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Culver City police have arrested a juvenile from Los Angeles who allegedly committed two separate crimes in Fox Hills, authorities announced this week. "It is believed the juvenile is responsible for at least 10 armed robberies throughout the local area," said the Culver City Police Department in a press release. The 17-year-old male was taken into custody on March 5 and his case has been filed with the Inglewood Juvenile Court. Police officials said the juvenile was allegedly involved in an...
The City Council has approved the mid-year budget which includes nearly $4 million in additional revenues and fully funds the rent stabilization program. At its Monday night meeting, the Council also decided to move forward on a linkage fee proposal, which would require new commercial developers to pay toward affordable housing. During the budget hearing, the councilmembers heard from the city’s Chief Financial Officer Onyx Jones who reported that revenues for fiscal year 2020-21 will total $107.4M, representing an increase of $3.93 million f...
Do you or someone you know over the age of 65 still need a vaccine? The Culver City Senior Center will be hosting a one-time only vaccination clinic for those aged 65+ in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Health and Curative. Thursday, March 25, 2021 between 9 AM and 5PM, for anyone who lives or works in L.A. County and is age 65 or older. The vaccination clinic will take place at the Culver City Senior Center located at4095 Overland Avenue in Culver City. This vaccination clinic is appointment Only! To schedule an...
California Governor Gavin Newsom declared special election for the 54th Assembly District of the State of California on July 20 to fill the seat vacated by Sydney Kamlager when she was elected to the State Senate for the 30th district. The primary for the special election will be held on May 18, 2021. July 20, 202. The primary for the special election will be held on May 18. Should no candidate receive over 50 percent of the vote, the top 2 candidates will square off in the July runoff....
There is more for Culver City and Westside residents in the recently-passed $1.9 trillion federal stimulus bill than $1,400 checks. The City of Culver City is slated to receive $7.3 million in federal grants, according to a report from the League of California Cities. Santa Monica will get $29.3 million, Beverly Hills $6.3 million, Malibu $2.2 million, while West Hollywood is expecting $6.8 million. Culver City Mayor Alex Fisch posted on his twitter account: "I'm pretty excited that Joe Biden...
Almost 40 films from over 20 participating countries were presented during the six-day Festival that included 11 Oscar submissions for Best International Feature Film and 12 Golden Globe submissions for Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language. Circus of Life, the Oscar submission from Pakistan, took the Snow Leopard Award for Best Film. Director Sarmad Sultan Khoosat received the award from Jury member Luba Balagova Kandoor. Better Days, the Hong Kong Oscar submission, received the Snow Leopard...
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) will host a live interactive telephone town hall meeting from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, to discuss Metro’s Fareless System Initiative. Metro is currently in the process of looking at how the agency could eliminate fares on Metro operated buses and trains for some riders. The Fareless System Initiative study is exploring a pilot program that would provide free rides for low-income riders starting in January 2022 and for K-12 students beginning in August 202...
Harrison Pettit Kiang, a native of Culver City, California, has been named to Emerson College's Dean's List for the Fall 2020 semester. Pettit Kiang is majoring in Media Arts Production and is a member of the Class of 2022. The requirement to make Emerson's Dean's List is a grade point average of 3.7 or higher....
Tuesday April 6, at 7PM, the Santa Monica Public Library presents UCLA Historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein discussing her 2019 book Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century with writer/arts administrator Stacey Ravel Abarbanel. Family Papers uses the Levy family's remarkable archives to trace their history as they were dispersed from the Ottoman Empire across Europe, Asia, and the Americans, and into modernity. It was named one of the best books of the year by The Economist,...
Despite a season of cancellations due to the pandemic, which led to some very uneven play in the Pac-12 conference this season, the NCAA tournament committee selected five teams from the Pac-12 to play in the 68 team NCAA men's basketball tournament in Indianapolis. UCLA, USC, Colorado, Oregon, and Oregon State are the five teams selected to participate in this year's tournament. Due to the pandemic, all games are being held at sites within the Indianapolis metro area and central Indiana. The...
Culver City's first opponent in their new league will be a familiar one. The Centaurs and the Mira Costa Mustangs have had some classic battles over the years but the one on Friday night figures to ranked at the top of the list. Not only is this the first game in a pandemic season but Mira Costa may have a quarterback that can go toe to toe with Culver City great signal caller, Zevi Eckhaus. Kick off is set for 7 p.m. at Mira Costa. Only family members will be allowed to attend the game. Culver...
At his season ending press conference, General Manager Tom Telesco of the Los Angeles Chargers stated the obvious about the play of the offensive line during the season: "There's a lot of improvement that needs to be made in that area." On the first day of free agency, Telesco made good on that statement by adding two free agent starters to the offensive line. The Chargers added center Corey Linsley, a 2020 first team All-Pro with the Green Bay Packers and added Matt Feiler, the starting left...
by Nick Hamilton Special to the Culver City Observer Lakers forward Jared Dudley spoke with the media on Tuesday before the game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and announced that he would not be seeking surgery for his torn MCL. Dudley hopes he can rehab his right knee in time for the playoffs in case called upon to play minutes. He said he injured his knee setting a screen and Sacramento Kings Cory Joseph bumped his knee. It appeared to be just a bruise at first, however once the MRI was taken during the All-Star break, Dudley was told...
by Nick Hamilton Sports Reporter After the Lakers destroyed the Minnesota Timberwolves 137-123 on Tuesday night, Lebron James recorded his 99th career triple-double as he finished with 25 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists. Before the game the news broke that he and business partner Maverick Carter had become a part of the Fenway Sports Group (FSG), the parent company of the Boston Red Sox. "For me and my partner Maverick (Carter) to be the first two Black men to be a part of that ownership grou...
