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After an extensive dragnet of the city involving five police agencies the Culver City Police Department took the final two suspects into custody at their homes in Los Angeles. The saga began last Thursday, January 21 at 9:05 am when the longtime bank security guard Ricky James noticed the suspect enter One West Bank located at 10784 Jefferson Boulevard in the Raintree Shopping Center. James noticed the suspicious nature of the suspects and he confronted them. One suspect pulled a gun and fired...
As you may know, there was an attempted bank robbery last week at the One West Bank Branch on Jefferson Boulevard. Two suspects were apprehended, and it is believed that two suspects are at-large. CCPD immediately contacted us and placed El Rincon Elementary School on a modified lock down. As a precaution, El Marino Language School was also placed on a modified lock down. El Marino was removed from lockdown prior to dismissal. El Rincon received an all clear after most students had been...
Scott Wyant is hosting a fundraising event at the Culver Hotel (9400 Culver Boulevard, Culver City) on Sunday, January 31 from 5:30 pm to 7:30. The event will have some unique features including gameshow style squares where contestants will be able to win prizes including a lasagna dinner for eight people made by Scott and his wife Leslie. Other prizes include a signed serigraph by Academy Award winner Sir Anthony Hopkins; fly-fishing lessons; classical guitar lessons and a growing list of myste...
The Culver City Democratic Club has scheduled a City Council Candidates meeting that will take place on Wednesday, February 10 in the Rotunda Room in the Veterans Memorial Building. The meeting is open and everyone is invited to attend. Vet's is located at 4117 Overland Avenue in Culver City. The program will start at 7 pm and refreshments will be served....
Culver City Council Candidate Marcus G. Tiggs is holding a campaign fundraising event Wednesday, February 3 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 at the landmark Backstage Bar & Grill, 10400 Culver Blvd. Complimentary drinks and appetizers will be served. Tickets are $25 each and can be reserved by emailing info@elecTiggs.com or visiting www.electiggs.com to purchase tickets in advance. All are invited and encouraged to stop by with an appetite and meet the candidate. Tiggs is a retired army Lt. Colonel and...
USC’s Clay Helton, who successfully made the rare transition from interim coach to head coach after taking over mid-season after Steve Sarkisian was fired, has been selected the 2015 Coach of the Year by the Los Angeles Sports Council. Helton will be honored at the 11th Annual LA Sports Awards, which will be held on Thursday, February 25 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. Helton succeeded in keeping the Trojans together during a challenging set of off-field circumstances. Under his leadership, the Trojans won four straight conference games and d...
Sports Reporter There are several ways to look at the UCLA men's basketball season. If you look at the Pac-12 standings the Bruins are listed as the 10th place team in the league but if you look at the records of the teams they are actually tied for third. That's how competitive the Pac-12 is this season. UCLA is has an overall record of 12-8 and is 3-4 in the Pac-12. If they expect to keep up with the top teams in the league they must beat Washington and Washington State this weekend on their h...
The USC men’s basketball team is tied for second place with six other Pac-12 teams and they are hoping that a sweep of the Washington schools this weekend will put them back in first place. USC played Washington State on Thursday and will battle Washington Saturday at noon in the Galen Center on the USC campus. The Trojans are 15-5 overall and 4-3 in the Pac-12. Other teams that are 4-3 in the Pac-12 are Arizona, California, Colorado, Stanford and Utah and UCLA and Oregon State are 3-4. Right now there are 10 teams in the league with an o...
It has been reported that Clippers forward Blake Griffin suffered a broken hand from punching a member of the team's training staff in a restaurant in Toronto on the team's current trip. The following is a joint statement from Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and President of Basketball Operations and Head Coach Doc Rivers: L.A. Clippers forward Blake Griffin suffered a spiral fracture of the fourth metacarpal in his right hand throwing a punch on Jan. 23 in Toronto. This conduct has no place in...
USC’s Clay Helton, who successfully made the rare transition from interim coach to head coach after taking over mid-season after Steve Sarkisian was fired, has been selected the 2015 Coach of the Year by the Los Angeles Sports Council. Helton will be honored at the 11th Annual LA Sports Awards, which will be held on Thursday, February 25 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. Helton succeeded in keeping the Trojans together during a challenging set of off-field circumstances. Under his leadership, the Trojans won four straight conference games and d...
FOX Sports West and the Angels have unveiled their 2016 Spring Training television schedule, announcing a slate of 27 Cactus League games to be aired from Arizona plus four additional exhibition games from Southern California. Terry Smith will again partner with analyst Jose Mota to call the action for all Spring Training games airing from Arizona on FOX Sports West and Prime Ticket. Immediately following game coverage, “Angels Live” will offer a post-game recap. Alex Curry, Patrick O’Neal, and Jeanne Zelasko will rotate at the host position an...
