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  • Air France Flight from Paris to Los Angeles Suffers Engine Failure Over Greenland

    Observer Staff|Updated Oct 10, 2017

    An AirFrance Airbus 380 flight from Paris to LAX suffered a major engine problem over Greenland on September 30th, but was able to land safely in Canada. On 30 September, Air France flight 66 en route from Paris to Los Angeles suffered an engine failure over Greenland. The aircraft, an Airbus A380-861 powered by Engine Alliance GP7200 engines, suffered a failure of the number 4 engine-the outer, right engine. https://blog.flightradar24.com/blog/air-france-f...

  • Cause of Death? Speculation Mounts that Tom Petty Died of Fentanyl Poisoning.

    Stan Greene|Updated Oct 3, 2017
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    Fentanyl, also known as fentanil, is an opioid pain medication with a rapid onset and short duration of action. It also has a high risk of addiction and death. Did the same pain killer that took Prince Rogers Nelson and others from us, also take Tom Petty from us? The Petty Camp have released very little information. Their public statement is merely that he went into "Cardiac Arrest." Everyone who dies, goes into cardiac arrest. We know that Petty gave a concert at the...

  • Tom Petty is Dead At 66, after a Heart Attack and Final Day in Santa Monica UCLA Hospital

    Observer Staff|Updated Oct 3, 2017

    Update: Tom Petty did pass away Monday night at 8:40 pm. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/arts/music/tom-petty-dead.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news Petty was found unconscious at his home not breathing and in full cardiac arrest on Monday, October 2, 2017. Initial reports indicated that he had died, but they were later retracted as his death could not be confirmed by the Los Angeles...

  • LV Shooters Father, Benjamin Paddock, was a Bank Robber Described as a "Psychopath."

    Samuel Alioto, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Oct 2, 2017

    Las Vegas Shooter Benjamin Paddock's father was also a "sociopath" and a killer, it turns out. He was at one time on the FBI's most wanted list, and was sentenced to a long prison term at the time of his death. In 1960, Benjamin Braddock tried to run over an FBI agent in Las Vegas, while fleeing from a bank robbery. He was also described as suicidal. His son, Stephen Paddock, committed suicide in Las Vegas after shooting more than 500 people at a country music festival in Las...

  • Santa Monica Burglary of a House Near San Vicente Blvd, Ends in Arrest

    Observer Staff|Updated Oct 2, 2017

    Update, 9/29: Lt. Saul Rodriguez issued the following statement: On September 27, 2017 at about 12:08 p.m. officers responded to a radio call for service of a possible burglary in the 200 block of 14th Street. The reporting party/victim saw the suspect in his backyard looking through his patio door. The victim contacted the subject. The suspect told the victim he was looking for his friend. The victim called the police and the suspect fled. The victim followed the suspect to...

  • City Appoints Suja Lowenthal New Senior Advisor to the City Manager on Airport Affairs

    Constance Farrell, City of SM|Updated Oct 2, 2017

    Suja Lowenthal, currently the Community and Government Engagement Manager for the Big Blue Bus, will transition to the Senior Advisor to the City Manager on Airport Affairs. She replaces Nelson Hernandez, who holds the post until his retirement on October 6th. Securing local control of Santa Monica Airport has been a longtime community priority and was selected as one of the City Council's top strategic goals adopted in 2015. Ms. Lowenthal has served in planning and community...

  • @StephenPaddock of England Predicted to Have a Rough Day on Twitter

    Observer Staff|Updated Oct 2, 2017

    England's Stephen Paddock carries a baby on his back in his profile photo. He loves football, lives in Lichfield, and owns no automatic weapons, and had nothing to do with the October 2, 2017 shooting already being called the worst mass shooting in US History. Yet, he will have the roughest day imaginable on twitter. "Shout out to @stephenpaddock for having the most unfortunate twitter handle of 2017." tweeted a woman named KS. "@stephenpaddock I'd like to apologize in...

  • Reported Sexually Transmitted Diseases Reach an All-Time High in California

    Corey Egle, CDPH|Updated Sep 28, 2017

    SACRAMENTO – Rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) continue to increase in California, according to new statistics from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). These diseases are reportable to the state and local health departments. The data are presented in CDPH's 2016 STD Annual Report: a summary can also be found on CDPH's website. Over a quarter million cases of STDs were reported in 2016, a 40% increase compared to five years ago including, 198,503 c...

