SMMUSD HDQTRS — Members of the Board of Education promised substantive changes in curriculum and training as well as a progress report within two months in response to a racial incident that officials acknowledge took place at Santa Monica High School in May.
CITY HALL — A three-vehicle collision cost City Hall $20,000, with more on the horizon as the City Attorney’s Office settled one injury case and approaches settlement on a second.
CIVIC CENTER — Twenty years ago, Santa Monica resident and activist Jerry Rubin advocated to get “Chain Reaction,” a sculpture created by Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad, accepted for the front lawn of the Civic Center.
Assemblywoman Julia Brownley (D-Santa Monica) announced Thursday that she and State Sen. Joe Simitian (D- Palo Alto) reached an agreement on a package of bills with the California Charter Schools Association that will establish uniform standards for public charter schools.
THIRD STREET — The simple Santa Monica apartment where James “Whitey” Bulger hid from the FBI for more than a decade could soon be one of the hotter properties in the city’s rental market.
CITY HALL — Alert: Beginning Friday, if you pay more than $35 for a taxi ride from anywhere in Santa Monica to LAX, you’ve paid too much. The City Council voted Tuesday to drop the rates from locations south and north of Interstate 10 respectively as part of a package of motions revisiting different
As people get ready to celebrate America’s birthday on Monday, the Santa Monica Fire Department is reminding the public that all types of fireworks are illegal in the city by the sea.
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.
CITY HALL — Once again, the dog fight over trees in Santa Monica has flared up, and once again, the focus of disagreement is the Canary Island date palm.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Two people are in custody for allegedly beating a man in an alley, leaving him in critical condition, Santa Monica police said Wednesday.
CITY HALL — Carol Riel and her 6-year-old daughter Griffin lived in a rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica immediately above another unit inhabited by heavy smokers.
BOSTON — Prosecutors and James “Whitey” Bulger’s attorney sparred in court papers Wednesday about whether the government should be allowed to drop one of two pending federal cases against the former mob boss or whether those cases should be consolidated.
