MID-CITY — Paula Minardi could hardly believe her eyes. There, on the 1300 block of Santa Monica Boulevard between Stanford and Yale streets, was a coyote.
Q: I saw a person being pulled over by an unmarked vehicle with lights and sirens. The vehicle was the same make and model as a standard police car, but it did not have any police markings on it.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — For this year only, seniors and eighth graders will get the chance to attend graduation and other end-of-the-year events despite violating the district’s controlled substance policy.
ST. MONICA — Few people have the same connection to St. Monica’s Catholic Church as Lydia Saenz. She was baptized there, received her first communion there and went through the rite of confirmation at the campus on the corner of Seventh Street and California Avenue.
BERGAMOT STATION — U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan joined city officials for a tour of Bergamot Station Thursday morning to get a first-hand look at the future home of the Expo Light Rail station and mixed-use housing development.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — After nearly two years of work, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District officials and members of the Special Education District Advisory Committee completed their magnum opus — an analysis of the past decade of income and spending on special education, district wide.
SMO — A decade and $1.5 million in outside attorney fees later, City Hall will not challenge a federal appeals court decision to uphold a Federal Aviation Administration ruling barring City Hall from enforcing a ban passed in 2008 prohibiting class C and D jets from landing at Santa Monica Airport.
LOS ANGELES — A seafood dealer who illegally sold whale meat to Santa Monica sushi restaurant The Hump has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. City News Service says 50-year-old Ginichi Ohira of Gardena entered the plea Tuesday in Los Angeles to a count of knowingly selling a marine mammal produ
In A.R. Gurney’s shaggy dog story, “Sylvia,” Tanna Frederick plays a pampered pooch dressed in tutus and tiaras. You might call her a woof in chic clothing.
LUBBOCK, Texas — Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf was recovering in Santa Monica on Tuesday after doctors removed a benign tumor from his brain stem. The 35-year-old Leaf had been experiencing headaches, dizziness and blurred vision before seeing a doctor May 18, his publicist, Margo Myers, told The
Dear New Shrink, This Memorial Day weekend has been overwhelmingly emotional for me. I cannot stop thinking about my father that I never even met. He left to serve his country when my mother was pregnant with me and he died in duty when I was less than a year old.
CITYWIDE — Six months after the revised ordinance banning the use of leafblowers within city limits went into effect, the Office of Sustainability and the Environment has noted a major decrease in the number of reported violations, staff said.
