Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Update: On August 30, 2019, the Tarrant County Toxicologist said that Tyler Skaggs had alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone all present in his system at his death. He choked on his own vomit. This is surprising because Skaggs had a clean living image. We were forced to cleanse this story of any mention of drugs or alcohol, even though we initially reported it on July 2, 2019, just 2 days after his death. On July 1, 2019, Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs was found unresponsive in his...
A 43-year-old man was found guilty today of the brutal slayings of two women and trying to kill another woman over a seven-year period, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for more than three days before finding Michael Gargiulo guilty of two counts of first-degree murder with the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and lying in wait, making him eligible for the death penalty. He also was convicted of one count of...
Santa Monica Police were seen in a CBS News Video frisking and taking into custody a bald, middle aged Brinks security Guard. His gun was visible in his belt, underneath his shirt. He had fired two shots at a fleeing suspect near the crowded Third Street Promenade, causing bystanders to panic and flee what some though was a mass shooting incident. Police also took the robbery suspect into custody at about 12:30 pm on Friday, after he apparently escaped with a money bag after...
At the August 2, 2019 graduation the girls presented their final projects, heard from Riot Games' Head of Technology Mike Seavers and commemorated their achievements from the past few weeks. For the last 10 years Riot has tried to expand opportunities in the game industry. This summer that involved working with Girls Who Code to provide 20 local high school students with coding lessons, activities like robotics design and creating their own esports broadcast, and overall...
Celebrate the last days of Summer with free salsa classes, outdoor comedy shows, live music or some quality time lounging in new outdoor seating options on Third Street Promenade in Downtown Santa Monica. Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. (DTSM) in partnership with local organizations, bands, and instructors, will host two months of free community programming and activations on The Experiment Stage at Third Street Promenade beginning August 11 through September 30 of this year. All...
Scott Price and Janice Hou are hosting their second musical instrument drive from August 5th through August 16th. Scott and Janice say they have always been passionate about music and by its unique ability to bring people of all languages and cultures together. Scott, who has been a drummer since the age of five, believes that by collecting instruments for students at Lincoln Middle School, he can inspire local kids to use music as a form of expression and creativity just as h...
A 28-year-old man was sentenced today to 16 years to life in state prison for killing a man outside of a South Los Angeles hamburger restaurant in 2015, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Mike Bauer said David Carrillo, 33, of Los Angeles was found guilty on May 21, of one count of second-degree murder with an allegation that he used a knife to commit the murder. During an argument and fight on Feb. 10, 2015, Carrillo fatally...
An unverified post on Facebook reports that a gang of kids jumped another group of kids to steal from them, on the Exposition Train between Santa Monica and Culver City. The crime reportedly took place at around 8 pm Friday night, August 2, 2019. One of the victims was reportedly injured. The post, with the names changed, follows: Last night, my boys, their friends, Jason Sara and Eva, took the metro from the beach in Santa Monica to Culver City. A group of about 15 girls and...
A 59-year-old Santa Monica man has been charged with distributing and possessing child pornography, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Guido Germano, 59 was charged with one felony count each of distribution of obscene matter and possession of child or youth pornography. Germano, who is the director of artificial intelligence medicine at Cedars-Sinai hospital, is accused of distributing child pornography videos using peer-to-peer software and...
Authorities announced that they have filed charges on Fernando Venancio Jr., a 43-year-old male from Lynwood CA., for his involvement in a series of robberies and sexual assaults that occurred in Santa Monica. Police arrested Venancio for two assaults on 18th and 19th Street, neighborhoods not typically frequented by violent crimes. The press release from SMPD reads: "On July 22, 2019 at about 4:16 p.m., officers from the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) responded to a ra...
Three people were killed in a shooting in Gilroy's Christmas Hill Park late Sunday afternoon, 7/28. Police say the dead include a 6 year old boy, a 13 year old girl, and a young man in his 20's. The 19 year old shooter, Santino William Legan, was also killed. 12 people were wounded, a local hospital spokeswoman said. Remarkably, the shooting at the annual food festival lasted only about a minute before police responded. Legan was shot and killed about 90 seconds after the...
Three weeks after his death, Angel's pitcher Tyler Skaggs was memorialized at Saint Monica's Catholic Church. The memorial service began Monday 7/22 at 11 AM. Admission was by invitation, and the memorial service wasn't publicized in advance. The private memorial will be aired tonight at 7 PM on Fox Sports Network. Busses brought in the Angels, who are not playing a scheduled game today. "There will be no body. Tyler was cremated, and his ashes have already been scattered,"...
A lightning strike on a beach in Marina Del Rey closed local beaches for about an hour Tuesday morning. This according to alerts from the City of Santa Monica. SM Alert Lightning Advisory - An electrical storm with lightning has been reported in Santa Monica. Please evacuate all ocean and beach/sand areas. If on the beach or on the Santa Monica Pier, seek shelter indoors until the storm has ended.” 10:53 update “LA County Lifeguards have reopened all beaches. Please res...
