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Articles from the August 23, 2018 edition


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  • Santa Monica Pier Closed as One Woman is Shot; Police Search in Water for Gun

    Observer Staff|Aug 23, 2018

    There has been a shooting on the Santa Monica Pier, the first in 2018. Police have tapped off the entire Santa Monica Pier, and removed several thousand people from it on a summer day. The SMPD issued the following press release this afternoon: This morning at about 6:04 AM, SMPD Harbor Guards were contacted and informed that a female on the west-end of the Santa Monica Pier required medical attention. When officers made contact with the female they determined that she had sustained a single...

  • Conviction in Juan Castillo Murder from February: 18 year old who died outside SM UCLA Hospital

    Sarah Storkin, Observer Staff Writer|Aug 23, 2018

    Local Briefs Juan Castillo, 18, was found dead on February 26, 2018 at 5 am, in the 1300 block of 16th Street in Santa Monica. He appeared to be on the way to Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the head, but died outside the hospital. It was a crime that shocked the community. His parents noted that Castillo was a good student, a football player at SamoHi, and not a gang member. On August 21, 2018, following a jury trial, Sherwin Mendoza Espinosa, a 43 year-old male from...

  • As New Year Begins, SMMUSD Adds "Restorative Justice Practice" to all Schools

    Aug 23, 2018

    Summer 2016 ends Thursday. SMMUSD School Year begins on August 23rd. It is often said that real estate is more valuable in Santa Monica because of our extra-ordinary schools. Well, this year they're even more extraordinarily liberal. The District expects the number of children to stay same as last year, wrote District Spokesperson Gail Pinsker. That would mean about 10,800 students. What's new this year, in terms of programming or personnel? "We have two new principals in Santa Monica, Mr....

  • Heal the Bay Launches Online Water Quality Forecasting System

    Observer Staff|Aug 23, 2018

    Santa Monica, 8/22: With beach season in full swing, environmental nonprofit Heal the Bay today launched the Beach Report Card mobile application, which offers beach water-quality predictions each morning to millions of California ocean users. The group says that its predictions come from its proprietary NowCast system, which warns the public by 7 a.m. if monitored beaches have a high likelihood of exceeding state standards for bacterial pollution that day. The NowCast system was developed by a...

  • Two Toddlers kidnapped from Grandparents in Hemet, Believed to be in Venice or Santa Monica

    Aug 23, 2018

    Two children abducted by their addict parents from Hemet to Santa Monica, police said. The children are 7 and 23 months old. The children, Sione and Akanesi, were taken from the grandparents' home in the 44100 block of Gallipoli Place about 11:45 a.m. Friday by their parents, Samiuela Stevens and Megan Sweesy, and Stevens' twin brother, Hamani Stevens, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. The grandparents say the parents addiction and "mental health issues" caused them to...

  • Report: Trump Will Fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday, August 31, 2018

    Stan Greene, Observer Staff Writer|Aug 23, 2018

    Our source in the Trump White House says that the president is preparing to fire Attorney General Jeff sessions by the end of August. The two have butted heads since sessions appointed independent prosecutor Robert Mueller. Mueller may also be sacked in shades of Richard Nixon firing independent prosecutor Archibald Cox 50 years ago. ( in fact the joke in 1970 was that Nixon was a "Cox Sacker"). After the simultaneous plea agreement with Trump attorney Michael Cohen, and the guilty verdict in...

  • Senator John McCain dead at 81. His Friends and Enemies Laud Him

    Samuel Alioto, Observer Staff Writer|Aug 23, 2018

    Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has resisted a glioblastoma for 12 months, will no longer be undergo treatment, reports the New York Times citing McCain's family. Meghan McCain announced that he was discontinuing treatment on Friday, a sign that the Republican senator is most likely entering his final days. The Republican nominee for President in 2008 described his opponent, then Sen. Barack Obama as "A good man." He has objected repeatedly to the tone and tenor of the Donald J Trump...