Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Bait Bike Catches Thief Santa Monica police say on 8/16/14 at approximately 3pm officers working in the downtown area were electronically monitoring a "bait bicycle" parked in the 1500 block of Alley 1 when they were alerted that it had been removed from its location. They say using a tracking device the officers were alerted to the bicycles new location every 10 seconds and learned that the bicycle was traveling southbound in the 1700 block of Ocean Front Walk. Authorities...
That mountain lions have managed to survive at all in the Santa Monica Mountains of California-in the vicinity of the megacity of Los Angeles-is a testament to the resilience of wildlife, but researchers studying these large carnivorous cats now show in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on August 14 that the lions are also completely isolated, cut off from other populations by the freeway. According to the researchers' analyses, only one young mountain lion successfully...
The 62-year-old airplane stowaway who breached security at San Jose's airport and made her way onto a flight to Los Angeles was arrested again Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport when she showed up without a ticket, police said. Marilyn Jean Hartman, a Bay Area resident, was arrested at 11:15 a.m. by LAX police officers near Terminal 7. She was taken immediately to the Los Angeles Police Department's Pacific Division jail for booking, LAX Police Chief Patrick Gannon...
Rod Gould, Santa Monica's city manager, said Friday that he planned to retire at the end of January. Gould made the announcement as the coastal city is embroiled in a debate over the scale and scope of development and as it prepares in November to fill three seats on the seven-member City Council. "I have relished my time with the city of Santa Monica and view it as the capstone to my 35-year career in public service," Gould said in a letter to the council. He has been SM...
A motorcyclist was killed Tuesday in an accident on the westbound Santa Monica (10) Freeway. The crash, which reportedly involved the motorcyclist and three other vehicles, took place just before 6 a.m. August 26 at the McClure Tunnel in Santa Monica, according to the California Highway Patrol. The man on the motorcycle was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. The westbound lanes were closed at Lincoln Boulevard as officials investigated. They are...
On August 12, 2014, as part of the unique deployment of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) resources to the California-Oregon July Complex Wildfires, Santa Monica Firefighter Joe Cavin, led by Los Angeles City Captain Secci and a six member team, was dispatched to a water tender accident where it rolled 150' down the side of a mountain trapping the driver/operator. The team responded and successfully extricated, treated, and rescued the operator with a two line rope rescue system...
Shots Fired on 5th Street Santa Monica police say on 08/09/14 at about 6:05pm, their officers responded to the 1500 block of 5th St, regarding several 911 calls of shots being fired from an upper level apartment. They say when officers arrived, they found three spent shell casings on the ground in an adjacent alley. Lawmen report a brief moment later officers saw the suspect, Bennett Morehouse of Santa Monica, who fit the description of a man involved in an earlier disturbance call at the same building, walk out onto a...
‘No Taxes to Fund Development’ (NTFD), a citizen’s group formed to oppose a City Hall sponsored tax hike that will appear on this November’s ballot, filed a lawsuit Monday, Aug 11, 2014 against the City of Santa Monica in Superior Court. NTFD’s lawsuit seeks to prevent the publishing of the rebuttals to the ballot arguments opposing the tax hike measure in all places including the official Sample Voter Guide mailed by the City. The lawsuit contends the City Clerk of Santa Monica wrongly accepted the proponent’s rebuttals b...
Big Blue Bus Fall Service Changes Start August 24, 2014 Route 3 is being restructured into two routes and 15 other routes are changing. It’s that time again: students start classes, commuters head back to the office after summer vacations and Big Blue Bus (BBB) adjusts its schedules and routes for these annual changes in ridership demand. This year, the fall service change will begin Sunday, August 24. BBB is making many changes, including a major service modification on Route 3 and other smaller changes on 15 different r...
A homeless man was charged with kidnapping, carjacking and other offenses Wednesday in connection with a 45-minute crime spree that began in Pacific Palisades and ended in Malibu. Brian Thomas Cruz, 44, faces 19 counts, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. His arraignment was expected Thursday at the Airport Courthouse. Cruz allegedly broke in a woman’s apartment in Pacific Palisades on Monday morning and, armed with a box cutter, forced her to drive him en route to the San Fernando Valley, Los Ang...
A motorcyclist was killed today in a crash on the westbound Santa Monica (10) Freeway in Santa Monica, the California Highway Patrol reported. The crash occurred shortly before 6 a.m. at the McClure Tunnel, said CHP Officer Francisco Villalobos. The motorcyclist, described only as a male, died at a hospital, Villalobos said. Hs name was not immediately released. According to the preliminary investigation, the crash involved a motorcycle and three other vehicles, Villalobos said. The westbound freeway was closed in the area...
In a setback for opponents of Santa Monica Airport, a Los Angeles judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a November ballot measure to protect the facility from closure. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Luis A. Lavin threw out the case filed in May by an anti-airport group that claimed Measure D was misleading, poorly vetted by city officials and violated the state Constitution and elections code. The initiative, which is backed by a coalition of airport supporter...
L.A. and O.C. are least affordable housing market in nation, Zillow finds Los Angeles and Orange counties are the least-affordable housing market in the country. And it's likely to only get worse. That's according to new figures due out Thursday from real estate website Zillow, which found that renters here need to pay more of their income to afford a place to live than anywhere else in the country. Adding to the affordability woes, Zillow is predicting that home prices here...
