The Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (SMRR) leadership was up to its old tricks a week ago on Sunday. The occasion was a meeting where endorsements for a candidate for the 50th Assembly District primary was, or wasn’t, on the agenda.
DOWNTOWN — The man who attempted to rob the Wells Fargo on Fourth Street and Arizona Thursday is connected to a string of other successful bank robberies in the Los Angeles area, officials said.
SACRAMENTO — A disgraced campaign treasurer arrested in September for stealing over $7 million from her clients, including Santa Monica politicians, pleaded guilty Friday to five counts of mail fraud and could spend the next 11 and 14 years in prison.
Q: In last week’s column, Neighborhood Resource Officer Glaser discussed private person’s arrests. What are some of the things you are looking for so I know how to help the police department make this city safe? A: Thank you for your concern.
It started with the water. When the waiter at the Mr. C restaurant in the new, fancy Mr. C hotel in Los Angeles asked me what I would like to drink, I replied “plain water, no ice.
LOS ANGELES — The nation’s two actors unions have merged, nearly a decade after their last attempt, bringing an end to years of conflict that had given Hollywood studios the advantage in labor negotiations.
Having an opportunity to try the Veggie Grill’s new menu items was a real treat. Riding my bike up to their restaurant at The Grove on Fairfax Avenue and Third Street to do so was pretty exciting as well.
OCEAN PARK — For many years, Dennis Woods looked down Longfellow Street, a two-block connector that runs behind rows of homes, and thought, “We deserve better.
DOWNTOWN — Police swept the Downtown area Wednesday afternoon in search of a man who unsuccessfully attempted to rob the Wells Fargo Bank at Fourth Street and Arizona Avenue.
CITY HALL — Approximately four score and seven years ago, Santa Monica city officials made an executive decision to change what was once Eighth Street to Lincoln Boulevard.
CITY HALL – The City Council threw its weight behind a movement to overturn the 2010 Supreme Court decision which allowed unlimited corporate money into public elections.
LOS ANGELES — Larry Stevenson, a skateboard maker who helped take the sport from an early 1960s kid’s gimmick often compared to the hula hoop to a respectable and eventually professional sport on par with surfing, has died.
