Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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A capacity crowd filed into Catholic Church Easter Sunday morning on April 1, 2018. People dressed in their Sunday best (mostly), had to be re-directed to the gymnasium and community center which held satellite services. Six or so people greeted the faithful in front of the 100 year old cathedral with free coffee. Monsignor Torgerson himself shook hands at the Church entrance for the most important holy day in Christendom. Around the block, a smaller crowd filed into St....
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in stable condition after undergoing open-heart surgery, according to multiple media reports. During Thursday's surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center doctors replaced a valve in his heart, the LA Times reported citing his spokesman. The pulmonic valve, which was originally installed in 1997 due to a congenital heart defect, had to be replaced due to its age, TMZ reported. During the scheduled procedure, which was supposed to...
A Florida jury found wife of the Pulse Nightclub shooter not guilty of obstruction of justice and helping her husband carrying out the massacre, according to multiple media reports. Noor Salman, 31, would have faced up to live in prison the Orlando Sentinel reported. It took the jury 12 hours of deliberations before handing up the verdict. "I respect the criminal justice process, and we all to trust that the jury made their decision free of bias and emotion," said Pulse owner...
Police in San Francisco investigate after a driver apparently intentionally hit five people Wednesday morning following an altercation. A witness told local TV station KGO-TV the driver involved in a hit-and-run crash swung an ax at a group of people before hitting them and driving off. Four victims were hospitalized following the incident. The crash happened a block off Third street. San Francisco police say the driver had a physical altercation with five people and then...
A Federal California Judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a motion by Stromy Daniels to depose President Donald Trump under oath as part of an ongoing legal battle over a $130,000 payout from Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen to the adult actress before the 2016 election. Her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, promised to fight back: "We will refile the motion," he posted on Twitter. Judge S. James Otero of the US District Court for the Central District of California called the motion for...
Police arrested a woman early Thursday morning on suspicion of DUI after three people died and another was hospitalized in a fiery crash in Huntington Beach. Bani Duarte of San Clemente was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, according to Huntington Beach Police arrest log. The two-car accident happened just after 1 a.m. at Pacific Coast Highway and Magnolia Street, KABC7 reported. A...
Despite predictions, it was not sexually transmitted diseases that ultimately brought down Craigslist, the king of anonymous meetings. It was Congress that finally ended it. Blaming new legislation, the uncrowned king of free, anonymous personals has taken the ads down. Thousands of couples of every gender have met online though the ads, but they have apparently come and gone. In place of the women seeking men, men seeking men, men seeking women and women seeking women ads,...
The remains officials found in a shallow grave in Northern California have been positively identified as belonging to missing Hollywood actress Adea Shabani, the Nevada County Sheriff's office said in a statement on Wednesday. The 25-year-old actress was identified through tattoos during an autopsy, said Lt. Rob Bringolf with the Nevada County Sheriff's Office in the statement. Officials are investigating the case as a homicide, but would not give any details about the exact...
A source in the white house confirmed today that John Bolton would be NSA Director....
Officials will not file charges against two Baton Rouge police officers in the 2016 shooting death of Alton Sterling after an investigation found the officers acted in a "reasonable and justifiable manner," Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said Tuesday. Baton Rouge City Police Officers Howie Lake and Blane Salamoni had "good reason to believe that Mr. Sterling was armed with a firearm," Landry said in a statement. Sterling, who was shot multiple times after a struggling...
An Alaska Airlines pilot is suing the company under Washington state's anti-discrimination law, claiming its response was inadequate after she says she was drugged and raped by a fellow pilot during Minneapolis stopover last June. The Seattle Times reports Betty Pina filed the lawsuit on Wednesday at the King County Superior Court. Pina alleges that she was serving as a co-pilot and blacked out after the captain gave her wine at a hotel lounge. She says she later woke up...
At least one witness has attributed the collapse of a pedestrian bridge in Miami, to a snapped cable. Speaking on Fox TV, eyewitness Jose Mejia says that he saw a blue cable holding equipment in a blue box, snap. It fell onto the pedestrian bridge, causing the bridge to collapse. The bridge fell on at least 5 vehicles. It was intended to connect 2 sides of Miami's Florida International University. A local congressman confirms that a stress test was underway at the time of the...
Crowds were out in force on a sunny Santa Monica Sunday as people in the banana suits wheelchairs and some serious runners finish the Los Angeles Marathon. Under the watchful eyes of Santa Monica police, 10,000 runners in about five times as many spectators lined the streets of Santa Monica to watch the 26 mile race....
