SAMOHI — Santa Monica High School girls basketball routed Anaheim High School, 65-25, in a CIF-SS Division I-A first round playoff game Thursday at Samohi.
• St. Monica High School’s boys basketball defeated Milken Community 51-46 in a Division V-AA first round playoff game on Wednesday evening. The Mariners will advance to play Notre Dame in a second round matchup at St.
AIRPORT COURTHOUSE — A former fugitive who was captured in Jamaica last week in connection with the shooting death of a German tourist in Santa Monica pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted robbery charges on Wednesday.
• St. Monica, the no. 9 seed in the Division V-AA girls basketball playoffs, will play host Ontario Christian at 7:30 p.m. The Mariners finished the season as the third place team in the Camino Real League.
General Motors and Chrysler must today turn-in their homework, uh, their “viability plans,” to Congress. Watch tonight’s TV news to see how they were scored.
CITY HALL — The second time’s a charm for the no-smoking campaign. Less than four months after the City Council criticized a set of proposed marketing ideas around the new anti-smoking regulations as uninspiring, a revised version that aims to be more engaging received the thumbs up from officials t
CITY HALL — With just two weeks before the latest smoking ban is set to go into effect, city officials have launched a Web site aimed at educating residents about the new law.
CITY HALL — The field of candidates vying for an open seat on the City Council could be packed with the ghosts of elections past. While the City Clerk’s Office has not received any applications to date from residents interested in serving late Councilmember Herb Katz’ term through 2010, a number of
CITY HALL — The federal government on Friday settled a lawsuit in which City Hall and environmental watchdog groups accused two U.S. agencies of financing energy projects overseas without considering impacts on global warming.
Last week our City Council announced it was taking applications to fill a vacant seat. This, just as former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was removed from office by the Illinois State Senate by a vote of 59-0.
CITYWIDE — Looking to be more reliable during rush hour traffic and cut costs because of the budget fiasco in Sacramento, public transportation officials are adjusting their bus schedules, with changes to go into effect Feb.
SM AIRPORT — The head of a popular aviation Web site was one of two victims who perished in a fatal plane crash here on Wednesday night, according to friends and colleagues.
