SM BEACH — Aiming to encourage more people to dispose of their trash properly while visiting Santa Monica State Beach, City Hall and environmental watchdog Heal the Bay have teamed up to create 500 new trash cans that combine traditional marketing techniques and the latest smartphone technology.
SM PIER — Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier donated a piece of its original, world-famous Ferris wheel — one of the two center hub signs — to the Santa Monica History Museum, officials with the amusement park announced Thursday.
MID-CITY — After years of fighting with management for the right to unionize, nurses at Saint John’s Health Center on Thursday voted in favor of joining the California Nurses Association, a move they hope will lead to better pay, benefits and improvements in patient care.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Santa Monica police officers, with the help of the Los Angeles Police Department, apprehended three men believed responsible for a string of street robberies that occurred in Santa Monica, West Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, authorities said Thursday.
Crime Watch is a weekly series culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
DOWNTOWN L.A. — Family members of Michael and Anthony Juarez, brothers who were brutally shot and killed more than a decade ago while visiting a cousin’s clothing store in Santa Monica, will have a chance next month to confront one of two gang members found guilty of the murders.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Santa Monica police are asking for the public’s help to find a suspect who allegedly assaulted a 46-year-old man outside a Main Street pub, leaving him in critical condition.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — If you plan on hitting up happy hour Friday you better sober up before getting behind the wheel because Santa Monica police officers will be conducting a sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint that night as part of an ongoing campaign to reduce the number of people killed
DOWNTOWN L.A. — A Gardena seafood dealer who sold endangered whale meat to The Hump in Santa Monica and other sushi restaurants has yet to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge as part of a deal with prosecutors.
MID-CITY — Nurses at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center cast votes Monday for a tentative labor agreement with the University of California system that includes an 11 percent pay increase over the next two years.
DOWNTOWN Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom will have some pretty stiff competition for the 41st District Assembly seat. Social activist Torie Osborn officially announced her bid to succeed Assemblywoman Julie Brownley Thursday, touting high-profile endorsements from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villarai
DOWNTOWN L.A. — A Gardena seafood dealer who imported endangered whale meat from Tokyo and sold it to Santa Monica eatery The Hump and other sushi restaurants in the Southland will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge, according to reports.