Tesla is reportedly planning on building a charging station and drive in restaurant. One such restaurant has already been built near Kettleman City, about 180 miles up the 5 freeway. Where else would you build a drive through hangout for millionaire Tesla drivers? You guessed it, Santa Monica. The old Volvo dealership on Santa Monica Blvd and 15th Street will be transformed into "be turned into an old school themed drive-in restaurant, complete with roller skates (like what...
3/9/2018: SMPD detectives say they filed charges against Carl Marcel Nelson, 33, from Los Angeles for a shooting at 5th Street and Arizona on February 18th. That night, several men were in a fist fight after exiting a nearby nightclub called the West End. The fight ended when Nelson pulled out a pistol. "The suspect shot at a male victim and fled the location. The victim was struck multiple times in the lower leg . The victim was found in a nearby car with multiple gunshot...
The SMMUSD organized a walkout at 10 am Wednesday morning, to protest the recent shooting of 17 high school students in Parkland Florida. They called for more gun laws, and laws to address gun violence in the United States. 2500 Santa Monica High School students gathered on the athletic field, and listened to speakers, mostly in favor of gun control. One of the young women who organized the protest, Jasmine, told us: "Today we had a walkout at Santa Monica High School we...
Those of us who've live in Santa Monica for a while have seen new police chiefs come and go, about every 5 years in fact. That way they take home around $2 million or so, and max out their pension benefits. Undeniably, Chief of police in this town a tough job, made tougher by the massive prison release that resulted from Democratic dominance of California politics, and prop 57. Some local residents have dubbed the Expo Line "The Crime Train" on social media. I've noticed that...
Update: At least one person claiming to be a witness wrote us to say: Your article about a man being talked down off a building ledge on Wiltshire Blvd is incorrect. The police were unable to talk him down and the man did jump off the building and was severly injured and was being attended to by fire and rescue. Three fire engines, an ambulance and 10 or so Los Angeles police department officers responded to the SAG-AFTRA building at 5757 Wilshire Blvd. early Wednesday...
The Opening Ceremony of the 2018 United Nations Habitat World Urban Forum #9 (WUF9) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia began with the raising of the UN flag and thunderous applause, costumes, dance, and singing as thousands of delegates and "high level persons" (representing 165 of the193 countries signed on to the UN 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development) convened in the large Convention Center's main auditorium. In UN fashion, UN security guards welcomed high-level badge...
Neighbors report that the Los Angeles police department is conducting a major operation Tuesday night at the Westside Pavilion. Just before 10 PM, numerous police vehicles were seen in front of the West Los Angeles mall. Coincidently it was just announced this week that the 30-year-old shopping mall would be converted into offices. The Westside Pavilion is a shopping mall located in West Los Angeles. It is owned and operated by The Macerich Company. It is a three-story...
Trying to please potential Democratic voters, the State of California declared itself a Sanctuary State last year . The Justice Depart has now sued the Golden State, saying that it is interfering with Federal Agents in the performance of their duties The Federal constitution says that border control and immigration are the purview of the Federal government, not the states In modern times, the country's largest state has been dominated by Democrats politically speaking, but it...
Note: This is a City Press Release by Constance Farrell, Public Information Officer, City of Santa Monica At tonight's City Council meeting, the results of the January 24, 2018 Homeless Count were released showing a 4% increase in homelessness, or an increase of 36 individuals over last year. This comes amidst a regional homeless crisis with 57,000 (2017 regional count numbers) living without permanent shelter countywide. Here's a look at top line numbers, which will be...
What's open 24 hours, copies, scans and faxes, and will be gone by the end of the year? The Kinko's building at 6th and Wilshire Blvd has a sign on it indicating that it will be replaced by yet another luxury hotel development by year's end. It's been converted into a FedEx since 2014. The sign describes it as a 4 story, mixed use project, but that probably means empty boutique stores on the bottom floor and $895 a night hotel rooms above. Because, you know, we need more of...
Santa Monica College and the City of Santa Monica will soon conduct a groundbreaking ceremony for the Santa Monica Early Childhood Lab School. It will take place on Tuesday, March 13 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on the site of the school-which has been subcontracted to the Growing Place-on the corner of 4th Street and Civic Center Drive in Downtown Santa Monica. The preschool was somewhat controversial. The perception was it's primary purpose is to service the needs of City...
2/28 Wednesday evening, Santa Monica Police were searching for a suspect at 18th and Georgina. A man claiming to have a bomb robbed a jewelry store on Montana. He then crashed into another vehicle in the 300 block of 18th street, then dropped the "explosive device" next to his SUV and took off on foot. SMPD's K9 and SWAT Teams were called in to look for the man, but ultimately did not find him At 5:36 p.m. police say they responded to a radio call re "Suspicious...