  • 79th Infantry Division Based in Italy, Takes On an Africa Focus

    Adam Jackson, US Army|Updated Sep 28, 2017

    JOINT TRAINING BASE LOS ALAMITOS, Calif.- 100 years since its initial activation as the 79th Infantry Division, the 79th Sustainment Support Command transitioned to a theater sustainment command in a ceremony here Sept. 23. With the change in unit designation comes a change in mission-from being a sustainment command with a U.S.-facing mission, to one supporting missions on the African continent. The 79th, now regionally aligned with U.S. Army Africa, an active-duty unit...

  • Robert Spencer Tells Santa Monica Women #Republicans About #PussyHats and #VaginaCostumes

    Michael Greer|Updated Sep 23, 2017

    The Santa Monica Republican Women Federated held their September monthly luncheon at the Beverly Hills Women's Club due to the overwhelming response to speaker Robert Spencer and the subject, "The Left's Jihad Against the Freedom of Speech". Those on the Right are acutely aware that our speech is being censored and silenced. As people arrived and gathered around tables, the talk was of how many ways our speech is being silenced. Robert Spencer began by saying if he were to nam...

  • City Manager Rick Cole: How Santa Monica Can Do More for its Homeless Population.

    Rick Cole, City Manager|Updated Sep 22, 2017

    We already do a lot in Santa Monica, but obviously the explosion in the regional homeless population (up 23% in one year in LA County) is hitting us with a 26% increase in our annual count here in Santa Monica. No one pretends we can solve homelessness in 8.3 square miles, but Santa Monica is determined to do everything we can within our borders. As to what's new, we are doing several new things and are working on more: · In July we completed a pilot joint effort between...

  • Maybe the Mayans Made a Typo--Doomsday Predictors Now Claim the World Ends on September 23, 2017

    Daniel Margolis|Updated Sep 22, 2017

    Not even a month after the United States was united in darkness for reasons other than the Trump Administration (i.e., the Great American Coast-To-Coast Total Eclipse), North America appears to be headed toward a cataclysmic demise. First, there was Hurricane Harvey, which basically swallowed Houston. Then came Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 storm that was so powerful it sucked up all the water from the ocean in parts of the Bahamas and turned Richard Branson's once luxurious pa...

  • Porter Ranch: Another Aliso Canyon for Southern California Gas Company?

    Nancy Kaufman, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Sep 21, 2017

    On September 13, 2017, activist groups Save Porter Ranch and Food and Water Watch hosted a rally, "Health Crisis Cover Up in North Valley! " The purpose of this event was to support Dr. Jeffrey Nordella, the only doctor helping Porter Ranch and San Fernando Valley residents cope with the toxic exposure from Aliso canyon," they said. According to Save Porte Ranch's Facebook page, this sudden termination for Dr. Nordella could be a cover up, since he was the only doctor helping...

  • Lost Power Caused Elevator Entrapment, Structure and Transformer Fires on 9/11

    Capt. Patrick Nulty, SMFD PIO|Updated Sep 16, 2017

    On Monday September 11th, 2017 at 10:40 a.m. the Santa Monica Fire Department received multiple 911 calls in the "Wilmont" neighborhood of the City of Santa Monica reporting various emergencies including explosions, and electrical wires down in multiple locations. The preliminary cause of the incidents was determined to be the result of construction crews excavating the athletic field of Lincoln Middle School, located at 1501 California Ave, who dug into buried high-voltage...

  • SMPD Reports Shots Fired in the Area of 23rd Street and Cloverfield Blvd

    Observer Staff|Updated Sep 16, 2017

    Santa Monica Police activity in the area of Cloverfield Blvd and Kansas Ave. Poiice are investigating reports of shots fired. Police are working a containment and are searching for outstanding suspects. Please avoid the area. This in an alert from the SMPD on September 15, 2017 at 3:25 PM...

  • Power Out Between 6th and 7th, Wilshire Boulevard to Montana Avenue

    Observer staff|Updated Sep 16, 2017

    Three Santa Monica city blocks located between Wilshire Boulevard in Montana Avenue lost power at 8:30 Wednesday morning, when a transformer blew. The outage is unrelated to the trenching incident at Lincoln middle school on Monday morning which caused several other blocks to lose power. The supervisor on the job, Paul, reports that power will be restored at 10 PM Wednesday night....

  • SMPD Evacuates Santa Monica Pier on 9/11 Due to Telephoned "Bomb Scare"

    David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Sep 12, 2017

    Update 7:15 pm PST: authorities announce that the Santa Monica pier is now open again to the public. They now term this event a "bomb scare" rather than a bomb threat. It is curious that the Hawthorne and Culver City police received the threat, rather than the Santa Monica PD. Update 6:40 pm PST: The LA County Sheriff's Dept determined that the "suspicious vehicle" on the Pier did not, in fact, present a threat. However, the Pier remains closed, and authorities are continuing...

