TITLE MATCHUP: Kennedy High School will send...

TITLE MATCHUP: Kennedy High School will send its sluggers to Dodger Stadium for Thursday’s CIF city section championship game. Kennedy, which walloped Banning 15-3 Tuesday, will face Carson, which edged El Camino Real 1-0 (C6). . . . A Valley team has won the title all but once during the past two decades.

NO DISCOUNT: The former Holmby Hills home of insolvent ex-Los Angeles Kings President Bruce McNall was sold Tuesday to Ronald O. Perelman, a businessman-philanthropist who outbid Harvard-Westlake School (C2). . . . The five-bedroom home next to the school was sold in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for $4,738,750, above the $4.55 million offered by school officials. Said headmaster Thomas Hudnut: “We weren’t going to get into an auction war.”

PORNO KING: Reuben Sturman, above, has done some outlandish things in his life. In the 1950s, he began an empire of sex-oriented bookstores. Then, he named a line of sexual aids after a former President. Later, he became a kingpin in the peep-show industry. . . . But now, the former Sherman Oaks porn king may spend the rest of his life in prison--all because of one thing he didn’t do: pay his taxes. He was nailed after the longest-running IRS criminal investigation in history (B1).

IT’S NO SECRET: A Lancaster man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to trying to sell U.S. defense secrets to an FBI agent posing as a foreign official. . . . Attorneys for John Douglas Charlton said the information he tried to sell on a Navy stealth project should not be considered classified since details have already appeared in science magazines (B7).

NEW YEAR: The Valley’s estimated 10,000 Muslims today are marking Muharram 1, 1416--the first day of the Muslim New Year. The day signifies the migration of Muslims from Mecca to Medina. “I think people look forward to migrating to the United States and the Valley,” said Hasan Mulla, a co-director of the Islamic Center of Northridge.