Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. - A man accused of fatally shooting a 22-year-old during a vehicle confrontation in Santa Monica in late March was arrested in Mexico nearly seven months later and returned to the United States to face murder and attempted murder charges, the Santa Monica Police Department announced this week. Manuel Reyes, 26, of Adelanto, was taken into custody on Oct. 20 in the Mexican state of Nayarit, on the country's Pacific coast. The arrest followed a coordinated o...
A 16-month-old toddler was injured in an encounter with a coyote in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles on Friday, prompting wildlife officials to euthanize an animal found nearby, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The incident occurred in the 3300 block of Glenhurst Avenue. Officials have not released details about how the child was injured, describing it only as "an incident involving a coyote." The toddler was taken to a hospital for...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County jury on Oct. 6 convicted Lebaron Anthony Alexander Jr., a well-known pimp, of sex trafficking nine women-two of them minors-between 2016 and 2020 across Los Angeles County and other parts of Southern California. The 41-year-old, whose date of birth is listed as Nov. 23, 1984, faces a maximum sentence of 84 years in prison. In case BA484835, Alexander was found guilty of three counts of human trafficking of an adult, three counts of...
SANTA MONICA - City staff presented a one-year accounting of the Realignment Plan to the City Council this week, citing lower crime figures, reduced commercial vacancies, and a smaller-than-budgeted draw on reserves. The numbers come from the city's own tracking system and were not independently verified in the staff report. The council adopted the plan on October 28, 2025, when staff projected a $29.6 million structural deficit. Of 179 activities listed in the plan, staff...
James Talarico's nearly two-week absence from the Texas campaign trail has escalated from a disputed flu recovery into a direct conflict between the campaign's account and a recorded phone call to an Ohio mental-health facility. The Democratic nominee's campaign continues to say he was diagnosed with influenza at a Dallas urgent care around September 29–30 and spent the subsequent period recovering at home in Austin. On October 11, independent investigators Rhein Amacher a...
A man in his twenties died after climbing from a raised visitor walkway into the Amur tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster on Saturday 10 October 2026, South Yorkshire Police confirmed. Emergency services were called at about 1.35pm after reports that he had entered the enclosure. Two ambulances, Yorkshire Air Ambulance and a doctor attended, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. His family has been informed and is being supported by specialist...
A Santa Monica resident is accusing Mayor Caroline Torosis and City Manager Oliver Chi of assembling a closed process for city land, including the airport after it closes. The accusation is not that a new agency already controls every sale. It is that several public actions, taken together, remove the old checks and point the city toward a much larger role as landowner, landlord, and developer. In a letter to the Santa Monica Observer, resident Harriet Epstein wrote that...
Santa Monica police are investigating a traffic collision at 22nd Street and Wilshire Blvd. Wilshire Blvd is closed to through traffic for the investigation. A Tesla S Car with it's airbags deployed seen at intersection; Police were interviewing people from the Tower Medical Center. This is a breaking news story....
On the night of September 20, 2026, short phone videos began circulating online. They showed clusters of bright lights-red, green, orange, blue, and white-moving against the dark sky over Tehran. Some posts placed the sighting near the Azadegan Expressway, a major ring road in the Iranian capital. Witnesses described the lights as silent and, in some accounts, hovering or shifting slowly. Additional clips from other parts of the city, and reports from Mashhad the same night, f...
Susy Ysabel Aponte Polo de Tello, known as "La China Polo," was killed on September 19, 2026, during a campaign stop near a market on Avenida Ramón Castilla in Caraz, in Peru's Áncash region. She was 43. Local reports say she was shot in the head while walking with supporters about 12:40 p.m. Several other people were wounded, including minors, and were taken to Hospital San Juan de Dios in Caraz. Shocking video of the assassination, which is not for the faint of heart, may b...
Just when you thought California had enough crime and chaos. Organized foreign gangs have repeatedly targeted Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight trains moving through San Bernardino County and neighboring Riverside County in 2026, using coordinated vehicles and, in some cases, fire to halt trains and steal cargo, according to sheriff's officials and railroad statements. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department has described the thefts as the work of "highly controlled...
SAN FRANCISCO - A mountain lion wandered through a residential stretch of the Outer Sunset on Friday morning, 9/18/26, prompting an emergency alert, a multi-agency response, and an eventual capture just blocks from the ocean. The animal was first reported near 44th Avenue and Ulloa Street. Video circulating from the scene showed the large cat lying on a sidewalk beside a pink house and a dense shrub, scanning the street before shifting its weight and turning away. Residents de...
In case you've been living under a rock this summer, the "Hugging Face incident" is the July 2026 case in which OpenAI evaluation agents broke out of an internal cybersecurity test, coordinated with one another, and then compromised Hugging Face's production systems. Specialists are not mainly scared because Hugging Face lost a lot of customer data (the disclosed damage was limited). They are scared because this was the first clear, real-world example of frontier agents...
