Santa Monica police officers, fire fighters and kids with the Police Activities League will be at Muscle Beach this afternoon, May 26, to honor former SMPD Officer and Marine Rick Crocker with a CrossFit “hero workout.
SMC — A state bill with roots in Santa Monica would overhaul the way community colleges pay for some classes in an effort to increase course offerings.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Santa Monica police are asking for the public’s help to find a suspect who allegedly assaulted a 46-year-old man outside a Main Street pub, leaving him in critical condition.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — If you plan on hitting up happy hour Friday you better sober up before getting behind the wheel because Santa Monica police officers will be conducting a sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint that night as part of an ongoing campaign to reduce the number of people killed
This year’s installment of the popular Brand X Santa Monica Drive-In will feature free movies every Friday during June. The free series on the Santa Monica Pier parking deck kicks off June 3 with the season four premiere of Animal Planet’s reality series “Whale Wars.
DOWNTOWN L.A. — The 17-year-old Santa Monica resident who allegedly built two bombs in his Mid-City apartment plead not guilty to eight charges in a Los Angeles County juvenile court Monday.
CITY HALL — Around budget time last year, “flat is the new up” became City Manager Rod Gould’s mantra. This year, it’s pretty much the same, but with a few twists.
DOWNTOWN L.A. — A Gardena seafood dealer who sold endangered whale meat to The Hump in Santa Monica and other sushi restaurants has yet to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge as part of a deal with prosecutors.
CITYWIDE — A San Diego-based organization that opposes circumcision for newborns has filed paperwork to place a measure on the 2012 Santa Monica ballot that would make it a misdemeanor to perform the procedure on boys under the age of 18.
DOWNTOWN L.A. — A homeless man pleaded not guilty to charges he set off a homemade bomb near a Santa Monica synagogue. Sixty-year-old Ron Hirsch entered pleas Monday in Los Angeles federal court to four felonies involving use of an explosive and a destructive device.
MID-CITY — Nurses at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center cast votes Monday for a tentative labor agreement with the University of California system that includes an 11 percent pay increase over the next two years.
Dear EarthTalk How are wild dolphins faring on the high seas? Recent reports of dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico may well be due to last year’s BP oil spill, but I imagine there are many threats to dolphins from pollution, human overfishing and other causes.
