• A police-ordered deadline for Occupy LA campers to disperse from City Hall's lawn at midnight causes reverse effect, draws more protesters, but there are still no plans to evict them. [LATimes]
• Miley Cyrus announces she's a big a stoner and smokes lots of ganja at her 19th birthday party at the Roosevelt. [TMZ]

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• A 1,300-foot-wide asteroid, the biggest to pass near Earth in decades, will come its closest today and hopefully reveal mysteries of the origins of the universe as professional and amateur astronomers around the world track its path. [LATimes]
• After dating for nearly a year, Chelsea Handler and hotelier André Balazs call it quits. [Post]

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• TSA is in the process of a possible overhaul in airport screening that would focus on intelligence gathering, change the way children are searched, and streamline procedures for lower-risk passengers. [LATimes]
• Justin Bieber agrees to take a paternity test to prove he is not the father of Mariah Yeater's baby as she claims, and then his camp plans to sue her. [TMZ]

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• BMW is recalling almost 200,000 Beemers for brake problems [LATimes]
• Cameron Winklevoss says Sorkin and Fincher get the true story in The Social Network [PE]
• The Beckham's marriage is just fine since Victoria flashed her ring on their way to Mozza last night, okay? [TMZ]
• It's official: Rahm Emanuel is resigning as White House chief of staff to run for mayor of Chicago, Pete Rouse to fill his shoes in D.C. [HuffPo]
• Does Gloria Allred's letter prove Meg Whitman is lying about not knowing her ex-maid was undocumented? [KTLA]

• The Salahis of RHODC claim they were on a secret "off-the-record" guest list when they crashed the White House state dinner [Post]
• Jon Stewart gets a big Obama endorsement for his proposed "Rally to Restore Sanity" on Oct. 30 [HuffPo]
• Cy Waits hit a pap with his car as he left Boa last night... and kept on driving away with Paris Hilton in the passenger seat [TMZ]
• Hollywood legend Tony Curtis dies of cardiac arrest at 85 [PE]
• Meg Whitman's ex-maid lawyers up with Gloria Allred, alleges the gubernatorial candidate knew she was undocumented for the 9 years under her employ [KTLA]

The former housekeeper of republican gubernatorial candidate for California, Meg Whitman, is revealing "controversial and explosive allegations" about her former employer at a press conference. Oh, and did we mention famewhoring attorney, the one and only Gloria Allred will be flanking the disgruntled employee? Yeah, so you know it's good. More»

• Apparently Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino thought Sarah Palin was one of the "Real Housewives" in the DWTS audience!!! [PE]
• Opponents in the race for CA governor Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman face off in their first debate [LATimes]
• With Gloria Allred by her side, Whitman's former maid is scheduled to drop a mega bombshell about her ex-employer today. Yes! [TMZ]
• LAPD shoot, kill car thief who opened fire on them with an AK-47 near Echo Park [KTLA]
• Chris Noth treats NYC diners, including Mary-Kate, to an awesome Rolling Stones medley with Ronnie Wood [Post]

• Watch out, Mel: your mistress just lawyered up with Gloria Allred [TMZ]
• Katy Perry's ex was a hot mess and she wrote songs about it [Post]
• "Entourage" may go the way of SATC after its final season next summer [HP]
• W Hollywood evacuated when man makes bomb threats on roof [KTLA]
• White House crashers and RHODC stars don't pay their party bills [PE]

• Gloria Allred is coming after Roman Polanski with her newest client who alleges the director exhibited "sexually predatory conduct."  A press conference for Allred and the accuser is scheduled for 10:30am today... Brace yourselves [TMZ]
• Supposedly, claws are coming out over Cameron Diaz's relationship with Kate Hudson's ex, A-Rod: "Kate thinks Cameron is an aging old-lady actress struggling to remain sexy and relevant"  Meee-owww! [NYPost]
• Downtown L.A. now offers residents ID cards that will qualify them for discounts at local downtown businesses [BlogDowntown]
• In response to the new immigration law, L.A. city officials can only travel to Arizona under "special circumstances" that are in the city's interests. Otherwise, no way Jose [LATimes]
• Looks like someone just got busted and is in bigggg trouble... Nancy Salas, the UCLA student whose disappearance after a run on Wednesday morning led volunteers and LAPD on an aggressive search to find her is alive and well. But she's neither a UCLA student nor was she kidnapped...  [Huffington Post]

• Is David Boreanaz the victim of a serious shakedown for not being "exclusive" with his mistress? [TMZ]
• After his rendition of the national anthem at the Mosley-Mayweather fight, Vegas snubs Chris Brown [NYPost]
• It was only a matter of time before L.A.'s cupcake culture and food truck obsession united [EaterLA]
• Schwarzenegger thinks a ban on smoking at beaches and parks is too extreme [LATimes]
• Was there a link between the Times Square bomb scare and "South Park's" 200th episode depicting the prophet Muhammad? [LAWeekly]