Donald Trump says he will make America great again. In this year's State of the Union address, President Obama said the U.S. is great. Which is it? Do you think the U.S. is past its sell-by date? 41% of Americans think the American Dream is out of most people's reach, while 38% think it's still possible, and 21% aren't sure, according to a 2013 YouGov poll. It's alive and kicking, if you ask me. Lest you think I'm too much of a cheerleader, I see the problems. Still - ask yourself: Where would...
he Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters (LALCV) – which has supported pro-environment local candidates throughout Los Angeles County for more than three decades – announces its endorsement of Councilmember Meghan Sahli-Wells for re-election to the Culver City Council in the upcoming April 12 election. "Councilmember Meghan Sahli-Wells has been a strong environmental advocate and a thoughtful and effective leader for Culver City," said LALCV President Tom Eisenhauer. "On the City Cou...
The F.B.I. is hot on the trail of the person or persons with the St. Louis Cardinals’ baseball front office that, during the 2014 spring training camp held in Jupiter, Florida, broke into the Houston Astros’ computer. Despite efforts by the bad guys to mask their location, the feds were able to trace at least one of the breaches directly back to the computer used. At least four members of the St. Louis Cardinals’ baseball operations staff have hired criminal defense lawyers, per The Fresn...
The Culver City Garden Club will host Guerilla Gardener Natalie "Sunshine" Flores at its February 2 meeting. "Sunshine" will give a demonstration of creating "seed bombs", an efficient means of distributing seeds. The meeting is at 7pm in the Garden Room of the Culver City Veterans Building, 4117 Overland Ave. It's free to all and there's free parking around the building. There will be refreshments and a plant "Show, Tell & Ask" table. For more information call (310) 203-1482....
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Music Director Jeffrey Kahane served as musical “tour guide” and conductor for LACO’s annual “Discover” program, which this season featured a special one-night-only exploration of Bach’s incomparable Cantata BWV 140 “Sleepers Awake” on Saturday at the historic Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, the “Carnegie Hall of the West.” Bach composed this cantata in Leipzig for the 27th Sunday after Trinity and first performed it on November 25, 1731. It was composed to com...
The Culver City Chamber of Commerce will be holding an open Meet the Candidate Forum on Tuesday, February 2 at 8 am at the Courtyard by Marriott, 6333 Bristol Parkway, Culver City. The meeting is open to the public. April 12 is election day. Three members of the City Council are up for election. Two of the seats are open due to Mayor O'Leary and Vice Mayor Weissman being term limited out and Councilmember Sahli-Wells is seeking a second term on the city council. This election has seven...
Here are some highlights from the City Council meeting of January 25, 2016. At this meeting, the City Council: • Presented a Certificate of Recognition to Family Self Sufficiency Program Graduate Yolanda Gomez. • Adopted a resolution approving (1) the acceptance of certain real property (3846 Cardiff Avenue; Assessor's Parcel Nos. 4206-028-900 and 4206-028-901) from the Successor Agency to the Culver City Redevelopment Agency to the City of Culver City for use to fulfill contractual enf...
Kourtney Wright of Culver City has earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Wright was among approximately 2,400 undergraduate students who received degrees during Georgia Tech's 250th commencement exercises on December 11-12 at the McCamish Pavilion. One of the nation's leading research universities, the Georgia Institute of Technology is in the business of creating the next--the next idea, the next technology, and the next legion of...
Tito's Tacos recently hosted a group of over 30 middle and upper school Culinary Arts Students who are developing the hands-on skills to become gainfully employed in the ever-changing restaurant industry and to personally manage their own lucrative food service businesses. The Culinary Arts Students are enrolled in the much acclaimed two year ProStart curriculum at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies under the guidance of their distinguished instructor Andi Phillips, which is sponsored...
I am writing in response to the City Engineer's proposed removal of two (among several) Culver City pedestrian crosswalks to be voted on by the City Council this Monday Jan 24 at 7pm all as more fully detailed in the attached flyer. I am a resident and owner of a condo at Tara Hill, the 430 unit condominium complex located at Indian Wood Road, just a few hundred yards away from two of the referenced crosswalks. I am also a founding member of the Tara Hill Going Green Group, a community group...
For at least 15 years I tried to ignore rumors about the National Football League coming back to Los Angeles. We’re busy here at the Observer Newspapers. We don’t have time or newspaper space for rumors. With Culver City High sports coverage, the NBA, the Dodgers, UCLA and USC and a little hockey we’re not inclined to spread gossip about something that may or may not happen. But last week something did happen. The Rams have left St. Louis. They’ll play the next two seasons in the Coliseum and th...
