11TH STREET — Grace Phillips thinks of herself as the “perfect target” for Santa Monica’s Bicycle Action Plan, a recently approved document that unrolls massive changes over the next 20 years to make novice cyclists feel safe on the city’s roads.
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.
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.
SMMUSD HDQTRS The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is currently accepting applications for students who do not live within the district but wish to attend grades K through 11 in the 2012-13 school year.
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.
After a rain-out the weekend of the L.A. Marathon, the city’s Buy Local Expo will take to the Third Street Promenade Saturday to give the public a look at Santa Monica’s businesses.
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.
Pacific Park, the Santa Monica Pier’s amusement area, will have its world-famous Ferris wheel go dark on Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. in observance of Earth Hour.
FIFTH STREET — Santa Monicans will no longer be able to drop off packages, check their P.O. boxes and buy stamps at the historic Fifth Street post office under a plan by federal officials to save money by consolidating and restructuring the U.
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.
