Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Women's pole vault has long combined extreme athleticism with a visual spectacle that cameras love. Over two decades, a handful of vaulters have drawn extra attention for how they look in photos and videos as well as how high they clear the bar. The most durable example is Allison Stokke. Others-Yelena Isinbayeva, Clara Fernández, Alysha Newman, Molly Caudery, and Polina Knoroz-have also become household names among fans who follow the event for both performance and...
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...
Sofia Tsarsitalidou remains one of the most watched young long jumpers in Greece, but the 2026 World U20 Championships came and went without her in the pit. The 19-year-old from Ptolemaida, born 17 August 2007 and competing for Aiolos Ptolemaidas, still has a personal best of 6.25 metres from the Alexandrinó meeting in Alexandria, Imathia, on 24 May. That jump remains her listed World Athletics best and was the mark that first put her over the World U20 qualifying standard....
Jacob Coxon, a pretraining researcher who spent three years at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic on September 9, 2026, accusing both companies of racing toward self-improving superintelligence without acting responsibly and "gambling with our lives." In a thread posted on X, Coxon said future systems would soon be superhuman, able to hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. He argued that recent progress in those...
A large sinkhole opened under a Malibu beachfront driveway this week, collapsing pavement, damaging utilities, and prompting a local emergency. Officials say coastal erosion and leftover storm swell from former Hurricane Marie washed out the ground beneath Sea Level Drive. No injuries have been reported. The City of Malibu issued an evacuation order for 31 homes on Sea Level Drive Los Angeles County firefighters were called to the 31600 block of Sea Level Drive around 5:45...
A pedestrian was killed Tuesday night on Lincoln Boulevard at the eastbound 90 (Marina) Freeway entrance in Marina del Rey, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The incident was first reported on the Citizen App and has since been confirmed through City News Service reporting published by Westside Current. Police said the crash occurred about 9:58 p.m. Tuesday. A vehicle traveling south on Lincoln Boulevard struck the pedestrian, who was walking in traffic lane 3. The...
Santa Monica City Council is set to green-light the next concrete-and-bike-lane makeover Tuesday night - this time on 14th Street. On the consent calendar for the 5:30 p.m. meeting is a nearly $2 million design contract with Kimley-Horn for a "14th Street Two-way Protected Bikeway." Staff wants Council to award the work, declare it categorically exempt from environmental review, and authorize the money. Unless someone pulls the item, it could sail through with almost no...
TOLEDO, Ohio - A fire gutted the vacant former St. Agnes Catholic Church in the city's Five Points neighborhood on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026, causing its steeple to collapse and leaving the 116-year-old building a total loss. Toledo Fire and Rescue Department crews were dispatched around 6:30 a.m. after reports of heavy black smoke coming from the roof of the church on the 3000 block of Martha Avenue. Firefighters arrived to find the structure already heavily involved and declar...
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,...
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, with thunderstorms possible in some areas. National Weather Service forecasts issued Saturday and early Sunday called for generally light amounts-most locations a quarter-inch or less, with...
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...
WEST LOS ANGELES - A man was shot Friday afternoon in the Sawtelle neighborhood of West Los Angeles, and police are searching for a suspect. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's West Los Angeles Division responded about 4 p.m. Sept. 4 to the intersection of Sawtelle Boulevard and Ohio Avenue after reports of a shooting. They found a man with gunshot wounds. He was transported to a hospital with injuries to the head and torso and was alive when officers arrived....
Across from Crypto.com Arena, three unfinished towers still wear the spray paint that made them famous. Oceanwide Plaza was supposed to be a luxury hotel, condos, and retail podium - Beijing capital planted in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. Instead it became a $1.2 billion steel skeleton, stalled at about 60 percent complete after 2019, tagged across dozens of floors in 2024, then forced into bankruptcy. A local-Australian joint venture is now trying to buy it out for...
SACRAMENTO - Conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley sued California Friday, accusing Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta of trying to muzzle him after he started exposing alleged fraud in taxpayer-funded immigrant programs. America First Legal and San Diego lawyer John W. Howard filed the federal complaint in Sacramento on behalf of Shirley against Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber. They want a judge to declare Assembly Bill 2624 unconstitutional and block...
Tens of thousands of people filled plazas across Spain on Wednesday night, from Madrid's Cibeles to Valencia, Barcelona, Seville and Ceuta itself, demanding that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez act on the migrant crisis that has left a Spanish city of about 85,000 residents overwhelmed for more than a month. Spaniards are chanting that Interior Minister Marleska must resign immediately. The official count in Madrid was about 50,000. City Hall put the figure closer to 150,000....
A new investigation into Perla on Broadway, the first high-rise built in downtown Los Angeles' historic Theatre District in a century, found that housing marketed as starter condos has instead become a financial asset sitting largely unused. Independent journalist Yoonj Kim pulled deeds, assessor records, and listing histories for the 450-unit tower. Five years after opening, developer Broadway Elite LLC - the local arm of Shanghai Construction Group - still held 253 units....
A pedestrian struck by a car at Ocean Avenue and San Vicente Boulevard on the morning of Saturday, August 29, remains at the center of a grim neighborhood vigil this week, after friends posted that she was being taken off life support today. The collision closed the intersection while Santa Monica police investigated. The city issued an alert telling motorists to stay away from Ocean and San Vicente while officers worked the scene. That official traffic notice is consistent...
BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. - The annual pilgrimage to Burning Man began with a familiar rite of passage: hours of sitting still in the desert. On Sunday, Aug. 30, the first full day of Burning Man 2026, the line of cars, RVs, and trucks waiting to reach the gate stretched for miles across the Black Rock Desert. Wait times peaked at more than eight hours before easing to about five hours by evening, according to official traffic updates and reports from SFGATE. Aerial photos of the...
Update repairs were completed at 6:30 pm PST SANTA MONICA - A water main break on Michigan Avenue on Sunday, Aug. 30, left adjoining households without service, according to local accounts of the outage. City crews said they were working to isolate the break and restore water as soon as possible. Residents along the street reported taps running dry after the line failed. Santa Monica Public Works crews were on scene and said the priority was shutting off the damaged section, c...
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...
Santa Monica council candidate Derrick Townsend highlighted what he called an ironic first advertisement on one of the city’s newly installed downtown LED billboards: a promotional display for the homelessness services nonprofit The People Concern. Townsend, who is running for Santa Monica City Council in 2026, posted a nighttime photo of the large curved digital board on August 29, 2026. The ad features two people in conversation and the claim that “92% of the people we hou...
Updated Saturday, August 29, 2026--A glacial collapse on the Nepal–Tibet border has killed at least 633 people by the latest combined tallies, and more than 2,400 remain missing. If a large share of the missing are later confirmed dead, the final toll could reach 15,000 to 25,000. That range may still be low if official figures from the Chinese side of the border understate what happened at Gyirong Port. Nepal's death count has kept climbing. A Friday report from the N...
