PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Santa Monica Police Chief Tim Jackman in a memo to the mayor and City Council accepted “full responsibility” for the flawed investigation of school board member Oscar de la Torre, and said oversight of his officers has increased.
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.
PIER 59 — Santa Monica residents flocked to Pier 59 Studios Wednesday night to get in their two cents on how to support, enliven and preserve the arts venue in the face of a racing engine of change — the Exposition Light Rail line.
CITY HALL — Nothing occurs in a vacuum, particularly development in a dense city like Santa Monica. Perhaps never has that been more true than with three projects, located on Colorado Avenue a quarter-mile from the proposed Bergamot Transit Village, that are all at various stages in the planning pip
14TH STREET — For one shining day in January 2010, gourmet food trucks filled a normally vacant lot on 14th Street at Santa Monica Boulevard. Hundreds of hungry patrons arrived to enjoy their edible wares, and owner Steve Taub planned to make the court a regular, if not daily, fixture on the propert
DOWNTOWN — If you are looking for a local hotel this weekend to escape “Carmageddon,” you may be out of luck. Santa Monica’s hotels are all nearly booked solid for July 16-17 when the Interstate 405 closure is expected to create major traffic delays on the Westside and the San Fernando Valley.
BOSTON — James “Whitey” Bulger’s longtime girlfriend is a subservient, “simple woman” whose only offense is a “crime of passion” she committed when she fell in love with the former Boston crime boss, her attorney said Wednesday as he asked a federal judge to release her on bail.
MAIN STREET — When students enter comedian Brad Garrett’s “Sitcom Intensive” class, the first question they ask shouldn’t be about attracting an agent or manager.
SACRAMENTO — A bill to reform K-12 school financing, championed by Assemblywoman Julia Brownley (D-Santa Monica), has stalled in its progress through the state Senate after winning near-unanimous support in the Assembly.
CITY HALL — The City Council Tuesday approved a measure that would allow the city of Bayou La Batre, Ala. to keep two loaned fire engines, culminating an arrangement made when the town was rebuilding after the ravages of Hurricane Katrina.
CIVIC CENTER — The “Three Amigos” are saddling up and going for a ride. In the coming weeks, the trio of massive ficus trees will be pruned and temporarily relocated along with nearly 50 other trees so that crews can move 55,000 cubic yards of soil from the old RAND Corp.
OCEAN PARK — Thirty-one weeks out of the year, Melissa Tarsky welcomes total strangers into her home. Well, her spare guest house, and they pay for the privilege.
