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TMZ has reported that Alex Trebek -- the revered and beloved "Jeopardy!" host since 1984, whose calm but witty presence was must-see television for millions of Americans -- has died ... A "Jeopardy!" spokesperson tells TMZ, "Jeopardy is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends." The TV icon had been battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer since announcing the news back in March 2019. He immediately started chemo after the diagnosis, but made no plans to retire and...
Two political newcomers and a former city commissioner are on the verge of winning the 3 seats on the Culver City Council while the controversial Measure B is headed for defeat. With mail-in ballots still being counted countywide, Yasmine McMorrin leads the Council race with 8,971 votes, followed by former Civil Service Commissioner Albert Vera with 8,889 votes and Freddy Puza with 7432 votes, according to preliminary results released yesterday. Mayor Goran Eriksson currently sits in fourth...
With Holly Mitchell winning a seat on the powerful the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the race for her current post in the State Senate has begun. Mitchell, who handily defeated former LA City Council President Herb Wesson on Tuesday, will assume her new post on November 30. She will succeed Mark Ridley-Thomas who won a seat on Los Angeles City Council, vacated by Wesson due to term limits. According to state laws, Governor Gavin Newson has until December 14 to call for a special...
Culver City is finally going to see some measurable rainfall this weekend, the National Weather Service predicts. Dramatically cooler temperatures are expected overnight into the weekend, as rain is expected through Sunday. See those high, thin clouds this morning? Those cirrus formations lead in the tropical storm Odayls from far away, the NWS reports. Thursday's warm, summer-like weather will give way to lower temperatures, some as great as 20 degrees cooler in spots. Windy weather is also...
November 3, 2020 This morning nearly 4,100 firefighters continue to battle 22 wildfires in California. Yesterday, firefighters responded to 23 new wildfires and quickly contained them. As favorable weather continues, firefighters are strongly working to increase containment lines. Continued quiet, dry, and mild conditions continue through much of the week. Locally elevated fire weather conditions continue across the southern California mountains through midweek, where local wind gusts to 30 mph...
The Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program offers grants to non-profit performing arts organizations in Los Angeles County for music, dance and theatre. Under the purview of the City Council and the Cultural Affairs Commission, the Performing Arts Grant Program is designed to support arts organizations and to bring distinguished cultural programming to Culver City. The amount of grant funding available is dependent upon the total deposits made into the City's Cultural Trust Fund each fiscal year. Additionally, the Performing Arts Grant...
Where's the consistency and dynamic offense that Sean McVay brought to the Los Angeles in his first two years as head coach? That's what Rams fans are asking two seasons later. After a very dispiriting performance in their 28-17 loss to the Miami Dolphins, the Rams fortunately have a Bye Week and two weeks to get their offense and special teams acts together. Feasting on an early weak schedule, the 5-3 Rams now face an uphill battle in the second half of the season that features five games...
1.Pittsburgh Steelers (7-0): The Steelers are undefeated and with the next three games against the Cowboys, Bengals, and Jaguars, it is likely that they will be undefeated for their Thanksgiving Day game at home against the Ravens. Next: -13.5 at Dallas Cowboys – Sun, Nov. 8 – O/U 42 (ATS: 6-1 – O/U: 4-2-1) 2. Kansas City Chiefs (7-1): The Chiefs were 19.5-point favorites against the Jets and easily covered that betting line in their 35-9 rout. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes had his usual terri...
It is better late than never. UCLA and USC football teams will take the field for the first time this season, three months behind schedule because of the coronavirus. A lot of the other major football conferences started playing a few months ago but the Pac-12 will kick off their season Saturday. USC will play a rare west coast 9 a.m. game against Arizona State and UCLA will travel to Colorado to take on the Buffalos at 4 p.m. Both teams have a lot of question marks, but both teams have...
The California Interscholastic Federation (C.I.F.) is proceeding with its proposed July schedule and fall sports teams will resume respective practice schedules in early December. Winter and spring sports begin their respective seasons once fall sports conclude in late March and early April. Boys' and girls' cross country, football, boys' and girls' volleyball and boys' and girls' water polo are training now, will begin official practices in December and will start competing in January....
The Denver Broncos were at home and were being absolutely dominated by the Los Angeles Chargers. The Chargers had a 24-3 lead in the middle of the 3rd quarter. The Broncos had a total of 55 yards of offense for the game. The Chargers had more touchdowns (3) than the Broncos had first downs (2). The fans were booing the home team and things looked hopeless for the Broncos. What happened after that point in the game only seems to happen consistently to the Chargers. The Broncos scored touchdowns...
We are proud to introduce Bruin Gameday Live, a brand-new comprehensive and immersive virtual gameday experience that will bring fans into the Rose Bowl for the 2020 UCLA Football season. While we're disappointed that you, our loyal Bruin fans, will not be able to join us in-person this season, we are excited to announce our plans to bring UCLA Football gameday to you! Bruin Gameday Live will serve as a complementary experience to the TV and Radio broadcasts during each UCLA Football home game...
Let the players in your organization show off their skills by hosting a FREE MLB Pitch Hit & Run competition. Hosting this easy, one-day event will provide the kids in your community the opportunity to advance through three levels of competition including Team Championships and the Finals during 2021 MLB All-Star Week!...
