Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Los Angeles police are investigating a hit-and-run in Pacific Palisades that killed a young film director whose father and grandfather are federal court judges. David Pregerson, 23, was hit by an unknown driver Dec. 27 about 3 a.m. on Chautauqua Boulevard north of Borgos Place. The driver never stopped to render aid and the UCLA graduate was found by a passerby on the tree-lined residential street. Pregerson succumbed to his numerous injuries at UCLA Medical Center on Dec. 31. Since graduating from UCLA, Pregerson had begun...
A magnitude-4.4 earthquake, centered in San Bernardino County, jolted a widespread area of Southern California early Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the 1:35 a.m. earthquake was three miles north of Fontana and four miles west of Rialto, about 50 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. “It felt like somebody (crashed) into our building,” said Sgt. Chris Hice of the Rialto Police Department. Multiple aftershocks were reported in the minutes that followed the initial earthquake, acc...
A Thousand Oaks woman acquitted last year of killing an aspiring model is suing the Santa Monica Police Department. The lawsuit filed by 48-year-old Kelly Soo Park alleges police damaged her reputation and intimidated witnesses. Prosecutors described her as a killer-for-hire who strangled 21-year-old Juliana Redding with her bare hands in 2008. Park was arrested in 2010 when police said she matched many DNA samples collected from the crime scene. A jury found her not guilty in June. Park’s lawsuit says three witnesses who p...
A Santa Monica man is among Gov. Jerry Brown’s appointees this week. Mark Silverman, 63, has been appointed to the California Board of Accountancy. Silverman has been an advisor at Twistory Entertainment Studios and entrepreneur in residence at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business since 2013. He was an advisor at WynnStarr Foods Inc. in 2013 and held multiple positions at ScrollMotion Inc. from 2009 to 2013, including executive vice president and chief operating officer. Silverman was a principal at YQ H...
Two chefs who worked at a now-closed Santa Monica sushi restaurant will plead guilty to serving meat from federally protected sei whales, according to court papers obtained today. Kiyoshiro Yamamoto and Susumu Ueda, who worked at the The Hump at Santa Monica Airport, are charged in a three-count indictment with conspiring to import and sell meat from the endangered species. The chefs and Typhoon Restaurant Inc., the parent company of The Hump, were initially charged in 2010, but the charges were dropped, later refiled and...
The man accused of using his car to kill an Italian honeymooner and injure 17 people on the Venice boardwalk in August will stand trial for murder and other charges, a judge ruled today. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Antonio Barreto Jr. found there was sufficient evidence for Nathan Louis Campbell, a 38-year-old Colorado native, to stand trial on one count of murder with a deadly and dangerous weapon in the death of Alice Gruppioni, 32, who was honeymooning with her husband at the time she was fatally struck....
A raised, landscaped median will soon be installed along Ocean Avenue, extending from the intersection of the new Olympic Drive to Vicente Terrace. The median is a required safety enhancement of the Civic Center Village Residential Project Development, and is a key part of the implementation of the 2005 Civic Center Specific Plan to improve the walkability of the street and increase safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists. Once installed, this new median will mean permanent access changes along Ocean Avenue....
From an urban puma's perspective, the news of late from greater Los Angeles has been mixed. On the positive front, a small population of mountain lions is surviving in the relatively compact confines of the Santa Monica Mountains, where deer are plentiful and cougars have found mates and reproduced. One healthy male mountain lion has made Griffith Park, in the range's eastern reaches, his domain and dinette for nearly two years. On the flip side, a cougar that would have...
A 25-year-old man convicted of murdering two people in Santa Monica during attempts as a teenager to gun down rival gang members was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Jose Contreras Zapien Jr., was also given a prison term of 95 years to life by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George Lomeli. “His life is characterized by his pride for his gang, but the strongest and most despicable trait he has is irreverence for human life,” said L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Andrew Cooper. Aft...
On December 11, 2013 at 10:15 pm, police responded to an assault in the 300 block of Santa Monica Boulevard. The victim told responding officers that he was assaulted while walking westbound on the north sidewalk after the subject approached him, cursed at him, and tried to instigate a fight with him. The victim, who was with a friend, told officers that he did not want to fight the subject, so he and his friend continued walking west on Santa Monica Boulevard. The subject fol...
Santa Monica Public Library presents The Affordable Care Act: Past, Present and Future on Sunday, January 19, at 2:00 p.m. in the Main Library’s MLK Jr. Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Boulevard. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the most expansive regulatory overhaul of the American healthcare system ever enacted. UCLA family medicine physician David Cutler, MD, examines the impact of this new act and how it will affect you in the months and years ahead. Dr. David Cutler is Board Certified in Family Medicine a...
A Los Angeles judge has postponed final arguments in the preliminary hearing of charges against a man who allegedly drove his car through crowds on the Venice Beach boardwalk last summer, killing a newlywed woman and injuring others. Superior Court Judge Antonio Barretto rescheduled the arguments for Jan. 8 after defense attorney Philip Dube said Thursday that he had only just received transcripts of the hearing and was not ready to argue. The hearing will determine whether defendant Nathan Campbell must stand trial on one...