3 Arrested For Parking Booth Robbery Three men suspected in the armed robbery of a Santa Monica parking booth were arrested today after a freeway traffic stop, police said. One of the suspects was armed with handgun when the robbery took place around 6:15 p.m. at 1301 Fourth St., said Santa Monica police Sgt. Mario Toti. Officers caught up with the suspects’ vehicle on the eastbound side of the Santa Monica (10) Freeway near Centinela Avenue and arrested all three men, who are in their 20s, Toti said. The suspects were in t...
The train is coming! In less than two years, the Expo Line will arrive in Santa Monica. While the Expo Station will be ready on time, the adjacent Bergamot Arts Complex likely will not. This delay, however, should not give the City reason to rush into a project that lacks vision and contains many unresolved issues. The City’s initial description of the concept for potential developers stated: “The concept emphasizes retaining the concentration of art galleries and other art uses, providing space for a museum, creating revenue...
Theft of Bicycle Basket Santa Monica police on 8/1/14 at approximately 12:45 AM officers responded to a report of a theft in progress at Parking Structure #8, located at 1555 2nd Street. They say upon arrival officers met with the reporting party who told them he was near the entrance of the parking structure when he saw two suspects, Miguel Vargas-Velasquez, 25, from Venice and Diana Roque, 25, from Moreno Vallley, standing next to several parked bicycles that were locked at the bike rack. Authorities say The...
The District received a letter from PEER, a Washington D.C.-based environmental advocacy group, asserting that the District has threatened that teachers will be terminated if they refuse to occupy classrooms containing toxic compounds. In response, the District maintains that this is a distortion of the truth and has addressed this misinformation. In a letter from Superintendent Sandra Lyon to teachers, the District reiterated that no one will be allowed to go into any classrooms deemed unsafe by environmental experts -- as...
Block Party and Lorna Jane Santa Monica Place is celebrating this weekend with a free family-friendly beachside summer block party. The summer bash promises a good time with a live concert, beauty tips and giveaways and more. It’s all going down Saturday, August 9 and Sunday, August 10 from 1 to 5pm. [Racked Inbox] In addition to the summer block party, Santa Monica Place is also celebrating the launch of Lorna Jane’s new cookbook, Nourish. She’ll be on hand meeting guests and signing copies this Saturday from 10am to 12:30...
A surge that set off an explosion in an underground vault left 4,704 Santa Monica residents and the entire SM Pier without power Sunday night. The explosion was reported around 9:45 p.m. at Ocean Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, the Santa Monica Fire Department said. The outage area was bordered by Adelaide Drive to the north, Colorado Avenue to the south, Lincoln Boulevard to the east and Palisades Beach to the West. Power was restored as of 1 a.m. Monday, according to Southern California Edison’s website....
A former SMC student was killed after lightning struck Venice Beach Sunday was just three weeks away from fulfilling his long-time dream of entering USC and studying urban development, his parents said. Nick Fagnano, 20, of Los Angeles had been enjoying the beach with at least two friends from high school when he waded into the water to rinse off some sand from his body, friends and family said. Shortly afterward, a flash of lightning struck. "He was the best child a parent...
Man Stabbed by Woman Santa Monica Police say on July 22, 2014, at approximately 9:40 a.m., officers responded to the 1600 block of Ocean Front Walk after a caller reported a man had just been stabbed by a woman. The officers say they quickly located the victim, who was belligerent and refused to cooperate with the investigation into his injury, a small puncture wound under his left nipple. Lawmen say the victim also refused medical treatment. Authorities say a witness to the...
Biologists from the National Park Service released hundreds of California red-legged frog tadpoles this week, part of the first-ever effort to expand the range of the threatened species in Southern California. "California red-legged frogs haven't been seen in the Santa Monica Mountains since the early 1970s," said Katy Delaney, wildlife ecologist for the National Park Service. "Hopefully these tadpoles can help reverse the population decline of native frog species locally and...
SM To Consider Water Rationing Californians have failed to voluntarily cut their water usage by 20 percent, as Gov.Jerry Brown called for in January, so now the Santa Monica City Council is considering a mandatory conservation effort. At the Aug. 12 meeting, city staff will ask the Council to declare a Stage II water emergency that will include the implementation of water budgets, require all customers to decrease their water consumption and provide a fee schedule for...
Utility crews struggled today to completely stop the flow of leaking water near a 30-inch riveted-steel pipe that ruptured north of the UCLA campus, sending 20 millions of gallons cascading onto the campus, and Department of Water and Power officials said it could take days to get Sunset Boulevard reopened. The 93-year-old water main, which carries water to the area from the Upper Stone Canyon Reservoir, ruptured on Sunset near Marymount Place just north of the campus shortly...
The level of toxic contaminants in Malibu school buildings is "dramatically higher" than previous reports, according to two groups pushing for the school district to address the environmental concerns they believe caused several teachers to develop cancer and other illnesses. The test results mark the latest concern in a nearly year-long battle involving worried parents and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District that has kept some students home from school and forced...
