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Auto leasing deals abound these days, with offers that often seem too good to be true. How about a well-equipped Honda Accord for $250 a month with no down payment or any other drive-off fees? Or better yet, $199 a month for a Chevrolet Malibu? So, what's the catch? There isn't any if you know what you're getting into. There are always details. You need top-tier credit to qualify. You pay a penalty if you turn that Honda in with more than 36,000 miles. And the payment is not $250 a month because of that little matter of tax. It is more like $275, depending on where you live.

The gig: Jared Rowe is president of auto information company Kelley Blue Book. The Irvine company has been providing new car pricing, used car values, reviews and other data for 87 years. Once just a modest blue publication, now the company also operates a website that gets about 560,000 visitors a day. The subsidiary of AutoTrader.com employs about 400 people, most in California. Embrace what you love: "I always had an interest in cars when I was growing up. I had a 1968 Mustang that my father and I restored.

WASHINGTON - President Obama forced out the head of the IRS on Wednesday, seeking to restore the public's faith in the tax agency while asserting a measure of control over a rapidly growing political problem. Making a hastily scheduled statement at the White House, Obama denounced the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service as "inexcusable" and pledged to "do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this ever happens again. " "Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it," he said.

Richard D. Kelley, a bassist whose tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic lasted nearly six decades, died on Tuesday at 76. The musician died at his home in La Puente following a long battle with cancer, according to an orchestra spokeswoman. Kelley was one of the orchestra's longest serving musicians at the time of his retirement in October. He joined the bass section in 1956 at the age of 19. During his 57-year tenure, he played under six different music directors, most recently with Gustavo Dudamel.

Richard D. Kelley, a bassist whose tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic lasted nearly six decades, died on Tuesday at 76. The musician died at his home in La Puente following a long battle with cancer, according to an orchestra spokeswoman. Kelley was one of the orchestra's longest serving musicians at the time of his retirement in October. He joined the bass section in 1956 at the age of 19. During his 57-year tenure, he played under six different music directors, most recently with Gustavo Dudamel.

Who is this person? Criticizing the President's wife? How dare she? And the simpletons paying for her book. So many poor little children could be fed on their money. If an ordinary citizen spoke or wrote about his neighbor in a civilized suburban town, he would be sued. Why is Kelley allowed to live like a leech on other people's blood? EUNICE RETTIG Montrose

Gen. P. X. Kelley was ready to take his parting shots Monday as Marine Corps commandant by putting heat on Congress for being cheap with defense and on the news media for having a "lynch mob mentality." But, instead, Kelley took pity on the troops wobbling in the muggy heat at retirement ceremonies for him and Gen. John A. Wickham, the Army chief of staff, and made a simple farewell.

Twice--under very different circumstances, 14 years apart--Kelley became pregnant. Both times--for very different reasons--she made the difficult decision to have an abortion. Now 42, Kelley, who lives in San Clemente, longs to experience pregnancy and childbirth "the way it's supposed to happen." She, her husband and their doctors have tried "every possible procedure" from in vitro fertilization to fertility drugs to various surgeries, all without success.

Famed for the diversity and authenticity of its dim sum, noodle and dumpling houses (not to mention its countless boba cafes), the San Gabriel Valley offers a less expected but no less enticing pleasure: bakeries. The Glutton favors two SGV bakeries in particular: Kelley's (Monterey Park) and Kiki (Alhambra). Both feature cheesecakes, fruit tarts, mousse squares and gorgeously decorated cakes resting alongside savory ham and cheese buns, onion rolls filled with shredded meat and peppery meat pies.

Marty Denkin, the state boxing official under fire since being accused in January of accepting unauthorized gifts, was fired Wednesday. Denkin's dismissal was announced by Michael A. Kelley, director of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, in Sacramento. Kelley cited a departmental investigation which, he said, revealed Denkin accepted jewelry and cash from boxing managers and promoters in exchange for approval of bouts. Denkin, 54, was the California Athletic Commission's assistant executive officer and ran the commission's Los Angeles office.

