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Yoko Shinmoto, after a brief illness, passed away peacefully at the age of 89 on March 25, 2024. Yoko was born in Japan and immigrated to the United States where she was a long-time resident of Torrance, California. She is the last of the family founders who established Southern California Nursery which was located in Culver City, California. This iconic nursery was where some of her nieces and nephews worked where they learned the value of determination and hard work and it influenced many of their future career choices. Yoko is survived by...
Authorities pieced together a series of tragic events that unfolded early on the morning of March 8, culminating in a homicide, a fatal traffic collision, and the discovery of two young children on the 405 Freeway, according to an LAPD press release. The Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) Topanga Division patrol officers responded to a call for a homicide investigation in the 6200 block of Variel Avenue in Woodland Hills around 7:35 a.m. on April 8, 2024. Operations Valley Bureau (OVB) homic...
The FBI is offering a reward for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person or group responsible for an attack on an electrical substation in Torrance, California, in 2023. On August 20, 2023, an unknown suspect or group attempted to destroy and cause a system failure of a Southern California Edison electrical substation by shooting one of the transformers and turning off various circuit breakers. The Southern California Edison substation is located at 21760 Madrona Avenue in Torrance, California. No one...
Collaboration Between SMC, City of Santa Monica, and Malibu Foundation Showcases Innovative Method of Planting to Restore Nature in Urban Spaces During Earth Week 2024, Santa Monica College (SMC) in collaboration with the City of Santa Monica and the Malibu Foundation will unveil a microforest on its main campus-the first one at a U.S. community college. The event will showcase the joint sustainability efforts of the three agencies. Microforests are densely-planted, multilayered indigenous fores...
Rugby Football Club Los Angeles (RFCLA) has signed a multi-year agreement with Chatime Global, making the Bubble tea company the new Front of Jersey sponsor for the team. Chatime is a global brand with over 1,500 stores in 62 countries on six continents. The company has 13 stores in the US, three of which are in Los Angeles. It plans to expand in the USA with new stores launching in the next 18 months. Chatime currently has stores in many cities that are also home to Major League Rugby teams. “Chatime is delighted to partner with the Rugby F...
Culver City is thrilled to announce its collaboration with Healthcare in Action (HIA), a street-based medical group that provides comprehensive healthcare services for behavioral health and substance use disorders, as well as housing navigation and care management support for individuals experiencing homelessness. Through this partnership, Culver City aims to address the healthcare needs of its unhoused residents by implementing HIA's groundbreaking "street medicine" model. "Our agreement with...
Former UCLA standout guard Jrue Holiday has been named to the 2024 USA Basketball Men's National Team, which will compete at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, set for July 26-Aug. 11. Holiday helped the USA Basketball Men's National Team win the gold medal at the 2020 Olympics, which was played in the summer of 2021 (delayed by one year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic). A former standout at Campbell Hall School (Studio City, Calif.), Holiday averaged 8.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.7 assists...
