Drop That Rose! Law-abiding florists weren’t the...

Drop That Rose! Law-abiding florists weren’t the only ones doing big business this Valentine’s week. Illegal, rose-hawking street vendors were also out in force. . . . Unfortunately for them, so were Foothill station police officers. “We’ve been citing them like crazy all day,” LAPD Lt. Jeff Hulet said Friday.

Winners, Losers: Marian Brockamp didn’t get back the $7,000 her late father, a Granada Hills resident, overpaid the IRS. But her pending lawsuit helped convince the Treasury Department to make it easier for others to reclaim such overpayments. . . . County Democrats endorsed Tarzana’s Georgia Mercer to replace retiring City Councilman Marvin Braude. But Zev Yaroslavsky went for the candidate with the syllabically similar name, Cindy Miscikowski.

Tee Time: While much of the sports world Friday was focused on Shaquille O’Neal’s knee injury, Glendale was focused on golf. . . . And Ellie Gibson, above, was focused on the 9th hole at the inaugural Los Angeles Women’s Championship at Oakmont Country Club. Coverage begins on C1.

The Week Ahead: In 1953, Francis Crick and two colleagues made perhaps the most important discovery in the history of life sciences, revealing the double-helix structure of DNA. . . . That was just the beginning for the Nobel laureate, who will speak at CSUN on Thursday on how mammals see.