A security guard found shot to death outside an upscale apartment complex in Marina del Rey has been identified as a South Los Angeles man. Patrick Odoikyene, 47, was discovered in a parking lot early Monday with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The investigation by sheriff’s homicide detectives continued Tuesday. According to a statement from the sheriff’s department, witnesses heard multiple gunshots and saw a man “wearing dark clothin...
Winners in all age groups to move on to district tournament Four Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica members were winners in the Santa Monica Elks Lodge 906 Hoop Shoot Contest held last week. This free throw program is open to youth ages 8-13, and provides participants an opportunity to compete, connect and succeed. The Hoop Shoot was held at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica's Main Branch, and the winners were: Luis Espinoza (Boys 8-9), Adrian Smukvitz (Boys 10-11), Deja...
On Monday, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced it has authorized the Navy to use sonar and explosives in a massive swath of ocean between Southern California and Hawaii. The ruling, good for five years starting in January, was no surprise to either side. Environmental group Earthjustice filed a lawsuit the same day in Hawaii federal court. A spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Santa Monica said his organization is looking at all options,...
This typically isn't the time of year most head out for a restaurant meal, but the city of Santa Monica wants to change that. "It's really important for us at the Convention and Visitors Bureau to make sure we're keeping our restaurants busy during off-peak season," said Kelly Nagle, a spokesperson at the Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau. Warm temperatures and the Rose Bowl helped fill local hotels, but Nagle says generally the hospitality industry sees a drop off...
Somehow, it didn’t seem that it was the end of the story back in August when the Los Angeles Times brought to people’s attention that L.A. officials had approved the huge Millennium Hollywood development without checking to see if it sits on top of an active earthquake fault, which it very well might. It quickly became apparent that a handful of other proposed projects might also be at risk because California officials never finished officially mapping 300 earthquake faults in the state, and local governments were poised to...
Earlier this week out in Santa Monica Bay, four traveling killer whales dazzled two marine researchers on board a boat. Lucky for us, the researchers had a camera - and recognized the orcas. The researchers were Alisa Schulman-Janiger, who has been mentioned here before as a studier of the orcas and whales that have moved into the bay recently, and Eric Martin, a marine biologist who is co-director of the Roundhouse Marine Studies Lab and Aquarium on Manhattan Beach Pier....
On a recent Saturday morning, Ed Williams stood off to the side at Santa Monica's downtown farmers market, scrutinizing a bright red mango like a detective trying to solve a mystery. "It looks damaged by hot water treatment, which is only used on imported mangoes," Williams said to market supervisor Laura Avery. Pointing to tiny white specks on the fruit, he added, "I think these are dead scale insects." Williams is deputy director of the Los Angeles County agricultural...
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is inviting all parents to participate in the district's online Homework Survey. Principals will use the results of the survey to develop and improve each of their schools' homework plans. Parents with more than one child in the district are invited to take the survey for each of their children. The survey is anonymous and will take approximately ten minutes to complete. Results of the survey will be reported at the group level...
Leaders of The Georgian Hotel presented the Santa Monica Conservancy a check for $7,200 as part of a fundraising event held at the historic hotel in October. “We’re just delighted,” said Carol Lemlein, conservancy president. “The Georgian has been a strong partner. And this is where we bring visitors and residents to participate in the downtown walking tours.” The Georgian, built in 1933, celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. Former guests included Clark Gable, Carol Lombard and Rudolph Valentine. Later on it became a...
Authorities are investigating the brutal beating of a transient by two men along the Venice Beach boardwalk that was caught on video. The incident happened early Friday morning in the 1300 block of Ocean Front Walk near Horizon Avenue, according to police. The video shows one of the men repeatedly hitting the transient with a folding chair and kicking him multiple times. A nearby resident recorded the video after a neighbor called 911 to report the attack. Police said they...
One of the most contentious debates surrounding the so-called “War on Christmas” in recent memory involves Santa Monica, Calif., a place once so filled with the holiday spirit it was nicknamed the “City of the Christmas Story.” Today, the situation in Santa Monica is starkly different. After housing a 14-scene nativity display for nearly six decades in Palisades Park, atheist pushback led officials to ban all unattended displays last year. This meant that the privately owned nativity was no longer welcome in the locatio...
Other areas of the country may be getting snow, ice or other bits of weather to remind them what time of the year it is — but in southern California, residents are retreating to the beach to escape the heat. On Christmas morning, the beaches of Los Angeles were packed with surfers and sunbathers, with no shortage of outdoor enthusiasts taking part in other recreational activities. “I usually spend (Christmas) in a very, very cold Boston,” Christine Lam said during her beach picnic. “It’s nice to have a second family. A...
Witnesses and the first victim struck by a car that plowed through the Venice Beach boardwalk in August testified Tuesday they could not believe the Dodge Avenger continued after striking a vendor’s tent. They recalled in the preliminary hearing a car smashing an ATM near the corner of Dudley Avenue and Ocean Front Walk at sunset. It came toward them across the walkway, knocking over a trash can and a booth near a patch of grass. They said they expected the car to stop at this point. Instead, the vehicle swerved to the l...
