Week in Review: Walgreens Project, Assembly Race Endorsement, Craigslist Scam

This week in West Hollywood, the controversial Walgreens development got the green light from the Planning Commission, the City Council decided to create a committee devoted to improving the annual Pride festival, and 50th Assembly District candidate Torie Osborn won an endorsement from the Weho-based Stonewall Democratic Club.

In crime news, three men were arrested in connection with a home invasion robbery, Pinkberry's co-founder was in custody on an assault warrant, and a suspected drunk driver was apprehended after a high-speed chase through West Hollywood.

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Sheila Watson, 60, was arrested on suspicion of grand theft this week after allegedly from a West Hollywood man selling on Craigslist, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reported.

Despite some residents' concerns about increased traffic and truck deliveries, the , set for the southwest corner of Santa Monica and Crescent Heights boulevards, got final approval Thursday from the West Hollywood Planning Commission.

In response to growing complaints about West Hollywood's annual Pride parade and festival, the city has decided to form a for 2013. Mayor John Duran and Councilman John D'Amico will serve on a committee to help substantially raise the quality of next year's event.

A who led police on a dangerous, high-speed chase through Palms, West Los Angeles, the Wilshire district and West Hollywood Saturday night was finally arrested when he tried to run inside Culver City’s Brotman Medical Center, a Los Angeles police sergeant said. 

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In advance of an item on the City Council's Tuesday meeting agenda regarding "election reforms" and a proposal to shift local balloting to November, blogger Sheila Lightfoot offered her own suggestions in her post,

Both Tracy Pattin and Tracey Paleo covered the premiere of Kenyetta Lethridge's play about teenage prostitution and human trafficking at the Zephyr Theatre. Learn more about Innocent Flesh , or watch interviews with the cast in this .

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The two-week-long DineLA Restaurant Week began Sunday, with offering specially priced three-course meals. The special menus are available until Feb. 3, except on Saturdays.

There was a bit of a delay with the going up on the Sunset Strip. But it looks like Mark di Suvero's monumental work from 1966 will be restaged beginning this week in a vacant lot at Sunset and Hilldale.

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