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On Tuesday November 17, 2020 at approximately 8:25 PM, Culver City Police Officers received a radio call of an armed robbery that just occurred at 7-11, located at 5495 Sepulveda Blvd. CCPD officers arrived on scene within one minute, however the suspect had fled the area and was not located. The suspect was described as a male, Hispanic, approximately 20 to 25 years of age, 5’10 to 6’00, with a heavy build. Once on scene, the officer learned that the suspect entered the store and approached the cashier acting as if he were purchasing a pie...
1.Pittsburgh Steelers (8-0): The Steelers escaped with a victory over hapless Dallas Cowboys, but as Mike Tomlin said after the game, "We can't keep having this conversation every week because one of these weeks we'll be doing it with an 'L." Next: -7.5 at Dallas Cowboys – Sun, Nov. 15 – O/U: 47.5 (ATS: 6-2 – O/U: 4-3-1) 2. Kansas City Chiefs (8-1): The Chiefs head into their bye week with a victory and a much-needed rest after a 33-31 victory over the Panthers. They will have an extra week...
Culver City police are looking for a man who committed a brazen armed robbery at Trader Joe's last Friday. The suspect is described a black man, 20 to 30 years of age, approximately 6-foot tall, thin build, wearing a dark blue hoodie and black pants, police said. The robbery occurred around 8:45 p.m. on November 6 at Trader Joe's, located at 9290 Culver Blvd. According to police, the suspect entered the store and held up with a semi-automatic handgun the manager who was in the process of...
Culver City Mayor Goran Eriksson received good news from the Los Angeles County Registrar this week but the City Council race is not over as mailed-in ballots are still being counted daily. The latest election update show that Eriksson passed challenger Freddy Puza for the third open seat on the City Council. The difference between the two candidates is only 20 votes. According to semi-official results released yesterday, Albert Vera still tops the field with 10,489 votes, followed by Yasmine...
Experiencing the same surge as its neighbors, Culver City recorded a sharp uptick in the rate of Coronavirus infection over the past month, the County Health Department has announced. As of press time Wednesday, the number of local residents with Covid-19rose to470cases, representing a 17.5% increase in the past 4 weeks. Deaths related to Coronavirus totaled 28 in Culver City. More than half of the deaths occurred in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. County-wide, the total infected...
County officials are alerting the public about scammers going to residences to collect in-person property tax payments from homeowners. Los Angeles County Tax Collector Keith Knox and County Assessor Jeffrey Prang said the property tax scam has been “perpetrated under the guise of Covid-19 building closures.” The County Assessor’s office has received reports of people attempting to fraudulently collect property tax payments at taxpayers’ homes because of Covid-19, officials said. These individuals may have fake identification as well as the...
DEAR EDITOR,, On a Saturday morning, during the month October 2020; more than 80 cars are lined up on the streets adjacent to a medical office building in Culver City, California. It is noted that the lines are moving slowly. Some cars have additional passengers whereas some are occupied by the driver only. Residents from the nearby apartments are out on their patios and some are looking through their windows wondering what is going on in their neighborhood. One lady shouts to an employee “Is t...
Culver City Unified School District recognizes that the holiday season can be stressful for families who are most in need. Again, this year, CCUSD School and Family Support Services is coordinating various district-wide efforts to support our CCUSD families in need during the holiday season to increase the joy and lessen the stress. The District is excited to announce its Sponsor-a-Family Program. The program will enable families to provide gifts for a family in need. Both families will remain...
The way LAFC's 2020 MLS season was trending, it was almost expected that the visiting Portland Timbers would equalize the score late during their last match of the regular reason on a cold Sunday afternoon at Banc of California Stadium last weekend. With the 1-1 tie, LAFC finished seventh in the Western Conference and will be on the road for the entire MLS Cup Playoffs. Beginning in two weeks, the club will face the defending champion Seattle Sounders at Century Link Field. "We are going to...
The late great UCLA Hall of Fame basketball coach, John Wooden, once said, "Losing is only temporary and not all encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it." That quote from Wooden could easily apply to the Los Angeles Chargers, who continue to make losing close games a habit. Against the Las Vegas Raiders last Sunday, the Chargers lost another heartbreaker when quarterback Justin...
The bye Week was a charm for the Los Angeles Rams. One week ago they were suffering after having lost to a Miami Dolphins team that had no business being in the game, yet managed to beat the Rams, 28-17, while generating only 145 total yards of offense. Los Angeles (5-3) was two games down in the lost column to the NFC West-leading Seattle Seahawks (6-1) and one game behind the second-place Arizona Cardinals (5-2). Suddenly, as the Rams prepare to host the Seahawks at SoFi Stadium this Sunday...
For the past three years Culver City high school has had one of the best football programs in the state. Now the Centaurs have arrived. They are ranked 24th in the state and 16th in Southern California. "I believed this is the first time we have been ranked that high in the state," said Culver City Athletic Director Tom Salter this week. Usually those type of high rankings are reserved for Division 1 schools, but the Centaurs have reached that elite level with outstanding players and coaches....