While California's biggest city deploys rat poison, the California State Legislature simultaneously considers a ban on rat poison. As former US Vice President Dan Quayle said, irony is pretty ironic sometimes. The recent release of a study saying that the Los Angeles county rat population has doubled in a year, has touched off a controversy. Some blame the homeless, others blame restrictions on rat poison said to kill mountain lions and other wildlife. Carl Demaio of Reform...
Early Sunday morning, Santa Monica Police were attacked by Wolfgang Mountford, 29, in an alley off Lincoln Blvd, near Grant Avenue. Police say the man rushed them, an officer pulled his sidearm and fired one shot which struck the man. Fire department paramedics treated the man, who was taken to a hospital. Later he was treated and released. Police say they had encountered the same suspect earlier in the day. The press release from the SMPD is below. Santa Monica, CA: On July 1...
Federal agents and New York Police Department Detectives said that they have arrested Grammy award winning singer R. Kelly, on sex crime and kidnapping charges. On July 11, 2019, Kelly was arrested on federal charges alleging sex crimes and obstruction of justice. Kelly faces a total of 18 federal counts including child pornography, kidnapping, and forced labor as of July 12, 2019. Since the 1990s, Kelly has been the subject of numerous allegations of sexual abuse and...
Despite the earthquakes, Santa Monica conducted its annual parade on Thursday July 4, 2019. It lasted from 9:30 to 11 am. The 6.4 Richter scale temblor occurred at 10:19 am. The parade featured more than the usual protests, this is after all the Trump era. One lady had a shirt that said "children in cages." And local peace activist Jerry Rubin was there. The Santa Monica High School marching band was there, as were the usual stilt walkers. The quake did not throw them off...
At 8:19 PM on July 5, 2019 a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit the same area, 17 km south west of Ridgecrest California. Given that it's magnitude was greater than the initial shake, this qualifies as the main shark and makes the July 4 earthquake a pre-shock. An event at Burbank high school was evacuated due to the quake. At Caltech, Dr Lucy Jones said she could not remember a series of 3 earthquakes each greater than the one before but it is possible. Later, Caltech said the...
Trailer Park residents called LAPD Officer Rusty Redican and his partner Earl Wright Monday, after sighting a mountain lion in The Tahitian Terrace mobile park. Officer Redican located the mountain lion. Officers from the California Department of Fish and Game "later sedated the big kitty and transported her back to the wild," according to neighbors posting on Nextdoor.com. As human beings have moved further and further into the forest, sightings of mountain lions, also...
Three women who live at 19th Street and Washington told Santa Monica Police that a man was living in their laundry room, and eventually broke into their apartment early Thursday morning, 6/13/2019. "The man entered through out window in a small apartment," posted one of the women on nextdoor.com. "At about1:30am, my roommate saw him and started screaming and ran out - we think he left right after. There has been a man apparently sleeping In our laundry room for the past few...
A power outage, or series of outages, caused the evacuation of terminals beginning on Wednesday at 6:20 pm. 310 Southwest flights were cancelled Wednesday night. Thursday morning at 6 a.m., the power failed again. Power crews were told to focus on Terminals 8 and 9. Several terminals saw their emergency backup systems triggered, which created a dim light for some passengers. Planes began to take off again at 11 pm on Wednesday night. But TSA cleared the Southwest terminal....
Electrical power was out across a wide area of Santa Monica Thursday afternoon beginning just after 2 PM. Power was restored to some areas just after 5 PM Pacific standard time. Ground zero for the power outage appeared to be an underground fire in an electrical vault. Edison crews were working in the alley on Arizona Avenue between Lincoln and Seventh Street. The Chase bank at seventh and Wilshire closed early as did the coffee bean and tea leaf on Ninth Street. The area of...
A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Dept of Public Health, confirms two cases of typhus in Santa Monica in the last year. He said they have found typhus in Santa Monica in the past, on rats, feral cats and opossums. It has not recently found cases in people. There is a concern that they could be transmitted from the animals to people sleeping in the park, by way of fleas. Another concern is shelter workers, who could contract disorders from animals. The County does test rat...
Somehow, the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica opened two years ago with a Coastal Commission permit. Wednesday, the hotel, which bills itself as sustainable and environmentally sensitive, will appear before the Commission and seek the necessary permits. Shore Hotel's PR person, Melendy Britt, sent us the following: We are pleased to share a statement from Shore Hotel before tomorrow's hearing at the California Coastal Commission. "The owners of Santa Monica's first LEED...
World War 1 and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire ended 101 years ago. Yet the event is fresh in the minds of 200,000 Los Angeles County Armenians, For the 5th year in a row, they shut down Wilshire Blvd, LA County's "Main Street," to mark a genocide they say cries out for more international recognition and compensation. Thousands of Armenians and others marched through Hollywood and the Mid-City area Wednesday to mark the 104th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, again...