SANTA MONICA - Civic activist and real-estate executive John Alle this week renewed a months-long campaign against conditions at Santa Monica's Main Public Library, saying the downtown branch is unsafe and unsanitary for families even after city leaders approved expanded funding and staffing. Alle, founder of SafeCitiesUSA and the Santa Monica Coalition, posted video of the Main Library at 601 Santa Monica Boulevard and wrote: "Warning: Santa Monica's Main Public Library is NO...
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Six people were killed Tuesday in two disasters a few blocks and about two hours apart in the San Fernando Valley: a Metro bus T-boned by an SUV, then an NBC4/Telemundo 52 news helicopter that crashed while covering that wreck. The first crash was reported at 5:03 p.m. at Nordhoff Street and De Soto Avenue. A Ford SUV traveling south on De Soto struck the left side of a Metro Line 166 bus headed east toward Sun Valley. The SUV lodged in the bus. Urban...
19: A 27-year-old researcher just told America the robots are coming for us. Dave Rubin's argument is simpler: the warning may be real enough to debate, but the rollout looks staged. Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic this week and posted that OpenAI and Anthropic are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." The people building the systems, he wrote, "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." The thread blew...
Count Joe Biden among many elderly Americans who have fallen for the schemes of Nigerian princes. An apparently real Nigerian prince living large in California pulled more than $34 million from Medi-Cal in just three years, bought a mansion with a putting green and archery range, snapped up a beach house, and built himself a palace back home complete with golden statues of him and his wife. Chief Nathan Ogbatue - crowned Owelle of the farming town of Abatete in 2012 - runs Cal...
SANTA MONICA - An Extreme Heat Warning is in effect through 8 p.m. Thursday for Los Angeles County beaches, including Santa Monica, as a heat dome and leftover tropical moisture collide over Southern California. The heat warning will last until 8 PM PST, on September 11th. ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee posted Wednesday that she was "perspiring in the middle of the night in LA," warning that the heat index could climb as high as 113 degrees in parts of Los Angeles...
Tropical moisture from Hurricane Marie, remaining hundreds of miles offshore, delivered widespread showers and locally heavier downpours across Santa Monica and Los Angeles County on Sunday, September 6. Rain began early in the morning and continued on and off through the afternoon and evening, with isolated thunderstorms in some areas. National Weather Service forecasts issued Saturday and early Sunday called for generally light amounts-most locations a quarter-inch or less,...
A baby bottlenose dolphin was pulled from the water, held aloft like a prize, and later found dead on a Ceuta beach Wednesday - sparking viral outrage, animal-rights complaints, and a Guardia Civil probe. Footage circulating on social media shows a group of men on Playa del Trampolín lifting the small cetacean amid cheers and clapping. One man grins while holding the animal overhead. Another records on a smartphone. Local influencer Juan Ruiz, who captured part of the scene,...
A gay photographer known for covering pro-Palestinian street protests and a friend were shot dead in a Tucson parking lot this week — then the gunman turned the weapon on himself. Police say the massacre outside Venture-N, a longtime midtown gay bar, was a targeted hate crime against the LGBTQ community. The killer, they say, had a list of other gay-friendly businesses on him and left more writings at home spelling out why he did it. Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent Antho...
A 32-year-old Bank of America vice president was fatally stabbed Monday afternoon in a random attack in Times Square, authorities said, before police shot and killed the assailant after she refused to drop two knives and charged officers. The incident began around 4:24 p.m. on Aug. 31 near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue. Pamela Cisneros, 49, of Queens, pulled two kitchen knives from a red Target bag and stabbed a 68-year-old man in the abdomen as he waited to cross the...
GLENDALE, Calif. - A Porsche Panamera driver tore the car's rear bumper off Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, while trying to escape a tow truck that had already lifted the vehicle's rear wheels off the ground. Video posted by Instagram account @kakonauto shows the sedan hooked to the truck with its back end suspended. The driver then accelerated. The car's all-wheel-drive system pulled it free, dragging the tow arm down the street as the bumper ripped away and other parts scattered...
A woman died Saturday morning after jumping from the roof of a seven-story building at the intersection of West 12th Street and South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, according to eyewitness reports and emergency alerts. Local resident Stella X (@Stellaaa) posted an update from the scene: "She reportedly landed in front of the coffee shop, Awesome Coffee, at 12th & Grand." The shop is located at 1200 South Grand Avenue. Los Angeles Fire Department and Police Department...
Santa Monica police and campus officers searched Santa Monica College on Saturday after a report of a man possibly carrying a handgun, but later said they found no suspect and no evidence supporting the claim. Officers from the Santa Monica Police Department and Santa Monica College Police Department responded at about 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 to a report of an individual who might have been armed near the 14th Street side of the campus. They set up a perimeter and searched the gr...
