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...
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton met agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations on Saturday. When investigators meet with the "target defendant," it generally means their investigation is swiftly coming to a conclusion, legal experts say. "Secretary Clinton gave a voluntary interview this morning about her email arrangements while she was Secretary. She is pleased to have had the opportunity to assist the Department of Justice in bringing this...
Donald Trump quashed a rumor that Mike Tyson would be among the speakers at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. " "The media makes everything up," said the presumptive Republican nominee in a tweet. "But if Iron Mike were to speak, though, he'd do a good job." The convention won’t just be a family affair, says Politico. Trump has publicly talked about calling upon his celebrity friends to join him at the convention, and Bloomberg reported this week that h...
Update, 6/29, 5 pm PDT: Authorities report that they have killed the 120 pound bear involved in this attack. It's unknown whether or not the iPad was retrieved. Rangers hunted the hills above Altadena for a black bear who would not be Rickrolled one more time. He pushed through a tent wall, slashed a man across the forehead and stole his iPad. Stealing an iPad is a death penalty offense when it comes to black bears, authorities said. The small bear pushed through a tent wall...
A rescue operation never attempted before, resumed today off the coast of Southern California as crews try to free an 80 foot blue whale from fishing lines attached to a crab trap. A whale watching boat operated by Captain Dave's Dolphin & Whale Watching Safari first noticed that the whale appeared to have 100 to 200 feet (30 to 60 meters) of crabbing lines and buoys wound around him, perhaps 3.5 miles off the Orange County Coast. According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Florida officials reported the state's first case of a Zika-linked birth defect in a baby born to a Haitian woman infected in Haiti. The woman came to the United States to give birth, because she thought it would be better for the baby. The newborn has microcephaly, the most notorious defect caused by Zika, the Florida Department of Health said. Microcephaly is a smaller-than-normal head caused when the brain doesn't develop properly. There's no cure for it. "The mother, a...
Is there anything that says Summer Solstice better than a huge pile of wood being set on fire? Jonsok (St. John's Passing), or St. Hans (St. John's Day), i.e. 24 June, is a commonly observed holiday in Norway. It marks midsummer and the beginning of summer vacation, and is often celebrated by lighting bonfires the evening before. In Northern areas of Norway, this day has 24 hours of light, while southern areas have only 17.5 hours. T"he Sankthans (Midsummer) bonfire on...
As buyer's remorse settled in today, Brexit became #Regrexit. An online petition demanding another referendum on Britain's decision to leave the European Union has gathered 3 million signatures. Even people who voted to leave the EU, felt buyers remorse. Some voters said they didn't understand what the EU was, or what leaving would mean, or that their vote really counted. Meanwhile, other EU countries were talking of leaving the Union. Sweded threatened Swexit. Netherland has...
The L.A. County District Attorney's Office will seek to have convicted murderer Raymond Lee Jennings released from state prison on Thursday after new evidence was uncovered that raises doubts about his conviction in 2009. The D.A. will not discuss the nature of that evidence. Antelope Valley College Student Michelle O'Keefe, 18, was found dead in her Mustang in a dark parking lot in 2000. Raymond Lee Jennings worked at the mall attached to that parking lot, and like most men...
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...
A Burbank man was charged today with the attempted murder of 10 Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies followed by an eight-hour standoff in Bellflower late Thursday night, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Juan Manuel Martinez (dob 7/19/76) is scheduled to be arraigned today in Department 2 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Bellflower. Prosecutors will ask that his bail be set at $11 million in case VA142260. Deputy District Attorney...
- 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...
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....
