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The City Council this week took one final step toward adopting a new comprehensive rent control ordinance in Culver City. At a marathon meeting Monday night, Councilmembers voted 4-1 to introduce two rent control and tenant protections ordinances. The dissenting vote was cast by Mayor Goran Eriksson. With the Council's action, Culver City reportedly becomes the last city in the greater LA area to offer tenants protections beyond the minimum measures mandated by the state. The Council is expected...
Sizzler, the restaurant chain founded in Culver City in 1958, has declared bankruptcy, filing for Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California on Monday. The company, which currently operates 107 locations, said that the filing is “a direct result of the financial impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the casual dining sector.” In a statement, Sizzler said its goal is to keep restaurants open throughout the bankruptcy process, which will involve renegotiating leases for 14 company-owned locations. The com...
On Tuesday September 22, at Midnight, Culver City Police Officers responded to a residential burglary in progress in the 4100 block of Lafayette Place. Officers arrived in less than one minute of receiving the call. Upon arrival, they learned, the resident pursued the suspect on foot and detained him in the area of Lafayette Place and Lucerne Avenue. Officers responded and took the suspect into custody without incident. The investigation revealed, the suspect entered the residence through the kitchen window when he was confronted by the...
On Monday September 21, 2 at 1:15 AM, Culver City Police Officers were in the area of Culver City Park, located at 9910 Jefferson Blvd. The officers heard a succession of gunshots in the immediate area. A containment was established and after an extensive search, no suspects or victims were located. Evidence of a shooting, including 7 spent 9mm shell casings and six live 9mm rounds of ammunition were recovered near the baseball field located on the third level of the park. After checking with local hospitals, no victim(s) were located. Anyone...
Like clockwork, the Los Angeles Rams are off to another quick start to the NFL season head coach Sean McVay. After a well-earned 37-19 road win over the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 2, the team has a chance to improve to 3-0 for the third consecutive season as they travel to face the undefeated Buffalo Bills this Sunday. Under McVay, the Rams have an 18-7 lifetime record away from home during the regular season. Sometimes when you fly in late on Friday nights, you feel like you're just waiting...
The choice of the starting quarterback for the first game of the 2020 NFL season was an easy one for Los Angeles Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there were no traditional offseason workout programs, no mini-camps and there were no preseason games. The Chargers chose veteran Tyrod Taylor to start in the first game over rookie Justin Herbert, since Herbert had zero NFL game experience. That all changed on Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs, in the second...
Some people say defense wins championships but if you don't score points a good defense can be wasted. Two games into the 2020 season and the Chargers and Rams have the right combination to have winning seasons. Their defenses are led by powerful defensive lines, active linebackers and opportunistic defensive backs. The Rams are also led by a young fifth year quarterback in Jared Goff and Chargers rookie quarterback Justin Herbert made an impressive debut against the defending Super Bowl...
QUESTION: What do you get when you combine a determined Girl Scout with a seasoned and scam-savvy acting group, each aiming to keep seniors from becoming victims? ANSWER: A generationally synergistic solution using social media to shed light on a prevalent problem. Meet Geneva Eisel, a candidate for the Girl Scouts Gold Award which, per the organization's website, is earned by "the dreamers and the doers who take 'make the world a better place' to the next level." She is an impressive young...
September 24, 2020 Please note this mornings update has been revised to reflect updated information for the Top 20 fact sheets located at the bottom of this document. Crews continue to battle 26 major wildfires in California. With over 18,200 firefighters on the front lines, crews continue to gain ground on these fires. Yesterday, firefighters responded to 23 new initial attack wildfires across the State, all of which were quickly contained. Since the beginning of the year, there have been well...
For More Information or to Register to Vote, Visit lavote.net To commemorate National Voter Registration Day, SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park, Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams today announced that a Vote Center location will be established on the grounds of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA. The announcement was made jointly with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk and the California Secretary of State's office. SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park's Vote Center will be located adjacent to the stadium and open for a five-day...
By Stan Greene 9/24: The Bobcat Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains has burned over 113,000 acres, an area the size of Denver, Colorado. This fire is the source of most of the smoke over the Westside this week. The fire is one of the largest fires ever in Los Angeles County. However firefighters did make progress. They achieved 38% containment of it by sunrise Wednesday, more than Tuesdays percentage. Authorities continued to investigate how the fire may have started, apparently power lines are...
By Sarah Storkin Video shows the CEO of a Santa Monica environmental consulting firm striking his dog in a luxury condominium building. "Jeffrey Previte, 46, was caught on security camera thrashing his four-month-old dog Beachy and grabbing the animal by the throat at his apartment in the Seychelle Condominiums building in Santa Monica," reported the Daily Mail. In the video taken on August 22, the off-duty CEO can be seen yanking the dog off the floor by the scruff of its neck and violently...
Sur La Table will close several Los Angeles locations, including stores in Santa Monica, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles and El Segundo as the company shutters more than half of its stores across the U.S. this month. The chain is one of many retail companies closing stores in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The company announced in July that it was restructuring and filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing the pandemic for closing 56 retail locations. Separately, Viva Vegan Restaurant...
The McClure Tunnel was closed Sunday night following a crash involving five vehicles on the 10 Freeway in Santa Monica, the California Highway Patrol said. The crash happened in the McLure Tunnel about 7:05 p.m., closing all westbound freeway lanes. It's unknown if anyone was injured. After 7 p.m. a black four-door vehicle was stalled in the lanes, just near the Lincoln Boulevard offramp. Lanes were reopened by 9 p.m....
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Los Angeles area 11:37 pm PST Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake was centered less than two miles west-southwest of South El Monte and occurred at 11:38 p.m. Several aftershocks occurred across the Los Angeles Basin shortly afterward. The epicenter of the earthquake was almost the same location as the M5.9 Whittier Narrows earthquake in 1987, according to seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones. There have been reports that the quake was felt in La Habra, Long Beach, Oxnard, Ontario, Pasadena, near...
By Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude George Gascon, a Havana-born former police officer, resigned his position as San Francisco District Attorney in October, at the same time announcing his intention to run for the same office in Los Angeles County. It is unclear what Gascon thinks he has to offer Los Angeles after he made such an infamous mess of San Francisco. Does he want to bring soaring property crime and out-of-control behavior by the drug-addicted homeless to Los Angeles County, too? Oh, wait a minute. He already did. Gascon is co-author...
By David Ganezer The Santa Monica Transparency Project has written an open letter accusing SM City Council member Gleam Davis of a conflict of interest regarding the proposed expansion of the Miramar Hotel, a project which has been in the works for about a decade. "Ms. Davis' husband John Prindle is a highly paid, long-term senior executive at Dell Technolo-gies. See Ms. Davis' Schedule C, Form 700 filings from at least 2013. Indeed, he is Global Ac-counts Manager," says the letter. Michael Dell, the largest shareholder in Dell Inc., also has a...
1. Kansas City Chiefs (2-0): The Chiefs needed some incredible kicking from Harrison Butker to pull out a win over the Chargers in overtime. Butker nailed two 58-yard field goal attempts, including the game winner in overtime. Butker also hit a 30-yard kick in in the final seconds of regulation to send the game to overtime. Not surprisingly, Butker was named the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week.Next: +3.5 at Baltimore Ravens - Mon, Sep. 28 – O/U 53.5 2. Seattle Seahawks (2-0): Quarterback R...
