCalConnected

LA Observed: Eight in ten tickets generated by the cameras last year were for rolling right turns. About $400,000 in monthly revenue comes from the cameras, Connell says, a doubling of the intake that follows in part the City Council raising the fine for illegal right turns to $381 from $156. - SoCalConnected

LA Observed: Eight in ten tickets generated by the cameras last year were for rolling right turns. About $400,000 in monthly revenue comes from the cameras, Connell says, a doubling of the intake that follows in part the City Council raising the fine for illegal right turns to $381 from $156. - SoCalConnected

LA Observed: Frommer worked on the rules of grammar and pronunciation for about four years. "The constraint, of course, is that the language I created had to be spoken by humans," he says. - SoCalConnected

LA Weekly: "No team in the four major professional sports, won more titles during the 2000s than the Lakers (four). Los Angeles [also] made six appearances in the NBA Finals during the decade." - SoCalConnected

LA Times: While nobody was paying attention, food quietly assumed the place in youth culture that used to be occupied by rock 'n' roll -- individual, fierce and intensely political, communal yet congenial to aesthetic extremes. - SoCalConnected

The Huffington Post: The U.S. Forest Service summoned several powerful firefighting airplanes in the early stages of the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history, then canceled and reordered them, causing a two-hour delay in their arrival, - SoCalConnected

LA Weekly: But with continuing joblessness, a city struggling to find money to hire officers, and a looming release of 40,000 state prisoners, the only direction for crime might be up. - SoCalConnected

LA Magazine: When Adam Carolla isnt hosting The Adam Carolla Podcast, he's frequenting L.A. locales that meet two important criteria: nearby and nearly free. - SoCalConnected