Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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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...
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...
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...
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 Spanish regional lawmaker has accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government of abandoning Ceuta, colluding with Morocco, enforcing a media blackout, and leaving thousands of remaining migrants-including alleged criminals-in the North African enclave nearly a month after a mass border crossing. Virginia Martínez, a deputy in the Regional Assembly of Murcia, made the claims in an interview with GB News published around 24 August 2026. She described the late-July events a...
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...
A catastrophic flash flood and mudslide tore through the Himalayan border region between Nepal and China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Wednesday morning, August 26, 2026, killing at least 390 people and leaving more than 1,400 missing, including large numbers of foreign tourists and pilgrims bound for Mount Kailash. Nepal Police said hundreds of bodies had been recovered across multiple districts, including Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, Chitwan, Gorkha, Tanahun and Nawalparasi,...
Federal agents hit two high-end Downtown Los Angeles apartment complexes Tuesday morning in a dramatic early-hours operation that had choppers circling and residents wondering what the hell just happened. FBI teams, some in full tactical gear, served search warrants at the Apex and Alina buildings near 9th and Figueroa - literally blocks from Crypto.com Arena - and a second site at 1010 Wilshire. An LAPD helicopter touched down on the Apex helipad as armed agents climbed out...
On Saturday, August 22, 2026, at approximately 12:49 p.m. PST, a Santa Monica police officer fatally shot a man near the 1400 block of Ocean Avenue in Palisades Park. Officers had responded to a reported domestic violence call in the park (an area known for significant homeless presence). While interviewing witnesses, an unrelated man armed with a knife charged toward them. He ignored repeated commands to drop the weapon and continued advancing. One officer fired a single...
LOS ANGELES - Graffiti removal is underway at Oceanwide Plaza, the long-abandoned three-tower complex in downtown Los Angeles long known as the "Graffiti Towers," following a bankruptcy court-approved sale to a joint venture of Southern California developer KPC Group and Lendlease. The site, located at 1101 South Flower Street across from Crypto.com Arena, LA Live, and the Los Angeles Convention Center, has stood unfinished and increasingly covered in spray paint since...
Actress Hayden Panettiere died on Sunday, August 16, 2026, at age 36 in Greenville, South Carolina. As of Friday, August 21, 2026, the official cause and manner of death remain pending further testing, including toxicology results that could take several weeks (or up to about eight weeks or longer). Panettiere was found unresponsive in cardiac arrest at Judson Mill Lofts (an apartment complex where she had been temporarily staying) after a 911 call around 1:51 p.m. local time....
BERKELEY, Calif. — Zvezdelina Stankova, a teaching professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, has described a sharp drop in the mathematical readiness of incoming students, saying some arrive years behind grade level and struggle with concepts typically mastered in middle school. In an opinion piece published in the San Francisco Standard, Stankova wrote that office hours intended for advanced topics such as integrals frequently turn into remedial s...
ASPEN, Colo. - A young black bear cub wandered into a restaurant in Aspen on the evening of August 11, 2026, walking among set tables in the dining room before leaving, according to a video shared online by actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman. In the roughly eight-second clip posted to X (formerly Twitter), the cub can be seen moving through a formal dining area with white tablecloths, polished place settings, and booths. The animal pauses near one table, appearing to lower...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the December 2025 stabbing deaths of his parents, acclaimed actor-director Rob Reiner and photographer-producer Michele Singer Reiner, at their Brentwood home. The indictment, returned July 20 and unsealed today, charges the 32-year-old with two counts of murder. Prosecutors added special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder by means of lying in wait, along with a...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Two people were found dead inside a home early Sunday after firefighters extinguished a fire that engulfed the structure, according to local officials. Helen and Anthony Spaulding, both 92 and married nearly 70 years, died in the house where they raised five children. Both were reported to have mobility limitations and used wheelchairs. The blaze was reported shortly before 3 a.m. (around 2:50–2:54 a.m.) on August 9 in the 500 block of Lincoln B...
LOS ANGELES - Multiple AutoZone stores in East Los Angeles and South Los Angeles were broken into and ransacked over the weekend of August 8–9, 2026, following illegal street takeovers, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and local news reports. No arrests were reported in connection with the primary weekend incidents as of early coverage. In East Los Angeles, the AutoZone at 1131 Atlantic Blvd. (near the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Atlantic A...
Two federal detention officers were stalked and beaten by protesters outside a downtown Los Angeles jail Saturday night - and both ended up in the hospital. The attack went down around 10 p.m. near the Metropolitan Detention Center on Alameda Street, where a crowd of 40 to 50 anti-ICE demonstrators had gathered, LAPD said. The protesters followed the off-duty federal employees to their cars in a nearby parking structure on East Commercial Street. There, the group "suddenly...
A woman riding an electric scooter was killed in a collision with a commercial truck on Friday morning, August 7, 2026, in downtown San Francisco. The incident occurred around 8:18–8:30 a.m. near the intersection of Market and Powell streets (also described as Fifth and Market), close to the cable car turnaround. San Francisco Police Department officers responded to reports of a vehicle collision involving injuries. They found the woman in the street with life-threatening i...
