Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Latest update: http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/06/05/news/all-evacuations-lifted-as-clabasas-topanga-fire-is-80-contained/1363.html Update, Sunday 6/5, 1:15 PM: Thousands of residents of Calabasas have been evacuated, and officials have asked them not to return yet due to the possibility of flareups. The fire has now consumed 525 acres of hilltops and burned several structures. Topanga has not been evacuated, as it is in Zone 1, but residents have been told to prepare to...
President Obama, visiting the "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," says that he is "worried about the Republican Party" with the emergence of Donald Trump as its presumptive nominee. When Fallon asked Obama whether he thought the Republicans were happy with their choice of Trump, Obama replied, "We are." The audience laughed. It was the President's first visit to Jimmy Fallon, and his first public appearance after endorsing his former Secretary of State. For readers who...
Concerns were especially high as the 46th annual Gay Pride Parade, America's oldest and largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning gathering, had expected to attract over 400,000 along West Hollywood's Santa Monica Boulevard by the 11 a.m. start. Sheriff's Lt. Edward Ramirez told City News Service this morning, "In light of the unfortunate shooting incident in Orlando, Florida, the Sheriff's Department is fully prepared to respond to a similar situation, shoul...
DODGERS OPTION MONTAS LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers today reinstated right-handed pitcher Frankie Montas (rib resection surgery) from the 60-day disabled list and optioned him to Triple-A Oklahoma City. Montas, 23, posted a 1.50 ERA in six rehab games (three starts) with Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma City, striking out 18 with only two walks and a 0.83 WHIP in 12.0 innings. He is in his first season with the Dodger organization after being acquired from the W...
The Santa Monica Police report heavy police activity, on the 1300 block of 14th street. This is the block between Santa Monica Blvd and Broadway. They don't tell us the nature of the police activity. The e mail reads in full: 1300 5th street closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic, heavy police activity This e-mail has been sent to you by the CITY OF SANTA MONICA. To maximize their communication with you, you may be receiving this e-mail in addition to a phone call with the...
Update: There is now a petition being cirulated to recall Judge Persky, who was re-elected to a 12 year term on June 7th. 44,000 residents who are properly registered to vote in Santa Clara County would have to sign it. PALO ALTO -- At least 10 prospective jurors who oppose Judge Aaron Persky's sentence imposted former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner prison for a sexual assault, more or less refused this week to serve on a jury in an unrelated case he presides over, says the...
A moderately large earthquake rocked rural Southern California nearly 30 miles south of Palm Springs. The epicenter was in the desert. The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.2 temblor struck just after 1 a.m. Friday. USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan says it was strong enough to have awakened sleepers. She says the shallow quake touched off a series of smaller aftershocks, registering between magnitude-2.6 to 3.6. The Los Angeles County Fire Department and the Riverside...
SourceFed, a news website with a very popular internet channel, has performed an analysis of Google search recommendations only to find that it appears Google is whitewashing search recommendations for Hillary Clinton. In comparison, Bing and Yahoo! produce fairer results. Here's how it works: Soucefed says news.google.com site’s auto search feature intentionally omits items that might be hurtful to Hillary Clinton. Example: Hillary Clinton CRI suggests "Hillary Clinton C...
An unloading accident caused an acid spill that prompted the evacuation of a Starkist Foods canning facility in Eastvale, Riverside County. 15 workers went to a hospital for hazardous chemical inhalation, said the Riverside County Fire Department. A firefighter also went to the hospital with unspecified minor injuries not related to breathing difficulty, officials said. Roughly 40 gallons of concentrated cleaning acid spilled about 2:45 p.m. Thursday, June 9, at the expansive...
Fifteen years after his first victim was found strangled to death in an abandoned Santa Monica home, transient Edric Dashell Gross, 50, has been found guilty of her murder and that of a second victim. This is the second trial for Gross regarding the two murders. A 2015 trial ended with a hung jury. In April, 2001, Jacqueline Ovsak, 42, was found raped and strangled to death in an abandoned building in Santa Monica. A murder investigation was initiated, but led nowhere. Over a...
What better place for a 73 year old to close out a US Presidential campaign, then a 100 year old pier? Bernie Sanders made a surprise visit this afternoon on the Santa Monica Pier. He looked like any other grandfather, as he rode the Pier's 120 year old carousel with his grandson. Sanders shook hands and stopped for photos and mingled with the always huge summer crowd on the pier. For more than an hour Sunday along the shops, restaurants and amusement park rides of the...
In a 2016 interview, Robert Shapiro said that he knew the gloves would not fit Simpson because he, Shapiro, had tried them on the week before. "I could barely get them on, and my hands are much smaller than OJ's." When asked if OJ Simpson was guilty of the double murder, Shapiro said: "There is legal guilt and moral guilt. As to legal guilt, OJ Simpson is definitely not guilty of the murders. As to moral guilt, I have never answered that question from anyone. Not even my...
It's sold, but Hugh Hefner gets to live there for the rest of his life. And with his life, that could be a long time. Even though he's 90 years old. The Playboy mansion, an historic even iconic 1927 villa in Holmby Hills, is in escrow to be sold to a financier who owns the adjacent property, according to the buyer's real estate agent. Agents love to brag about such sales. The mansion owned by Playboy Enterprises was listed for $200 million by broker Mauricio Umansky of the...
