A new focus on patrolling Downtown Santa Monica has cut serious crimes by almost half over the past month according to information presented to Council this week.
Chief of Police
Editor’s Note: From Our Archives is a new feature of the Daily Press reprinting stories from the paper’s 20-year history. With the ongoing discussion over solving the
Crime Watch is 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.
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Tourism is slowly returning to pre-pandemic levels at popular tourist destinations such as Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, the Santa Monica Pier, San Diego’s Balboa Park and
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday is set to announce his long-delayed move to forgive up to $10,
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Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday.
Vaccinations for babies, toddlers
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One of the drivers of a Brink’s tractor-trailer was asleep inside the big rig, parked near a remote Southern California rest stop earlier this
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Democratic state lawmakers moved Tuesday to limit the “hyperpartisanship” they said has increasingly corrupted California’s local recall elections, over the objection of Republicans who said
INDSEY BAHR / AP Film Writer
The Film Independent Spirit Awards will now feature gender neutral film and television acting categories and raise its budget cap to $30 million, the organization
Paddle-out: The Los Angeles County Fire Department, together with its Lifeguards Division and other county agencies, family and friends, mourned the death of ocean lifeguard Derek C. Traeger on
About four-and-a-half months after longtime Santa Monica Education Foundation Executive Director Linda Greenberg announced her imminent retirement from the nonprofit, the Ed Foundation recently announced it had
The millions of dollars needed to restore the heavily water damaged John Muir Elementary/SMASH (Santa Monica Alternative School House) campus in Ocean Park are expected to soak up funding
