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Articles from the September 18, 2016 edition


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  • Dramatic Video of Purse Snatch, 2 Bystanders Intervene on Main Street

    Observer Staff|Sep 18, 2016

    Dramatic video has emerged of a purse snatcher pulling a purse from a woman's hands at Main St. and Ashland Avenue in Santa Monica. As the woman struggles with the perpetrator, two men park their car to pursue the suspect. He was later caught by Santa Monica police. The incident unfolded in front of the Starbucks on Main Street on Wednesday. Video is embedded below. The woman's purse was recovered. Good Samaritans left their car illegally parked in the intersection to pursue the suspect. I...

  • Carjacking, Police Pursuit Close Ocean Avenue at Colorado

    Observer Staff|Sep 18, 2016

    The block of Ocean Avenue immediately North of the Santa Monica Pier was closed to traffic after a car was stolen at gunpoint from a civilian. The car was taken in the 2600 block of Ocean Avenue, then pursued by the Santa Monica Police Department to the 1500 block of Ocean Avenue. "Please stay out of the area of the 1500 block of Ocean Ave until further notice," said a City of Santa Monica online advisory. Later police issued the following press release: This morning at approximately 7:15 a.m.,...

  • Chaffey College and Pasadena City College Finalists for 2017 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence

    Observer Staff|Sep 18, 2016

    $1 Million Prize for Excellence in Four Areas: Learning, Degree Completion, Employment and Earnings, and Access and Success for Minority and Low-Income Students; Winner to be Announced in March 2017 Washington, D.C., September 13, 2016 – California's Chaffey College and Pasadena City College were named today as two of ten finalists for the 2017 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the nation's preeminent recognition of high achievement and performance in America's community colleges. T...

  • SMC Student Hit by Expo Line MTA Train While Standing on the Platform

    Observer Staff|Sep 18, 2016

    A young man suffered cuts and bruises as an Eastbound Exposition Line train pulled out of the 17th Street Station on September 13th. This caused the train to sit on Colorado Blvd for almost 2 hours. A woman who claims to be an eyewitness says that the young man had just been dropped off by his father. He was on the island where it was permissible for passengers to wait for the train, and the train hit him anyway breaking his collarbone. Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, MTA police, Santa M...

  • Most Voters Favor Clean Power Plan, Even in States Suing Feds

    Voice Of the People|Sep 18, 2016

    As litigators prepare oral arguments for the 24-state suit to stop the federal government from implementing the Clean Power Plan (CPP), a Citizen Cabinet survey finds that two-thirds of registered voters in the states party to the suit (67 percent) actually favor the Plan. Eight states were also surveyed, including four that are party to the lawsuit; in all four – Florida, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas – two-thirds or more also support the plan. Across the country as a whole, 69 percent approve of...