Los Angeles Dodger outfielder Mookie Betts has been named 2020 National League Gold Glove Award winner for right field, winning his first Rawlings Gold Glove in the National League and his fifth straight Rawlings Gold Glove (2016 - '20). Betts, 28, makes it two consecutive seasons that a Dodger right fielder has won the award, joining teammate Cody Bellinger who captured the prize last season. The Nashville native is the ninth Dodger outfielder to receive the honor, joining Bellinger (2019),...
• Prop 14: Funding medical research that uses stem cells PASSED • Prop 15: Raising taxes on commercial properties worth more than $3 million FAILED • Prop 16: Bringing back affirmative action in public hiring, contracts and college admissions FAILED • Prop 17: Restoring the voting rights of people on parole PASSED • Prop 18: Letting some 17-year-olds vote in primary and special elections FAILED • Prop 19: Letting senior homeowners pay low property taxes if they move while raising taxes for p...
A proposition that would keep alive California's first-of-its-kind stem cell research program with a $5.5 billion infusion of borrowed money had a narrow lead. With about 11.3 million votes counted, approval for Proposition 14 was ahead 51.1% to 48.9% Wednesday morn. If the proposition passes it would approve a bond sale that would bail out the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, which was created by a similar $3 billion bond measure in 2014 but is now nearly broke. Millions more votes remained to be counted. With dozens of...
In one of two measures involving voting rights, voters decisively passed a ballot measure restoring the right to vote for felons on parole. Proposition 17 will change the state Constitution to allow an estimated 50,000 felons to vote, with 59% over voters approving the measure. Another voting rights measure, Proposition 18, which would allow 17-year-olds to vote in primaries if they turn 18 before the general election, was rejected by 55 percent of voters....
Proposition 19, which would expand one property tax break for seniors but rein in another for transfers of real estate between parents and children, appeared headed to passage, according to unofficial election results. The vote, with all precincts reporting at least partial results, was 51.5% to 48.5% as of Wednesday evening. Bay Area counties gave the ballot measure its strongest support, with yes votes ranging from roughly 56% to 60%. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimated that the net effect of Prop. 19 would be to raise property tax r...
California voters defeated Proposition 20, endorsing recent efforts to ease mass incarceration by reducing penalties and allowing for earlier releases. Voters rejecting pleas from proponents of Proposition 20 to address what they called the “unintended consequences” of two previously approved ballot measures. One lowered penalties for drug and property crimes in 2014, while the second two years later allowed the earlier parole of most felons. Voters by a 62.3% to 37.7% margin rejected Proposition 20, which would have barred criminals con...
California rejected Proposition 21 which would have permitted stricter rent control laws. Proposition 21 was opposed by 59.8% of the voters, according to the state’s unofficial election tally Wednesday morning. “Yet again, California voters clearly understood the negative impacts Prop. 21 would have had on the availability of affordable housing in our state by clearly rejecting this radical ballot measure,” Tom Bannon, chief executive of the California Apartment Assn., said in a statement. “It is now time to move from ballot-box battles...
Rideshare/gig economy apps such as Uber, Lyft and Doordash may continue to pay their employees as independent contractors, as California voters approved Proposition 22. The measure reversed legislation passed in Sacramento, that mandated gig economy workers be paid as employees. This would mean deductions for workers compensation, and for other taxes. Uber and other ride share companies spent over $200,000,000 on passing the measure, a record for any ballot initiative in any US...
Dear Santa Monica Observer, There was an annoying helicopter hovering low above my SM residence for about an hour today. I assumed it was LAPD so checked SMPD twitter to see if there was any police activity. I was surprised to see no activity, however there was a tweet from SMPD announcing a new SMPD helicopter patrol to provide "situational awareness." Another tweet complaining about the noise gave the helicopter's call sign as N6605. I've supplied a link that gives N6605's flight path over SM as well as its flight log. It has apparently been...
by Stan Greene According to the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters, George Gascon has been elected Los Angeles County District Attorney. Gascon won 54% of the Los Angeles County vote, about 1.5 million in raw votes. Incumbent District Attorney Jackie Lacey has just 46%. The carpetbagger from San Francisco favors no prosecution of homeless people for any crime, no drug prosecution, no minor crime enforcement, and an emphasis on social justice over, well, justice. Jackie Lacey was elected in 2...
Photos and Story by Mary Leipziger Woodlawn Cemetery is owned and operated by the City of Santa Monica. Anyone who drives by the neighborhood of 14th and Pico can see that it's a cemetery. There is a long list of celebrities who's eternal resting place is there. Among the forgotten people famous in their day who are buried there, are "Our Gang" acting twins, Winston and Weston Doty. Tragically, they died in a flood, at only 19 years of age. They were college students at USC when they died in a...
By Corva Corvax Santa Monica is to hold three virtual community workshops to "engage" the public in discussing how to shoehorn in the 8,874 additional housing units assigned to them by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). The city received its allocation of the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) from the quasi-governmental SCAG last fall. That number originated with the state's Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), who delivered to SCAG an estimate of the housing needs of the state between 2021 and 2...
