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Two Men Charged With Stealing 10,000 Postal Money Orders Worth $5.1 Million
U.S. Postal Service employee Dewayne Morris Sr. and his son and namesake were charged in federal court with multiple felony counts of bank fraud and conspiracy in connection with the theft of $5...
Laguna Woods Shooter Allegedly Hated Taiwan; Gascon Will Allow Some Cash Bail; SF DA Chesa Boudin Secured Only 3 Drug Convictions Last Year; Angel Stadium Sale Held Up for FBI Probe and Other Stories: Monday Morning Memo
Policy/Legal/Political A 'no party preference' prosecutor could shake up California attorney general's race As a prosecutor, Anne Marie Schubert has thrived on being able to pull off what seemed...
Three young women found unresponsive, in apparent fentanyl overdose in Santa Monica Tuesday night
5.25: Three young women found unresponsive in apparent fentanyl overdose in Santa Monica. A large number of police and fire fighters responded to the incident, near Santa Monica college late last...
City of Santa Monica Turns Off Lights in Downtown Alley During Demolition Process of Parking Structure Three and Chaos Ensues
May 26, 2022 - Property owners surrounding the former downtown Santa Monica parking structure 3 noticed that the lights attached to the building were permanently shut off on Tuesday evening, May 10,...
First Case of Monkeypox Confirmed in California
May 26, 2022 - Barbara Ferrer, director of the LA County Department of Public Health, announced at her media briefing today that a first case of Monkeypox has been confirmed in the Sacramento area of...
Izzy's Restaurant is Apparently Closed for Good on Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica.
Oy gevalt. Izzy's restaurant, which used to sport optimistic signs saying, "See you again soon!" now has signs that say, "For Lease." It appears that the fifty year old restaurant has closed for...
No Serious Teeth to Street Vending Legislation: Senator Ben Allen's Proposed Law Does not Allow Criminal Punishment of Unpermitted Street Vendors
May 27, 2022 - California State Senator Ben Allen's law, SB 1290, which he alleges addresses regulating street vendors, such as those who've spent time crowding the Santa Monica Pier, does not...
Russian Men Are Receiving General Mobilization Orders From Russian Ministry of Defense to Fight in #Ukraine
On Twitter it is reported that Russian men are receiving notices drafting them into the Russian army. A photo of a mobilization notice was posted to Facebook. "Unannounced mobilization! Today we...
Return of the US Postal Service Dropbox to Will Rogers Station in Santa Monica
Thank God for life's little pleasures! The mailbox in front of Will Rogers station post office, at Euclid and Wilshire, is once again bolted in the cement where it belongs. So now you can once again...
24 Months After Completion, the Massive Block Apartments on Lincoln Blvd in Santa Monica are Empty
What was built on the former Norms restaurant site at Colorado and Lincoln Blvd at a cost of $40 million, is five stories tall and is pretty much devoid of people? Convinced that renters could and...
Covid-19 Vaccines Have Declined in Relative Efficacy in Los Angeles County in Terms of Both Transmission and Death Rates Although Death Rates Themselves Have Declined
May 19, 2022 - Covid-19 vaccines were relatively more efficacious in preventing transmission and death seven months ago than they are today although they were never very effective at preventing...
Disney Executive Testifies that Amber Heard's Editorial in the Washington Post, Was Not the Reason they Dropped Depp from Pirates.
Angela Shaw is part of communications dept at Disney. She said that her job was to keep them appraised of developments with Johnny Depp, because he was a star. My notes follow: Letter from UK that lab...
Amber Heard accused of Editing Photos Showing Injuries Inflicted by Johnny Depp
Testimony in the much watched Amber Heard vs Johnny Depp trial continued on Tuesday in a Virginia Courtroom. Depp's attorney Elizabeth Zellner accused Amber heard of editing the photos of May 2016...
Johnny Depp Promised Amber Heard She Would Never See His Eyes Again, for Accusing Him of Domestic Violence
The civil trial of Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard et al, resumed in a Virginia court room Monday morning. Heard was on the witness stand, being cross examined by Johnny Depp's lawyer, Kathleen Zellner....
Santa Monica Homeless Count Shows More Homeless Unsheltered on the Street
May 12, 2022 - The 2022 Homeless Count was released by the City of Santa Monica on May 5, approximately two-and-a-half months after it was conducted on February 23. While the absolute number of...
Covid-19 Cases May Be Increasing in Los Angeles County with BA2 Variant of Omicron, But Serious Illness is Not
May 11, 2022 - Covid-19 cases have slowly been increasing across Los Angeles County. Due to the number of home tests available and free, there are perhaps even more cases than public officials know....
Gene Editing via Crispr Tech to Prevent Heart Attacks
WASHINGTON, DC, May 13 – The covid virus killed some 460,000 Americans last year, heart disease killed nearly 700,000 people in the U.S. in the same period. The fact is that heart attacks are the...
Commander of Ukraine Troops in Mariupol Appeals to Elon Musk to Free them from Azovstal Plant
Sergei Voynal is the Acting Commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, which consists of around 1000 Ukrainian troops now trapped in the Avostal steel plant in the middle of Mariupol. With the...
Significant Inaccuracy in Santa Monica Mayor Sue Himmelrich's Literature Touting her Pet Transfer Tax Ballot Initiative
May 5, 2022 - Santa Monica Mayor Sue Himmelrich has printed a significant inaccuracy in her campaign handout literature regarding her proposed "Homelessness Prevention and Affordable Housing"...
Ukraine Military Retracts Claim to Have Sunk a 408 Foot Frigate, the Admiral Makarov, in the Black Sea
Update 5.7.23 an advisor to Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovych said that the report was a 'misunderstanding', and that the vessel attacked near Snake Island was actually a...
Cool Tech Coming to Santa Monica Police Department, but Who Can They Actually Arrest?
May 3, 2022 - Santa Monica Police Chief Ramon Batista met members of the public at an event sponsored by the Santa Monica Protective Association on Sunday and Monday evenings. The event, held at a...
Downtown Santa Monica Partially Evacuated Due to Gas Leak
5.2.22: The Third Street Promenade was evacuated Monday afternoon, because a construction crew ruptured a gas main. Santa Monica Blvd. between second and fourth street, was evacuated. News...
US Supreme Court to Overturn Roe vs. Wade Opinion on Abortion, according to Leaked Opinion.
The US Supreme Court is all set to overturn the restraint on Abortion law contained in the 1972 Roe v. Wade decision. This according to Politico.com, who claims to have obtained a leaked draft of the...
Russian Women's Army Uniforms Look Remarkably Like SS Uniforms During World War II
Twitter is abuzz with parade practice photos from Moscow, where the army is practicing for the annual World War II Victory Day parade on May 9th. No one is quite sure how it happened exactly. But...
Nobody Likes Plans to Rebuild Roosevelt Elementary School in Santa Monica
April 27, 2022 - Carey Upton, Chief Operations Officer for the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, held a community meeting yesterday afternoon to solicit input regarding proposed designs to...