The UCLA men's basketball program has been ranked No. 22 in the Associated Press (AP) preseason poll, as released by the AP on Monday. The Bruins, who went 19-12 last season with a 12-6 record in the Pac-12, are one of three Pac-12 programs ranked in the preseason top-25 poll. UCLA, at No. 22, is joined by No. 18 Arizona State and No. 20 Oregon. The preseason poll's top five teams are (1) Gonzaga, (2) Baylor, (3) Villanova, (4) Virginia and (5) Iowa. The complete preseason top-25 poll is...
Premiering This Week: “Disgraced” premieres November 11 at 12 p.m. Pacific. Audio production streamed free to the public and available on demand until January 10, 2021 at https://www.centertheatregroup.org/digitalstage/streaming-series/audio-adventures/. L.A. Theatre Works audio production of “Disgraced” by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Brian Kite. Amir has left his Pakistani heritage behind in an attempt to make partner at his corporate law firm, but his wife Emily doesn’t share his negative feelings about Islam—she’s encouraged Amir to help...
You are invited to the Friends of the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center’s annual meeting and program virtually this year. The zoom is scheduled for Monday, November 16, 2020. Installation of officers and President Diana Hauptman’s review of the year will take place from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. From 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. there will be two simultaneous presentations, one for CCMS and CCHS students and another with parents. Cheryl Karp Eskin, Program Director of Teen Line, will lead the parent support webinar. The pandemic has uprooted our lives and we are...
Born Vilma Mary DiGregorio 12/31/26 Newton, Massachusetts Passed Away 5/13/20 Carlsbad, California Val began her career at Universal Studios where she worked with the Prop Department, coordinated major in-studio events and even had her own column in the studio newspaper. She also worked as an agent booking entertainers in various venues around Los Angeles. Val is best known for her years at the Legendary Chasen's Restaurant in Beverly Hills where she owned and operated the 'Coat Room' and guest...
by Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude The Santa Monica Planning Commission approved a permit for 7-Eleven convenience store to move into the former Bank of America building on Wilshire at Berkeley. The applicant requested the store be allowed to operate 24 hours a day but did not request an alcoholic beverage license. Neighbors forcefully opposed the project, which they said would generate noise, traffic, and crime. Concerns were circulated on social media claiming FBI statistics show 24-hour...
California became the second state in the U.S. to top a million Covid cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The state reached the grim milestone a week after Texas reported a million cases. Los Angeles County currently has 328,058 cases - the highest number of cases in California - followed by 73,541 cases in Riverside County, 71,847 in San Bernardino County, 63,460 in Orange County and 61,746 in San Diego County, per Johns Hopkins. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the country’s first statewide stay-at-home order on M...
An LA Superior Court judge denied a motion by Britney Spears, 38, to have her father removed as conservator of her estate. Jamie Spears has been his daughter's legal guardian for 12 years, due to concerns about her mental health. Ms Spears' lawyer said the pop star was "afraid" of him, and that she would not perform so long as he remained in the role. Her father's lawyer argued that he always acted in the best interests of his daughter. A judge said she would consider future appeals for his...
By Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude. As of Tuesday, a full week after the national election, California has only counted 82 percent of the vote. An estimated 2,740,846 ballots have not yet been counted. If this were a battleground state, important in determining a national election, we would be a complete laughingstock. Even under normal conditions, California allows county election officials nearly a month before they have to report their final results for presidential electors to the...
Again warning of a "real and alarming'" surge in COVID-19 cases, Los Angeles County's public health director Barbara Ferrer said Monday LA County is vastly expanding its community outreach efforts to educate residents about slowing transmission of the virus, especially in hard-hit areas. Los Angeles County reported 2,152 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 327,964 since the pandemic began. The City of Santa Monica had 1148 cases, giving it a case rate...
Culver City and Los Angeles firefighters extinguished a fire at a vacant commercial building on Thursday. Heavy smoke poured from the building at 10801 W. Venice Blvd., according to Nicholas Prange of the Los Angeles Fire Dept."Crews fighting fire inside the structure are now withdrawing to transition to defensive operations (applying water from the exterior only), as the battle continues," officials reported at 11:45 a.m. The building comes up in a Google search, as the Los Angeles Dental Center Building....
Santa Monica celebrated Veterans Day “as we do every year,” said a post from Acting City Manager and Interim City Attorney Lane Dilg. “Councilmember Gleam Davis and mother to a West Point graduate and service member opened the ceremony,” Dilg wrote. “Today, November 11, 2020, we celebrated Veterans Day in a virtual ceremony alongside the Los Ange-les Army Recruitment Battalion at our beautiful Veterans Memorial in Palisades Park. On this day, November 11th, each year, we honor the courage, sacrifice, and love of country of those who have serv...
The City of Santa Monica claims that it is supporting local businesses in their attempt to recover from the lockdowns and other disruptions of Covid-19 and the George Floyd riots earlier this year. "As the world navigates the new uncertainty, Santa Monica is making every effort to support our fragile local economy in a manner that is safe and equitable by increasing flexibility, leveraging City assets as community support resources, reducing red tape and fees, and supporting economic recovery th...
