Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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It appears that the suspect ultimately evaded police, in a barricade situation at 201314 Roseton, Cerritos. A barricade situation in Lakewood that triggered school lockdowns and residential evacuations ended Tuesday after the suspect, who was involved in a reported assault, was not found in the home. Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said they were alerted to an assault situation between a girlfriend and boyfriend in the 20300 block of Roseton Avenue around 5:30 a.m. The...
A widespread outage on certain Google products has been reported at 1:28 am PST, October 11, 2016. Downdetector.com says it has 50 reports of inability to login into Gmail, other Google products in US, Australia. Google Adsense is reporting obviously incorrect figures. We are able to use search and Gmail functions here in Los Angeles County, California. Google is the world's largest search engine. The company also offers Youtube, Android phones, Google maps, Google Talk and th...
Dear Governor Pence, I know this is a painful time for you. I know you pride yourself on your family values and faith. The recent revelation of your running mate's bragging about sexual assault flies in the face of everything you, and every decent American, believes in. It is now abundantly clear that Donald Trump does not have the character appropriate to be the next President of the United States. You and I may not agree on some other things but I know we can agree that...
At 00:56 hours on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, The Santa Monica Fire Department responded to a well involved structure fire, located at 2643 Centinela Ave, in the city of Santa Monica. On arrival, the first arriving engine company reported heavy fire from a third story apartment unit. Under the command of Platoon Commander Frank Evaro, units were directed to advance 3 – 1 ¾" hose lines to extinguish the fire. The fire was reported as a "knock down" at 0105 hours. One a...
NBC News, Friday Morning 10/7: Hurricane Matthew is leaving a trail of damage along Florida as it continues to bear down on the eastern side of the state Friday, and Florida's governor warned the worst could is still likely to come. "We are very concerned about storm surge and the worst effects are still likely to come," Gov. Rick Scott said in a press conference Friday morning. The storm left more than 590,000 people without power, as of 9 a.m. ET on Friday. Additionally,...
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that it is investigating the City of Santa Monica's policy intended to "starve" the airport into leaving. It has asked the City to withdraw its 30 day Notices to Vacate. The stakes here are very high. Can a city close a Municipal Airport by starving it of services? Pilots, the FAA and towns all across America are watching. "The FAA strongly recommends that the city withdraw the notices to vacate until such a time as this...
Matthew is expected to scrape western Haiti on Monday as a major storm bringing 145 mile per hour (230 kph) winds and life-threatening rain to the southern coast, while simultaneously lashing Jamaica. Eastern Cuba also will feel bands of fierce wind and rains on Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. They added that Matthew is closely tracking Hurricane Hazel from 1954, which damaged North Carolina after killing 1000 people in Haiti. The last time a Category 4 storm...
Friday September 23, started as any other evening for Roto-Rooter assistant manager Mike Jennings. He had just finished an estimate for a water heater repair in the Citrus Heights community of Crosswoods. On his way into the job, he had noticed several Sacramento Metro Fire units and Citrus Heights police cars parked on the main road of the intersection between Auburn Boulevard and Crosswoods Parkway. After leaving the job an hour later and noticing the fire units and police s...
9/30: This week the Vons and Pavilions stores in Santa Monica and the local region have been selling customers "reusable" plastic bags instead of providing the usual, more environmentally-friendly paper bags. The plastic bags of thicker plastic than the old, free grocery bags, cost 25 cents. The paper bags, when they were available, cost 10 cents. The use of plastic bags became a hot issue when local marine biologists and other environmentalists decried the eventual...
A " suspicious package" closed the Santa Monica Courthouse on September 28th. At about 12:45, Santa Monica police warned people to stay away from Main Street and Olympic Drive near the Santa Monica Courthouse. At 1:15, police and that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Arson-Explosives Detail found a suspicious package, that they ultimately determined to be papers and documents someone had left in the hallway. They gave the all clear at 3:30 pm. Santa Monica High School students...
A commuter train loaded with people crashed through barriers and into a New Jersey terminal during the Morning commute Thursday. Officials, who had initially said 3 people were dead, now say that one person was killed and 75 are injured. A New Jersey Transit train derailed during rush hour on Thursday morning and crashed into Hoboken terminal, one of the busiest in the state, and a huge commuter hub for those traveling to and from New York City. New Jersey Governor Chris...
Breaking news: when asked by MSNBCs Chris Matthews to name a foreign leader he admires, libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson was unable to name a single foreign leader. Today's #1 campaign topic: Fat. Today's #1 campaign question: Has Gary Johnson smoked too much weed? Good Lord. This is absurd. At Stuart Rothenberg MODERATOR: Where do you stand on abortion rights? GARY JOHNSON: On the floor, usually. -- Sam Grittner gary johnson is living proof you literally don't...
