Gas Prices Stabilize—At Least for Today

1. The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County was unchanged today, one day after a 36-day streak of increases ended with a decrease of two-tenths of a cent. The average price of $3.971 is 2.8 cents higher than a week ago, 44.7 cents above what it was one month ago and 89.9 cents greater than it was one year ago, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. The average price rose 57.2 cents to its highest amount since Aug. 21, 2008, during the streak that began Feb. 9.

2. UCLA's School of Public Affairs gets its official name change to the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin School of Public Affairs at a ceremony today at 4 p.m. The Luskins to the university earlier this year.

3. At the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Film and Television Archives' Festival of Preservation continues with a noir double bill of Cry Danger, starring Dick Powell as an ex-convict who returns to L.A. to find the gang who framed him, and James Cagney gangster pic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. The program begins at 7:30 p.m.

4. Health and environmental officials in the Southland are that there is minimal local threat from radiation emanating from an earthquake-damaged nuclear power plant in Japan. L.A. County health director Dr. Jonathan Fielding says he does not expect to see harmful levels of radiation in the U.S. or L.A. Fielding says that because more than 5,000 miles separate Japan and L.A.,  any radiation that reaches Southern California would be well-diluted by the time it reaches here.

5. Weather today: Low clouds and fog in the morning will be followed by partly cloudy skies and high temperatures in the mid 60s. Tonight will be cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain after midnight and lows in the upper 40s.

City News Service was used to compile this report. 

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