Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A man in a disguise claiming to be the lover of Orlando gunman Omar Mateen said the June 12 massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida was motivated by revenge, not radical Islam. In an interview with Univision, the man said Mateen was "100 percent gay" and that the two had carried on a "friends with benefits" relationship after meeting last year through a gay dating app. He said he had reported his relationship with Mateen to the FBI and had been interviewed several time...
Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District Superintendent Sandra Lyon quit lat March, and Thursday, Eva Mayoral resigned after 3 years as principal. In an e mail to the community, Mayoral said she is leaving the State of California to live closer to family. “I can tell you unequivocally that I have never been fonder of any group of students, parents or staff,” she wrote. “It is this love that has made my life joyful, and this decision excruciating. But you are not my only...
- Three people were killed and four others were critically injured when their 15-foot boat capsized Saturday on the far side of Catalina Island, authorities said. The Coroner’s Office identified the three men killed as Young Joon Park, 64, and Kyung Hwam Kim, 47, both of Los Angeles, and Jason Jung Noh, 62, of Buena Park, said Capt. John Kades of the coroner’s office. Everyone on the boat was Korean or Korean American, and they were out fishing in a boat so small that 4-6 foo...
LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. – A stubborn wildfire near Lake Isabella in Northern California has killed at least two, and probably 3. 3 firefighters suffered some inhallation injuries. 35,711 acres and 150 homes have burned, 1500 remain evacuated. The fire is 0% controlled. The tally rose from 80 homes as firefighters began going through neighborhoods in South Lake. They counted houses and mobile homes destroyed by the fire. In one mobile home, they found what appears to be a set o...
Conservative columnist and Fox News contributor George Will says that he doesn't know who he will vote for for President. "But I know who I will not be voting for--Donald Trump. Will has left the Republican Party due to Donald Trump's presumptive nomination for president. Will, whose column is published by The Washington Post, told that news paper Saturday that he changed his Maryland voter registration from Republican to "unaffiliated" earlier this month after House Speaker...
The Brazilian medical laboratory responsible for processing Olympic drug test samples, instead has been suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency, a division of the International Olympic Committee. The suspension commenced June 22, 2016. Rio Laboratory may appeal the suspension, levied because of "a non-conformity with the International Standard for Laboratories." Incoming director Olivier Niggli assured that, "WADA will work closely with the Rio Laboratory to resolve the...
In a shocking reversal of pre-election opinion polls, Britons voted to leave the European Union. With all the vote counted, 51.9% of British people voted to leave and only 48.1% voted to remain. In the end, they wanted control of their country back from non elected technocrats in Brussels. The Bank of England has said it will face liquidity problems, and the electorate was warned. But more of the Leave voters showed up at the polls than anyone expected. Wales and England...
A moderate earthquake rocked Southern California this afternoon. It was felt as a sharp jolt at 6:45 pm PST. USGS reports 2.9 magnitude earthquake, just 4 kilometers SW of Santa Monica. The earthquake was felt across the westside, as far east as the 405. Authorities, however, reported no damage or injuries....
June 22: A widespread outage starting at about 4 PM Los Angeles time, appears to be affecting Charter internet customers across the U.S. Citing sources within the company, Turlock California City news Says that the outage is due To a fiber optic cable which has been accidentally severed near Calabasas. Service was restored in Woodland Hills today just before 1 p.m. PST Downdetector.com says that outages have been reported in Charter Spectrum Internet, in Saint Louis, Los Angel...
As the fog rolled in to cool a hot summer day, the power went out West of 11th Street and North of California Avenue in Santa Monica on Wednesday evening at about 8:20 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. The power came back on at 8:59 p.m. Some residents reported that they heard a minor explosion. The Santa Monica Fire Department tweeted that it Is responding to reports of a Transformer fire in the 500 block of 7th Street, north of Montana Avenue. We could see lights on at the...
Over 4,600 firefighters are battling 5 large wildfires in California. Crews are making progress on several fronts and as a result, evacuations have been lifted for several communities including the Potrero area from the Border Fire in San Diego County and the Duarte area from the Fish Fire in Los Angeles County. 534 out of 770 evacuated households have been allowed to return home. Fire officials said Wednesday that crews are making good progress on the San Gabriel Complex...
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) - Three people were caught on an alleged vigilante mission with an arsenal of weapons, during a routine traffic stop at the Holland Tunnel on Tuesday, authorities said. John Cramsey, 50, and Dean Smith, 53, both of Zionsville, Pennsylvania, and Kimberly Arendt, 29, of Lehighton, each face several weapons charges. They were arrested as they passed through the tunnel around 7:40 a.m. The group claimed they were vigilantes on their way to...
Santa Monica was relatively pleasant at 86 degrees, but todays 121 degree record in Palm Springs broke a record going back 80 years. The heat wave has already broken records across the Southland, with more poised to fall on Monday. Woodland Hills topped out at 112 degrees. Burbank was forecast to hit 108 degrees, passing the old record of 106 degrees in 2008. In Santa Barbara, not far from where the Sherpa fire has scorched nearly 8,000 acres in the Santa Ynez Mountains,...
