Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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The lights went out at major landmarks and buildings throughout Los Angeles for one hour on Friday night as part of a promotion aimed at urging Angelenos to conserve energy this summer. Mayor Eric Garcetti kicked off the campaign calling for energy conservation, with the region expected to face a natural gas supply shortage brought on by a months-long gas leak at Southern California Gas Co.'s Aliso Canyon storage facility. City Hall, the Urban Lights art exhibit at the Los...
A hot air balloon carrying 16 passengers crashed about 35 miles south east of Austin Texas. The fiery crash Sunday in a rural area appears to have killed all on board. On average of 12 crashes a year in the United States involved balloons and kills about 78 people on average. About half of these crashes involve collisions with objects such as high tension wires. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident and the names of the passengers have not yet...
Other than Monica Lewinsky, Chandra Levy is the most famous DC intern in History. But she's famous for a bad reason: Having an affair with a Congressman, Gary Condit, then being murdered while jogging in a DC park in 2001. On Thursday, July 28, the illegal alien convicted of her murder, Ingmar Guandique, was cleared of all charges by the prosecutor's office. He will soon be deported to El Salvador. Guandique's 2005 conviction was based on the testimony of his cellmate,...
Nearly four years following his brutal death, some measure of justice has been found for murdered Hector Jauregui Campos, 24. On September 7, 2012, Campos was shot twice, beaten, strangled, and yet survived a trip to the hospital and did not succumb to his injuries until the next day. On July 25, 2016, four men were convicted of kidnapping and murdering Campos. The incident began in the Mira Loma home belonging to the mother and stepfather of defendant Rafael Bravo, 25. T...
A conviction was obtained for a Victorville woman who swindled $200,000 from an elderly man in 2013. Shirley Chrissy Urick, 34, met the victim, a 78-year-old man, in a grocery store parking lot in the summer of 2013. She befriended him and told him her name was Gina Lee. With a series of clever lies, she convinced him she was in urgent need of money and would pay him back. This led to 16 months of "loans" from the victim to Urick. The victim even paid some of her living...
Two Los Angeles men were convicted Tuesday of carrying out a string of mostly small-scale robberies across Los Angeles in 2013. Dominic Dorsey, 48, of Hollywood, and Reginald Bailey, 71, of Jefferson Park, were convicted by a downtown federal jury of conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce in violation of the federal Hobbs Act, and five specific Hobbs Act robberies and five counts of using a firearm during the robberies. They were nicknamed the "Cowboy Bandits" becaus...
The Sand Fire north of Santa Clarita has burned 38,500 acres as of Wednesday Morning. But the fire is 40% contained, and firefighters believe they will have a handle on the fire by Friday, a week after it broke out. Most of the 3000 people evacuated by the fire have been allowed to return. 2 movie studios, one of them over 40 years old, were destroyed by the fire. One body was found in a car, though it isn't clear how that man died. Nearly 3,000 firefighters from a number of...
Friday, July 22, 2016, Santa Monica Firefighters answered a request from the Los Angeles County Fire Department for Immediate need Mutual Aid, to assist with the battle against the Sand Fire. The Fire began Friday after a day of extremely warm temperatures. The 2 Engine Companies, comprised of 8 firefighters, returned to Santa Monica at 10:00 PM Monday evening. The Santa Monica Strike Team assisted in the fire fight in the areas of Kagel Canyon, Bear Divide, Soledad Canyon,...
Alexander Anthony Clever, 28, today pleaded no contest to murdering his then-35-year-old girlfriend in a motel in Pomona. Clever not only plead to first degree murder, but admitted the special circumstance of committing torture during the course of the murder. On November 29, 2014, Clever, his girlfriend, Yvette Silva, and two others were in a motel on South Garey Avenue, near the junction of the 60 and 71 freeways. The couple's companions could hear Clever and Silva arguing i...
- 7 PM 7/26 Return Home for Many Evacuees - Cloud Caused by Controlled Burn - FEMA provides Fire Management Assistance Grant - Wildfire Regions are No-Fly Zones for Drones - Donations can go to the Red Cross or your Local Fire Station - Donations Also Needed for the Care of Hundreds of Animals - LA County Declares Local State of Emergency - Acting Governor Tom Torlakson declares LA County State of Emergency On Monday afternoon, a huge cloud of smoke from the Sand Fire was...
Churchgoers pleaded with attackers not to kill priest, nun tells CNN affiliate Tuesday , in Normandy, northern France, two Islamic State terrorists killed 86-year-old priest Jacques Hamel (born 1930 in Darnétal) of the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, during Mass. Two nuns and two churchgoers were taken hostage. The attackers were shot and killed by Rouen's BRI police after they left the church. A Priest was killed after two men take hostages in Catholic church in N...
7/26 update: Earlier Tuesday, another wildfire caused officials to close the signature state parks of California's grand Big Sur coast. Closures as of Tuesday included Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, Andrew Molera State Park and Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, among others. California state parks spokesman Dennis Weber says facilities aren't threatened. Nevertheless, officials decided to clear the public for safety and to keep roads clear and avoid exposure to bad air quality....