Sophomore guard Tyger Campbell has been named a first-team NABC All-District selection, as announced by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) on Tuesday morning. Campbell, a 5-foot-11 point guard from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been listed on the NABC’s District 19 first team, along with Oscar da Silva (Stanford), Evan Mobley (USC), Chris Duarte (Oregon) and McKinley Wright IV (Colorado). The first student-athletes honored as second-team selections are Timmy Allen (Utah), Remy Martin (Arizona State), Isaac Bonton (Washington S...
UCLA completed the 2021 softball preseason in prime form as the Bruins swept back-to-back doubleheaders this past weekend, with each game a shutout, and almost as if expected. And the two-year wait is over as the team hosts the Arizona State Sun Devils for their PAC-12 season opener, a four-game series starting this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 19-21 at Easton Stadium on the UCLA campus. Due to COVID protocol measures, PAC-12 Softball was cancelled the week before the season was scheduled...
By Alyssa Erdley March 9, 2021 - The California Department of Corrections, which runs the state's prisons quietly began offering Covid-19 vaccines to the staff and also incarcerated individuals at the state's prisons on December 22, 2020. Vaccinations for frontline workers, the first given in the state, only began shortly before this date. Individuals over 65 years old were not eligible to sign up to get the vaccine until mid-January. As of March 7, there have been 42,397 inmates who have received the vaccine and 25,885 prison staff members....
PeopleConnect, owner of the social networking site Classmates.com, has settled a consumer protection lawsuit alleging the website did not properly inform its users regarding automatic subscription renewals, the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office announced last week. A final court judgment was entered last Monday by a San Diego judge that calls for PeopleConnect Inc, to pay to $550,000 to settle a consumer protection lawsuit filed by the California Automatic Renewal Task Force (CART). The task force consists of the Santa Clara and San Diego D...
by Corva Corvax 3/11: The Los Angeles County Health Department announced the high likelihood the county may move from the most restrictive purple tier of Covid-19 restrictions to the less restrictive red tier by March 17, nearly an exact year since lockdowns were first imposed. It will be the first time Los Angeles will move down from the most restrictive purple tier. The move is dependent, however, on how many Covid-19 vaccines are given, statewide, to neighborhoods with the lowest scores in the "Healthy Places Index." The Healthy Places...
Indoor Dining At Restaurants Might Open in LA Next Week; County Expected to Enter Red Tier Colleges and high schools can also reopen; private gatherings of 3 households, and indoor sections of museums The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health anticipates qualifying for the State's Blueprint for a Safer Economy less restrictive red tier that allows for additional re-openings between Monday, March 15 at 12:01am and Wednesday, March 17. The exact date depends on when 2 million doses have been administered to people in the most...
A male escort who has clients across the United States was sentenced to 21 months in prison yesterday by a federal judge in Florida. His crime was not prostitution related. It was for filing a false corporate tax return in 2018, said officials from the Justice Department’s Tax Division. Jami Kopacz, of Fort Lauderdale, was also ordered by District Court Judge Roy K. Altman to pay $278,325 in back taxes to the IRS on the unreported income from his escort business over four years. According to court documents and statements, Kopacz worked as a ...
3/11: Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. is recovering following a "cardiac event" Monday that required emergency surgery and days of hospitalization, according to city officials. City Manager Artie Fields confirmed the medical emergency Thursday after it was first reported by the blog 2UrbanGirls. "On March 8, Monday evening at approximately 5:30 p.m., Mayor James T. Butts Jr. experienced a cardiac event while in his office at city hall," Fields said in a statement. "He was transported to UCLA...
By Jack Simon Santa Monica grocery and drug store workers will receive a temporary $5 hourly pay increase for 120 days as the City Council approved on Tuesday night a “hero pay” ordinance for essential workers in the city. The ordinance, modeled after the recently-passed Los Angeles County measure, mandates the pay raise for publicly-traded grocery store or retail drug companies and retail companies that have at least 300 employees nationwide and more than 10 employees per store site. The ‘hero pay” mandate will go into effect immediately but b...
Some people pronounce the discount retailer as Tar-jay, as if it were French. But it any case, it's coming. A new Target store has opened in place of the Fred Segal store on 5th Street and Broadway, in Downtown Santa Monica. The Target City store will offer an abbreviated version of the chains retail offerings, such as pharmaceuticals and clothing. It will join a newly opened Target at 16thStreet and Wilshire Blvd. Another Target on the Westside is on Santa Monica Blvd, in West Los Angeles....
The U.S. and California economies will experience near-record growth this year thanks to widespread vaccinations for COVID-19 and massive federal relief for struggling workers and businesses, UCLA forecasters at the Anderson School of Business predict. "A waning pandemic combined with fiscal relief means a strong year of growth in 2021 - one of the strongest years of growth in the last 60 years - followed by sustained higher growth rates in 2022 and 2023," according to the quarterly economic...
