The tiger story continues. Officials are still looking for the owners of the tiger killed Wednesday. Assemblywoman Audra Strickland is holding meetings on the handling of the incident, but she's closing the doors to those talks (the legislature is generally immune from the state's open meetings laws) and then talking about them later. And residents plan a candlelight vigil for the tiger at the park next to where it was slain this evening. We'll wrap all that up in tomorrow's story.

The monthly home sale figures are out this morning. The median sales price of a single-family house in Ventura County hit a record in January, $638.130.

We also return to Santa Paula Airport today to listen to what state inspectors suggest about the options for re-opening the heavily used private facility that was damaged in this week's storm, and how they plan to get the planes out that are now on the ground.

One other local story we're covering, although it might not make Page One, is the death of Shady, the cat adopted by the city of Port Hueneme who lived at City Hall for more than 18 years. It became famous a few years back when CNN ran a feature story on the Town Cat.

Wire stories we're watching today are the health of the pope and continuing violence in Iraq. Both could make it to the front, depending on developments during the day.