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Santa Monica High School Choir Performed at Notre Dame de Paris 3 Days Before Fire
4/15/2019: Santa Monica High School Choir performed at Notre Dame de Paris on Friday April 12, 2019, just 60 hours before a great fire that heavily damaged the cathedral. They may have been the last...
SMPD Officer Drowns While on Vacation in Kauai, Santa Monica Police Dept. Says
Santa Monica Police Officer Rashad Riley died on Friday, April 12 while swimming in the waters off the Hawaiian island of Kauai, writes Public Information Officer Lt. Rudy Flores. The release dated...
Roofer or Welder Starts Fire at Notre Dame de Paris, Building Seems Intact, but Heavily Damages
A fire linked to renovation work of the 870 year old Catholic cathedral, broke out after a welder applied a blowtorch to lead paneling sitting on dry wood. "Repairs to the lead roof required welding...
Venice Homeless Shelter Approved at MTA Bus Yard on Main Street and Sunset Avenue
A Venice neighborhood group has initiated a legal fight against plans by the City of Los Angeles to erect a 154-bed homeless shelter on a former Metro bus yard, a few blocks from the beach. The...
SamoHi Places Second in the National Ocean Science Bowl Finals in Washington DC
On April 14, 2019 Santa Monica High School placed second in the 22nd Annual National Ocean Science Bowl Finals. The finals carried the theme "Observe the Ocean; Secure the Future" in Washington DC....
SMFD Rescues Homeless Person Who Falls From Palisades Park at 1:30 am Tuesday
4/16/19: Santa Monica Fire Department says it rescued a homeless man who fell down the bluffs at 270 Palisades Beach Rd, and was trapped approximately 100 feet down the cliff. The SMFD had 4 engine co...
Downed Power Lines After Transformer Sparks Out at 11th Street and Idaho Ave in Santa Monica
4/14/2019: Idaho Avenue was closed and high voltage power lines lay on the ground in one Santa Monica neighborhood. The explosion and power outage began just before 10 am PST. "I saw flames bouncing a...
President Donald Trump Raises Money and Traffic on Westside Friday 4/5/19
President Donald Trump swept through Los Angeles last Friday after a trip to Calexico to discuss the situation at the border with Mexico. Multiple roads throughout West Los Angeles were closed at...
Suicidal Man Jumps From Santa Monica Parking Structure 5 in Third Such Suicide in 6 Months
4/11: Once again, a downtown Santa Monica parking structure has become the site of a suicide. Bystanders reported a hazmat team hosing blood from the street in front of Parking Structure 5 on 4th...
College Senior who fell from clock tower while taking selfie
Fox news reports that the young woman who fell off the bell tower, was attempting to take a selfie during a 4 am rite of passage. According to her social-media profiles, Monfries is studying...
Home Invasion Robbery Results in Charges Against 23 Year Old LA Resident
4/7/2019: Earlier today the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office filed charges on Brendan Bunnell, a 23-year old male, for a residential robbery. On April 2, 2019, at about 6:50AM SMPD...
SMFD Puts Out Fire at Coogies Cafe on Santa Monica Blvd
On Thursday evening, April 4th, 2019 at approximately 9:09 p.m. the Santa Monica Fire Department received a 9-1-1 call reporting a structure fire at the Coogies Café located at 2906 Santa Monica...
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the SamoHi Titanic with a $385 million "Discovery" Building
Ground broke on Tuesday for a new structure, dubbed the Discovery Building, at the Santa Monica High School campus. Its function is to replace the Science and Technology buildings which were...
City Council Enacts Moratorium on Permits for Micro Apartments in Downtown Santa Monica
The City Council is concerned about the apparent proliferation of small apartments in downtown Santa Monica. At the 3/26 Meeting, the Council banned construction permits for more apartments less than...
Los Angeles County Bans Monsanto's Roundup In the Wake of 2 Huge Jury Verdicts
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors banned the use of any glyphosate-type weed killer on county property pending more information about the chemical's potential health and environmental...
Over 15,000 runners complete the 2019 Los Angeles marathon
10,000 runners completed the Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday morning March 24, 2019. Security was tight and spectators were not allowed within one block of the finish line, probably to avoid a repeat...
Current Santa Monica City Council Saved From Election by California Appeals Court (For now)
The California Court of Appeal offered temporary relief to Santa Monica's current City Councilmembers, who were facing a special election this summer. Justices Elizabeth Grimes, Maria Stratton, and...
End Climate Change and Have Imperfect Produce Delivered to your Door
About 20% of produce is discarded at the farm because it is imperfect. A potato might grow lobsided, or the skin of a pear might be brown. Mother Nature doesn't insist on perfection, and a San...
SMPD Fentanyl Arrest Nets 2 suspects, $50,000 in drugs and $12,000 cash
Fentanyl is a major public health problem in the United States. Chinese pharmaceutical producers (not so much the legit ones) put it in everything from Vicodin to Benadryl. 1000 times more potent...
Hailstorm Drops Ice in Long Beach, CA Backyards and Streets on First Day of Spring 2019
It may have been the firs day of spring; but Long Beach, California, was his with a hailstorm on Wednesday, March 20. The hail was so thick it looked like snow, but quickly evaporated in the So Cal...
Poison Control: Roundup Continues to be Used by City of Santa Monica
The weedkiller Roundup, a product of Monsanto, continues to be used in Santa Monica's public spaces despite a recent $289 million dollar judgment against Monsanto for the terminal illness of school...
'Homeless' Man Sets Fire to House, Closes Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica
On Monday around 1:00 pm, a small house fire in the 1300 block of the Pacific Coast Highway closed all southbound lanes and the number one northbound lane. Around the same time, police were called for...
United Methodist Church Divided as Church in Ocean Park Aligns with Progressives on LGBTQ rights
Rev Janet Gollery McKeithen, the minister of the Church in Ocean Park (CIOP) was ordained in the United Methodist Church 35 years ago. She is the daughter of the late United Methodist minister...
Current City Council Members Must Quit by August 15, Unless Court of Appeal Rescues Them
Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos ruled on Wednesday that the City of Santa Monica must hold special elections via districts by July 2. Current members of the Santa Monica City Council are...
Sustainable Plastic - All We Need is a Nudge
We dutifully separate our recyclables and put them in a separate container for the waste trucks to pick up, but the fact is that little of that material is currently getting recycled. "In California,...
