VALENCIA — Samohi’s girls’ basketball team finished fifth at the Valencia High Five Classic over the weekend. The 47-43 win over a favored Saugus team gave the Vikings a 3-1 record during the 12-team tournament.
On Fridays I have dinner with my friends Downtown. Usually we’re either at T’s Thai or P.F. Chang’s. Occasionally I can talk them into some place different, but it better be good Italian for that to happen.
DOWNTOWN — With his own architectural design firm and asset management company, Sheldon D. Liber knows what it costs to do business in Santa Monica, and it isn’t cheap.
VALENCIA — Santa Monica High School’s girls’ basketball team won its season opener, 53-42, against Palmdale Knight on Wednesday as part of the Valencia High Five Classic.
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.
LINCOLN — After many hours of testimony and discussion Tuesday, the Board of Education unanimously passed a policy prohibiting PTAs from paying for staff salaries, benefits or training, and instead entrusting that duty to the Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation.
Although the sight of hundreds of balloons being released into the air often creates a poignant moment, this fleeting point in time can often lead to a disastrous result on marine life.
AIRPORT COURTHOUSE — Sentencing has been postponed to Jan. 18 for Paul Edmond Carpenter, who was convicted of first-degree murder for the 1998 shooting death of a German tourist during a botched robbery attempt near a beachfront hotel in Santa Monica.
We have a wealth of great cultural events in Santa Monica, from our free summer concerts on the Santa Monica Pier to free movies at Santa Monica Place, and an endless variety of gallery openings at Bergamot Station and around town.
CITY HALL — Bicyclists broke out in riotous applause Tuesday night when the City Council unanimously approved the Bike Action Plan, a 20-year vision that planners hope will encourage people to get out of cars and onto bikes.
DOWNTOWN — Apparently it doesn’t take Black Friday deals to get Santa Monicans and visitors to open up their wallets. Sales tax receipts from the second quarter of this year — April to June — were up nearly 16 percent from the same period last year, the result of Santa Monica Place reemerging as a s
