Everything you need to know from today's front pages 

Report: L.A. County Beach Water Cleaner This Year
Good news for beach lovers going into Memorial Day weekend.
[LAT] 

Missing Fox Executive Gavin Smith Possibly Spotted
With a female companion, in Morro Bay, on May 7.
[NBC LA]

HS Football Star Brian Banks’s 2002 Rape Conviction Overturned
His accuser recanted.
[KTLA] 

CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed is Retiring
He has headed the Long Beach-based system for 14 years.
[Daily News] 

Metro Votes to Approve Beverly Hills Subway Development
Let the mythmaking about the tunnel that will run beneath Beverly Hills High School commence.
[Beverly Hills Courier] 

There’s a New American Idol
Congratulations to Phillip Phillips II.
[People] 

Man Confesses to Strangling Etan Patz in 1979
It’s another turn in the back-in-the-spotlight case.
[NYT]

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