Los Angeles’ population has surpassed 4 million for the first time, officials announced. While state officials said last year that L.A. had passed that milestone on Jan. 1, 2007, they said final tabulations on that earlier estimate showed the city’s population was actually 3.996 million. However, the city’s population grew 1.2 percent last year to reach 4,045,873 residents as of Jan. 1, 2008, according to the state Department of Finance. For the full story visit http://www.dailynews.com/breakingnews/ci_9125880