Your daily look at late-breaking California news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. PRINCE WAS TO MEET WITH CALIFORNIA ADDICTION DOCTOR
Prince’s representatives arranged for the musician to meet a Northern California doctor to help him kick an addiction to painkillers shortly before his death, according to a newspaper report.
2. ’GRIM SLEEPER’ CASE GOES TO JURY
Closing arguments have ended and a Los Angeles jury will begin deliberating in the case of the man charged in the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings.
3. IT COULD BE WOODSTOCK 47 YEARS LATER
Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Paul McCartney, Neil Young and Roger Waters are being brought together in October for one three-day blowout in California’s Coachella Desert.
4. MEET THE NEXT SPORT OF THE MODERN AGE
Behold drone racing, a would-be sport in which men (and a few women) pilot remote-controlled copters on twisting courses at up to 80 miles an hour.
5. COMEDIAN PENS LOVING TRIBUTE TO WIFE
Comedian Patton Oswalt has authored a touching essay nearly two weeks after the unexpected death of his wife, crime writer Michelle McNamara.
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