  • Backhoe at Lincoln Middle School Caused Power Outages to 3600 Santa Monica Customers

    Updated Sep 12, 2017

    5pm update: Power restored to all 3600 customers, including stores on Montana Avenue. The excavation taking place on the School's athletic field, caused an explosion and an underground surge of power at the vault 3 blocks away on Montana Avenue. Parents converged at the gate after a robocall went out to all parents. The school does expect to reopen on Tuesday morning, and reports that all power is restored. Construction worker at Lincoln middle school operating a backhoe cut...

  • Apocalyptic Scene Across Florida Keys Revealed in Youtube Videos, Social Media

    Observer Staff|Updated Sep 12, 2017

    Hurricane Irma came ashore as a Category 4 storm in the Florida Keys on Sunday morning. The eye of the storm passed over Cudjoe Key. The Florida Keys are a chain of islands connected by the Overseas Highway. On a Facebook group for the Florida keys, one resident noted that Big Pine experienced "up to 14 foot surge . . . . Ramrod Key aerial view "no longer detectable" which means it's underwater not viewable by drones . . . . Cudjoe, Little Torch, and Summerland all hit hard" O...

  • LiveCams, WebCams from Key West Florida Suddenly Go Offline

    Samuel Alioto, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Sep 10, 2017

    Boston.com offers readers 6 free webcams they can watch from Key West Florida. Don't read too much into this, but the Live Webcam broadcasts from Key West Florida suddenly went offline. Liveweb cams on Google's Youtube service are also offline. This apparently means the feed, or perhaps the power, has been cut. As I write this, Hurricane Irma is 78 miles from Key West and appears to be heading directly for the island city, home of La Conchas. The lost WebCams are titled "Live...

  • Disney World in Orlando Florida Announces Closures due to Hurricane Irma

    Stan Greene, Observer Staff Writer|Updated Sep 10, 2017

    Update: This from Disney World, 9/10/2017, 7 pm PST: All: We have seen some recent coverage online from your media outlet that incorrectly states that we have not announced any closures. Here is what we shared yesterday afternoon. It would be great if you could please update your information. Based on the latest forecasts for Hurricane Irma and keeping safety top of mind, Walt Disney World Resort will be closed on Sunday,9/10 and Monday, 9/11. Resort hotels will remain open....

  • Magnitude 8 Earthquake Shakes Mexico City, Chiapas Thursday Night

    Observer Staff|Updated Sep 10, 2017

    The United States Geological Survey reports an extremely powerful Magnitude earthquake has hit Mexico City. A tsunami is possible. An 8 earthquake would make it the largest earthquake anywhere on the planet this year, and the second largest earthquake ever to strike Mexico. The Richter magnitude scale (ML, also Richter scale) assigns a magnitude number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ... As measured with a seismometer, an earthquake that registers 5.0 on the Richter...

  • Amazon Web Service (AWS) Infected With Virus, Reports Flint Dot Com Merchant Processor

    Samuel Alioto|Updated Sep 10, 2017

    Merchant Processing company went.com reports that Amazon Web services has contracted a virus or bug, which caused them to be off line for 24 hours. The email from Flint reads as follows: "Dear Flint Team, Over the past 24 hours our engineering team has been working around the clock on an issue regarding our servers. It turns out the issue was related to an AWS (Amazon Web Services) bug. We would like to inform you that the issue has been resolved and you should be able to acce...

  • Hit and Run Driver Kills Woman Crossing Wilshire Blvd at Federal Avenue in West LA

    Observer Staff|Updated Sep 10, 2017

    Los Angeles police detectives are searching for a suspect after a hit-and-run in West Los Angeles that left a local woman dead. It happened at 8:25 p.m. Wednesday, August 30. The suspect was eastbound on Wilshire Blvd as the pedestrian crossed in the marked crosswalk at Federal Avenue. The driver struck the woman and fled the scene without stopping to help her, police said. The victim is a woman in her 50s. Police have declined to release her identity pending notification of...

  • Former Obama Staffer Who Worked for Garcetti, Named Deputy City Manager and Director of Policy

    Observer Staff|Updated Sep 7, 2017

    Anuj Gupta's primary qualification seems to be that he worked for Democrat such as Gil Garcetti and Barack Obama. And as they usually do, the City of Santa Monica has awarded him with a quarter million dollars a year. Way to go, guys! City Manager Rick Cole has selected Anuj Gupta as Deputy City Manager and Director of Policy. Gupta, a Santa Monica resident, currently serves as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's General Counsel in the Office of Immigrant Affairs. He previously...

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