The Reservoir Fire, which broke out near the Morris Reservoir dam, has burned 2,400 acres. The Fish Fire, which is located near Opal Canyon and Brookridge roads near Duarte, has burned 3,000 acres. The initial fire, dubbed the Reservoir Fire, started Monday when a pickup truck crashed off Highway 39 near Morris Dam and started a brush fire. The driver was killed in the crash and ensuing fire. The fires grew to more than 1,500 acres in a matter of hours. The blaze now exceeds...
Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski's abrupt firing Monday came down to a battle of ultimatums, reports FoxNews. And ultimately, Lewandowski lost. Paul Manafort, the veteran political aparatchik who since March has been amassing influence inside Trump HQ, recently told Trump through third parties he would quit in 48 hours if Trump didn't oust Lewandowski. Trump was reluctant to dump the man who had run his campaign from the time he declared his candidacy a year...
Orange County Police arrested Orlando karate instructor Stephannie Figueroa, 21, after she allegedly told an 11-year-old student she wanted to have sex with him and sent him more than a dozen nude photos . The instructor was arrested after the boy's mother opened the messaging app Kik on his phone and found inappropriate messages from the teacher, police said. The local District Attorney has filed charges against Stephannie Figueroa, 21 alleging child abuse, attempted lewd or...
If you've ever driven with Waze, you've noticed two things: Your wife constantly yells at you to put down the phone, and the Waze App directs you to "difficult intersections." Meaning you have to take a left turn off of some small street, onto Olympic Blvd. At rush hour. From now on, the default setting on Waze will avoid "risky turns," and instead allow you to make a series of right turns, or another alternate route. Users may disable this feature, if they're just totally...
A 300 ton crane collapsed at Torrance's ExxonMobil refinery at about 9:30 a.m. The collapse inflicted minor injuries on three workers. The 300-ton crane was being used in the operational portion of the refinery, on 190th Street near Crenshaw. It suddenly fell for reasons that are under investigation, said Torrance Fire Department Battalion Chief Bob Miller. "Initially, some flammable gas was suppressed by water monitors," Millea said. "There were no offsite impacts." The...
A homeless man was sentenced today to four years in state prison for stealing a custom made tricycle for a teen with cerebral palsy, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Deputy District Attorney Deborah Kranze said Carlos Andres Lopez, 47, entered a no contest plea today to one felony count of first-degree residential burglary, as a strike, in case GA098156. Lopez also admitted a 2002 conviction for first-degree residential burglary in case LA039169....
We are nearing the Summer Solstice, and it was hotter than a pistol in Southern California today. It was 106 in Woodland Hills and Monday will be yet hotter. Similar temperatures were recorded in Beverly Hills and Woodland Hills, Glendale and Burbank, in San Bernardino and Riverside. In downtown Santa Monica, it was 90 degrees Farenheit. The beaches offered little relief from the heat Fies burned, in Santa Barbara of course, but there were also dangerous fires in Silver Lake...
Disney, Inc. could face a stiff legal fight following the alligator attack at its resort in Orlando last Tuesday. Two year old Lane Grey from Elkhorn, Nevada, was drowned by the gator. His body was found the next day "Disney is strictly liable for creating a hazard (a pool of dark water at a family resort. They knew or should have known about the danger of alligators inhabiting such a pool, in South Florida. Historically, the area was a swamp. Disney World should never have be...
A small plane has crashed into BART tracks in Hayward, CA killing the pilot. At 11:57 a.m., fire officials received a report that a small plane ent down near 150 Sandoval Way, said fire Capt. Don Nichelson of the Hayward Fire Dept. The crash caused a small fire. No other injuries have been reported, said Nichelson BART halted served on the Fremont Line, said BART officials, suggesting passengers take the ACT Transit bus line 99 between the South Hayward and Fremont Stations....
Update, 6 PM 6/18; progress has been made on the fire which is now 45% contained and has consumed some 7500 acres. The weather is expected to be hot tomorrow perhaps as much as 90°F even in the coastal zone. This will not help firefighters. 10 p.m. 6/17A water treatment plant at El Capitan State Beach burned down overnight as the Sherpa fire has grown to more than 6,000 acres, threatening crops, homes and an oil refinery. 600 firemen cannot slow it down, much, as the sundowner...
Five people are dead after an illegal alien allegedly set fire to a vacant building in the Westlake District of Los Angeles. Johnny Josue Sanchez, 21, allegedly started the blaze after a dispute with other transients at the site, a large vacant commercial building at 2411 W. Eighth Street near MacArthur Park. He has been arrested for drug possession, domestic abuse, and breaking and entering. Now he faces 5 counts of murder. Those killed include Jerry Dean Clemons, 59, and Mar...
A five year old was playing in his front yard along with an older brother in a rural area not far from Aspen. Suddenly their mother heard screaming and ran outside to find a mountain lion had jumped him. The mother pulled the cat off the boy. The boy's father called 911 and drove him to a hospital. This in a week when America has been transfixed by an alligator attack on a 2 year old boy at Orlando's Disneyworld Resort. The Mountain lion, often called a cougar or Puma, is...