In another North Carolina religious rights controversy, a federal district court judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block a NC law allowing religious accommodation for magistrates who don't want to officiate or grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Judge Max Cogburn upheld the law, which allows magistrates in that state to recuse themselves from having to participate in same-sex couple marriages. Same-sex couples may still marry in North Carolina, as provid...
In Afghanistan, Herat University is holding a peace rally just weeks after the deadly attack on the American University in Kabul killed 14 students and faculty. In Chicago, a moment of silence and a peace flag procession will cap three weeks of events calling for an end to violence in a city rocked by more than 500 homicides this year. In Washington D.C., youth leaders from Nigeria, Morocco and Uganda will share their personal stories that led them to create organizations...
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,...
Police attempted to serve an arrest warrant this afternoon in Charlotte, NC. It's a community that has had riots and police shootings recently. Police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, a black man in the attempt to serve an arrest warrant. It was uncertain whether Scott was the subject of the Arrest Warrant, but Police say he was armed. His family denies this and says Scott was simply attempting to pick up his son from school. About 30 riot officers were outnumbered by...
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order that bars the Dakota Access Pipeline from working within 20 miles on both sides of the Missouri River at Lake Oahe. The Native American #NoDAPL protestors and their allies are seeking a permanent injunction to protect sacred sites and burial grounds around the lake. The court described Friday's order as "administrative," so as to give the judges more time to consider the merits of the underlying lawsuit. "The purpose of...
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, an Afghan-born American, was arrested by the FBI for the 2016 New York metropolitan area bombings. He was asleep outside a bar at the time, and the bar owner called police He was arrested Monday Morning in Linden, New Jersey after a shootout that wounded two police officers. One officer was shot in the vest, and another in the hand, both are expected to recover. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/us/new-york-explosion-investigation/index.html Rahami is the...
Authorities are investigating an explosion in a trash dumpster at 123 West 23rd Street Saturday night as terrorism. The event occurred at 8:30 pm New York Time, in the Chelsea area of Manhattan. At an 11PM press conference, Mayor de Blasio described the Chelsea explosion as an "intentional act." He said a second site four blocks away at 27th street was being searched. He said there was no evidence so far of terrorism. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) says 25 people...
Santa Monica has served thirty day notices to vacate, on two companies that service most day-to-day operations at the Santa Monica municipal airport. Atlantic Aviation and American Flyers are the airport's fixed base operators (FBOs in pilot parlance). They had master leases to operate airplane hangars, sell jet fuel and rent space to flight schools and offices on airport land. Without them, it is no exaggeration to say that SMO operations would cease. Which of course, is the...
Tuesday, September 13. Unarmed Native American "Water Protectors" protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline were arrested today, along with journalists who were trying to cover the action, and two medics who were with the protestors. All roads to the site are now blocked off, and there has been a near blackout of media coverage. Facebook commenters have said that their photo images of the arrest have been censored, and Unicorm Riot, which had been broadcasting...
Update Tuesday morning September 13: More than 160 firefighters eventually knocked down the blaze about two hours later, but several trucks remained at the scene Tuesday morning making sure no flare ups occurred. The 100-year-old two-story warehouse appears to be a total loss including all the businesses within it. Monday evening, 9/12: The Los Angeles Fire Department on its Twitter account is reporting a major fire burning at a smoking materials shop in little Tokyo near...
A car stolen from a dealership in Santa Monica, was involved in a police pursuit this afternoon. The pursuit ended on Washington and La Cienega when the stolen car collided with a Volvo driven by a father and an eight-year-old son. The father was killed in a collision. The pursued stolen vehicle I had at least four passengers. The female driver of that vehicle has been apprehended, is in custody, and will face charges and arraignment Monday. Other vehicle passengers in that...
Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton stumbled and fell as she left a 9/11 memorial in New York City today, September 11, 2016. Her doctors have announced that she was diagnosed with pneumonia Friday and put on antibiotics. Clinton and Trump had agreed not to actively campaign today, the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the United States. Update: Clinton unexpectedly left a New York City 911 memorial service early because of an undisclosed...
Protests across the country brought in a small victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their many supporters when the U.S. government promised to temporarily halt all construction on government owned land. Hundreds gathered in cities as far away as Denver and Tulsa to protest the fast-track approval given to Energy Transfer Partners and their subsidiary Dakota Access, LLC. Evidence indicates that approval sidestepped appropriate consultation with affected Tribes, as...