On Monday an LA jury recommended the death penalty for Lonnie David Franklin, Jr, also known as the "Grim Sleeper." Franklin was already conviced on May 5 of all 10 counts of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of multiple murders. He is believed responsible for the gruesome murders of at least nine women and one teenage girl over a 22-year period, from 1985 to 2007. Prosecutors presented evidence in the penalty phase that suggest he could be responsible for an...
Today Hillary Clinton wrapped up the Democratic Presidential nomination (AP). Roger Clinton, half-brother of former president Bill Clinton was arrested in Redondo Beach over the weekend on drunken driving charges, police said. Roger Clinton, who resides in Torrance, was taken into custody at around 7:20 p.m. Sunday after police stopped his SUV near the intersection of Torrance and Prospect Blvd. He refused a blood test, which is a defendant's right when pulled over, and...
Update: At a 5 PM press conference, LA County Fire announced that residents will be allowed to return to their homes at 6 PM. 400 Firemen declared victory over a fire near Topanga, as the weather turned cooler and 5,000 evacuees were allowed to return. Topanga Canyon Blvd is now open to traffic. Residents said the hills has sharp lines distinguishing burned areas from unburned areas. "The footage is amazing. Acres of charred hills ending right at the edges of the residential...
Early Sunday morning, 4 passengers clinging to the side of an overturned small boat were rescued from the water by Los Angeles County Lifeguards. A tanker saw the hapless sailors and called County Lifeguards at 6:20AM. The County Fire Department Lifeguard Division was on scene minutes later, in the waters just off Long Beach. " Long Beach Fire Department Rescue Boat 2 found an 18′ Aluminum Crestliner capsized with 4 passengers in the water," says the Lifeguard press r...
Update 6/5: Muhammed Ali shared his name with the Prophet of Islam, so he asked that his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame be up on a wall, not on the ground. It would have been disrespectful for people to step on the Prophet's name, so he made that request. Muhammad Ali has died of respiratory failure brought on by Parkinson's disease, an illness he battled for 3 decades. He died at Scottsdale Osborne Hospital near Phoenix, Arizona, surrounded by his nine children,...
A public school in Palmdale directed a Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff to call on the family of a seven-year-old child in order to forbid him from handing out bible verses and stories on a public sidewalk outside of the school. The deputy told the family that "someone might be offended." The child, who attends Desert Rose Elementary, had originally been receiving short notes with bible verses from his mother, Christina Zavala, packed with his lunch. After sharing the notes with...
The body of a woman named on a "kill list" found in the home of Mainak Sarkar, the man who shot himself and killed a UCLA professor in a murder-suicide on the university's campus, is at the morgue in Minnesota, KTLA reported Thursday. LAPD chief Charlie Beck told the station that a note found at the crime scene prompted authorities to search Sarkar's residence, where they found the list. Beck said it included several names. One of them was William Klug, the 39-year-old...
UCLA (AP) -- In the minutes after a fatal shooting at a UCLA engineering building, panicked students seeking a safe place to hide used belts, cords and other items to try to secure doors they said did not lock. There was no where for them to run and nowhere to hide. With rumors swirling that there could be as many as four shooters, senior Daphne Ying, 21, and others struggled to secure a door that swings out into a hallway of the building. They tied one end of a long cord to...
As Americans across the U.S. begin Memorial Day weekend, vandals defaced veteran memorials in California, Kentucky, and Virginia. ABC News reports: Memorials to veterans in a Los Angeles neighborhood and a town in Kentucky, as well as a Civil War veterans cemetery in Virginia, were damaged as the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day. A Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area of Los Angeles has been extensively defaced by graffiti. The vandalism occurred sometime during the...
About 2,500,000 people swam, baked, lay in the sun and otherwise frolicked on Memorial Day on Santa Monica Beach. The numbers however, appeared to be less than 2015, perhaps influenced by an apparent shark attack in Newport Beach. Traffic officers and city staff were posted at busy intersections and in and out of parking structures to help keep streets downtown clear of gridlock. They had been told to expect greater than usual crowds, in part because of the opening of the...
An eyewitness who saw a boy climb into an animal enclosure before seeing zoo workers shoot and kill an endangered Western Lowland gorilla named Herambe, claims the animal wasn't actively hurting the boy, and was in fact trying to protect it. The 17-year-old gorilla was shot dead by a zoo DART team at Cincinnati Zoo yesterday when a four-year-old child fell up to 12 feet into an enclosure. The worldwide debate is all over the internet: There are only about 200,000 Western...
Officials have shut down 3 miles of Corona Del Mar State Beach in Orange County, after a young woman was bitten by an animal on her upper torso and shoulder.The woman was rushed to an OC hospital, with injuries consistent with a shark attack. She had been swimming about 100 yards off Newport Beach, when she was apparently attacked or bitten. Witnesses say she was bleeding heavily. Authorities don't know if it was a shark attack, as opposed to some other animal or some other...