In the end, it was a very close call, but the less-expensive and longer-ranged 2013 Nissan Leaf edged out a best-ever field of competitors to win top honors on Kelley Blue Book's newest 10 best "green" cars list. "We went round and around on which car would be No. 1," Jack Nerad, KBB's executive editorial director and executive market analyst, said in an interview. "It was a very difficult choice," Nerad said of the decision to put the Leaf just ahead of the Tesla Model S sedan, which came in at No. 2. PHOTOS: Kelley Blue Book's top 10 'green' cars for 2013 "We went with the Leaf because it was so much improved, with a lower price and better battery range," Nerad said.

Honda and Porsche dominated the 2013 Kelley Blue Book image awards, but Ford, Chrysler and Buick also earned top honors. The awards represent consumer views during a year's worth of visits to the Kelley Blue Book website, Chintain Talati, senior director of public relations for Kelley Blue Book, said in an interview. Talati added that the results represent the opinions of about 12,000 "in-market car shoppers who were visiting the website for research. " The awards cover luxury, non-luxury and truck brands.

Kelley Blue Book has announced the winners of its 2013 analysis of the cars, sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks that have the lowest projected cost of ownership over the next five years. Kelley says its analysis includes factors that go beyond depreciation and fuel costs and include "finance and insurance fees, maintenance and repair costs, and state fees for new models. " Consumers should note that “cost to own” says nothing about whether the vehicles are reliable or drive well.

"Monday Mornings," a medical drama premiering Monday night on TNT, brings TV producer and writer David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal," "Boston Legal") together with neurosurgeon and media personality Dr. Sanjay Gupta, whose 2012 hospital-life novel is its basis. Life is full of surprises. The title refers to the "M&M" (for "morbidity and mortality") meetings where surgeons discuss the less successful moments of their recent work - patients dying, breaches of protocol, moments of insensitivity - albeit here they do not so much discuss as submit to a browbeating by their usually charming boss (Alfred Molina as Chelsea General chief of staff Harding Hooten)

Hot seats don't come much hotter than the one at center stage of TNT's new medical series "Monday Mornings. " Anchoring the drama are the morbidity and mortality forums in which doctors at fictional Chelsea General Hospital face-off against their colleagues as they justify their treatment of patients. The behind-closed-doors sessions are frequently brutal, as trauma surgeons, specialists and physicians are subjected to often-withering criticisms from their peers as they defend life-and-death decisions made under extreme pressure.

AMSTERDAM - You could almost hear Mike Kelley laughing. As journalists entered the Stedelijk Museum's new so-called bathtub building to hear director Ann Goldstein introduce a retrospective of Kelley's work, they were greeted by the mellifluous tones of the late Andy Williams from invisible speakers: " It's the most wonderful time of the year, with the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you 'Be of good cheer.' It's the most wonderful time of...

A Woodland Hills man, camping with his wife and friends in the Lockwood Valley area of Ventura County, was killed Saturday night when he shot himself in the head, sheriff's Lt. Bob Gockel said Sunday.

In 1986, lawmakers decided the problem of illegal immigration had to be dealt with. More than 3 million people were living in the United States after crossing the border illegally or overstaying their visas. A new law signed by President Ronald Reagan gave legal status and a path to citizenship to most of those unauthorized residents - helping many secure a slice of the American dream but also giving fuel to critics who sought to turn "amnesty" into a pejorative. Less than 30 years later, the number of immigrants living in the country illegally is thought to have nearly quadrupled, and the freighted baggage of amnesty looms over new efforts to reform the nation's immigration laws.

TAMPA, Fla. - When Tampa radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge said he would "deep-fat fry a Koran" in response to deadly protests against U.S. troops for the accidental burning of the Muslim holy book in Afghanistan, Jill Kelley was on it. "I just got off the phone with Gen. Allen and Adm. Harward," the Tampa socialite emailed the mayor of Tampa in March, referring to Gen. John R. Allen, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, and Vice Adm....

This post has been updated. When artist Mike Kelley died this year he left behind a number of unfinished projects. One of the biggest was "Mobile Homestead," a planned large-scale replica of the artist's home in suburban Detroit. Now it appears that the project will come to life posthumously thanks to a grant awarded to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit. The museum has announced that it has received a $150,000 grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation for the completion of "Mobile Homestead.