Update 7 PM 7/24: Sand Fire continues to move at a rapid speed. The Santa Monica Animal Shelter is collecting animal crates to help relocate animals. There are many animal sanctuaries and rescues in the areas now being evacuated. Contact your local shelter or go to #sandfire on Twitter to see if there is a way for you to help. Current Evacuation Zones: Sierra Hwy at Shady Lane to Sierra Hwy at 14 / Escondido at 14 to Sierra Hwy at 14 Agua Dulce Canyon Road north to the 14...
The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties for the weekend of July 23–24. All residents are urged to exercise extreme caution during these hot, dry days because a simple spark could cause a major wildfire. A Red Flag Warning is the highest alert level, issued for weather events which may result in extreme fire behavior that will occur within 24 hours. Red Flag Warnings & Fire Weather Watches are i...
The Sand Fire has burned an area the size of Manhattan. The 1,500 families who have been evacuated no doubt find this very real, and if they didn't subscribe to climate change theories in the past, they certainly do now. Like a Hollywood film about the Apocalypse, the huge fire North of Los Angeles has caused an exodus of people, death, destruction and hand wringing. I don't mean to make light of this tragedy, and I'm hardly a religious person. But even I see a few...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has posted the following information for those who might be affected by the ongoing Sand Fire northeast of Los Angeles. Posted 7 pm Sunday July 24. #SandFire Spreading North into Placerita Canyon, Thank you for Evacuating, Sand Canyon Los Angeles County Firefighters and Sheriff's Deputies, along with many other police agencies, organizations, and volunteers continue to battle the Sand Fire affecting residents in the Sand Canyon are...
Two people were killed and at least 16 others wounded in a shooting early Monday morning at the Club Blu in Fort Myers, Florida. A 14-year-old and a high school basketball star lost their lives as the nightclub hosted a late night teen event called the "Swimsuit Glow Party." Two other locations were involved in the incident, and the police have detained three people for questioning. Police were first called to Club Blu at 12:30 a.m. on Monday. They arrived to find several...
7/23: In Santa Monica and elsewhere in Los Angeles, the sunlight appears to be red. Particles arise into the atmosphere from a forest fire, sometimes traveling for miles. The particles produce a scattering effect upon the component parts of white light. The Sand Fire in Santa Clarita has now burned more than 20,000 acres. Update 4 PM: it's now cooler outside my apartment then inside in Santa Monica. This is because the cloud of smoke has completely obscured the sun....
Attorney Jonathan Stein has informed the City Manager Rick Cole, that he is filing 8,473 tort claims against the City of Santa Monica for running a "nuisance" at the airport. A government tort claim is a condition precedent to filing a class action lawsuit against the City. The jet noise and other pollution at the airport, Stein says, constitutes a nuisance and in one particular case filed by the City Manager himself, the jury found "jet-powered aircraft operations at Santa...
A shooting began at a McDonald's in a shopping mall in Munich Germany, with as many as 9 people reported shot and killed, plus the perpetrator, a man of Iranian descent. At 0:34 CEST (22:34 UTC), the Munich Police department tweeted their belief that they had found the suspect, a lone gunman, who committed suicide. At 02:20 CEST, the Munich Police Department held a press conference. Police commissioner Hubertus Andrä confirmed the events that took place and identified the...
The Super 8 Motel, a large hotel near the 215 and 10 freeway interchange was heavily damaged by a brush fire that crossed the road and involved two buildings belonging to the Super 8 late Thursday night. The fire in the San Bernardino County has caused considerable damage to the Super 8 Motel. It was evacuated, along with 2 other hotels, La Quinta Inn and the Doubletree Motel. No people were reported as injured. The San Bernardino County Fire Department extinguished the fire...
Leaders of the Black Lives Matter Movement have charged Pokemon Go, Nintendo's new hit game app, with inherent racism. No, I'm not making this up. There are three respects in which Pokemon Go is regarded as racist by those in the know in the BLM movement. The first respect, is that it's much safer to play Pokemon Go, which requires you to walk around your own neighborhood; if you're white and living in your own neighborhood. Second, if you're black and you play Pokemon in Beve...
A Santa Monica area transient has been charged with the kidnapping and rape of four women between January of this year and July 2. Pablo Carlos Pineda, 32, though homeless, resides in the bay community of Santa Monica. According to the LA District Attorney, Pineda is alleged to have conducted his first sexual attack in Santa Monica on January 13. He is also believed to have raped a woman the next month, on February 5. By April, he'd moved his criminal activity to Beverly...
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office believes they have apprehended the man responsible for defacing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall on Sunset Avenue in Venice. Before the Memorial Day weekend, graffiti appeared on the wall, which has become an icon for the Venice and West Los Angeles neighborhoods regarding the service and sacrifice given to the United States by those in the armed services. The mural bears the title "You Are Not Forgotten" and lists the names of...
It has allowed people to travel more cheaply and allows tenants to make money off of spare bedrooms. But at the same time it has emptied out entire neighborhoods of homes and replaced families with hotel guests. It is called AIRBNB, short for Air Bed N Breakfast. And it is about to be legal and taxed in the city of Los Angeles. Airbnb will soon begin collecting a 14% tourist tax for the City of Los Angeles. The deal, announced on July 18, is expected to provide more than $5...
