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MONTEREY PARK, CA – East Los Angeles College's (ELAC) full-time political science professor and director of the pathway to law program Kenneth Chaiprasert was one of four community college faculty members in the state of California to earn the California Community Colleges' Gerald C. Hayward Award for Excellence in Education. Professor Chaiprasert was selected for his work with pre-law students at ELAC. In his class, his students discover their strengths from their diversity and use p...
Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of the video-sharing app TikTok, will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to respond to concerns about the app's links to the Chinese government and its data-handling practices, as talk of a forced sale or outright ban gathers (even more) steam in Washington. Based on a prepared version of his remarks that was released by the committee late Tuesday, Chew plans to focus on the fact that millions of small businesses in the US use TikTok, and also on freedom...
Reward of Up to $20,000 Offered in Exchange for Information Leading to Location of Woman Believed to Have Been Kidnapped in Mexico. The FBI's Los Angeles Field Office is seeking the public's help and is offering a reward of up to $20,000 in exchange for information that leads to the physical location of a woman believed to have been kidnapped earlier this year. Maria del Carmen Lopez, 63, was kidnapped from her residence in Pueblo Nuevo, Colima, Mexico, on February 9. Lopez is an American citize...
DEMAND ACTION! 72% of students aren't meeting basic proficiencies in California schools, but the school union bosses call a strike to demand big pay raises. It's time to declare a crisis and bring in new leadership!...
California's reparations task force has spoken: African Americans who are direct descendants of slaves living in the U.S. in the 19th century should receive over $360,000 each in reparations from the California taxpayers as well as an apology. In San Francisco, African Americans whether or not they descended from slaves would also receive $5 million each, $98,000 a year for 250 years, an entire house for just $1, and would be excused from paying any consumer debt payments or taxes for the rest...
Los Angeles, CA – In an effort to cover-up the massive amount of wrongly disqualified signatures submitted for the recall of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters continues to stonewall the Recall Committee's right to conduct a meaningful and timely review in direct defiance of a recently granted preliminary injunction ordering greater access and transparency. In furtherance of a "run out the clock" strategy, the Registrar is now seeking to i...
SAN RAMON, CALIFORNIA - coAmplifi, a CuraeSoft creation, is reimagining the workplace by offering an online platform that facilitates the transition of companies to remote work. As the US economy slows down amid rising inflation and interest rates, businesses like CuraeSoft have adopted remote work to help employees enhance productivity, achieve better work-life balance, and cope with the effects of a sluggish economy. The COVID-19 pandemic forced numerous companies to shift to remote work....
MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA - Michael Golden, a 19-year-old college student at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, has created a revolutionary AI detector to prevent academic plagiarism. The AI detector, called IntegrityAI, is an online tool that has been programmed to identify any potential AI plagiarism within written content. Users can use this tool by inputting text for the detector to determine if the content was written by a human or AI. By recognizing patterns and comparing the likelihood...
The parking structure for the Compton Courthouse, located at 222 S. Acacia Ave., Compton, is temporarily closed due to a power outage. The Compton Courthouse, located at 200 W. Compton Blvd., Compton, remains open for business. As soon as the power is restored, the parking structure will re-open. In the interim, litigants, attorneys and jurors are instructed to use available metered parking located around the courthouse, which is limited to 1 to 2 hours. Jurors, if given a parking citation, may provide a copy of the citation to the Criminal...
.Five years ago, we were able to stop Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR) from being installed in Culver City. Now, CCPD is campaigning to deploy them again. CCPD is giving a presentation this Thursday at 6:30 pm. Let's remind them that Culver City is still a SANCTUARY CITY and allowing ALRPs in Culver City would be a violation of this policy. Eighty law enforcement agencies in California, already share data with ICE. Culver City shouldn't be one of them. No to ALPRs, Yes to Sanctuary...
Please join BIKE CULVER CITY at Syd Kronenthal Park MONDAY on March 26th at 6PM and BIKE TO SAVE MOVE CULVER CITY! Please register to speak on 'items not on the agenda"....
On Friday March 24, at 11:00 pm, the Culver City Police Department received a call regarding an armed robbery that had just occurred at 7-11, located at 10638 Culver Blvd. Officers arrived on the scene and met with the female victim employee, who explained that two suspects entered the business wearing ski masks and began walking around the store. The suspects approached the front counter and that is when Suspect #1 produced a semi-automatic handgun pointed it at her and demanded that she open...
An appeals court ruled Monday in favor of companies that want to classify some workers as independent contractors, saying that Proposition 22 is mostly constitutional. Justices in a California court of appeals ruled today that Proposition 22 — a 2020 ballot measure that allowed Uber, Lyft, and other platforms to classify their workers as independent contractors rather than employees – is largely constitutional, but that part of the measure is invalid. The distinction between employees and contractors is important: Employees have the right to a...
California State Treasurer Fiona Ma today issued the following statement after the CalPERS board voted to take a position on Senate Bill 252: "It's time to take the next step in climate action. Divestment sends a message to companies that have shown little interest in seriously addressing a problem that places human existence in peril for the sake of profits: time's up. The next generation is already making clear that they won't accept climate inaction and we should put our money where our...
LOS ANGELES, CA (March 16TH)- Councilwoman Traci Park and other City Officials gathered with the community on Thursday, March 16 to celebrate the inauguration of the Venice Dual Force Main Sewer Project. The Venice Dual Force Main Sewer Project is a new two-mile long 54-inch force sewer main that will operate as a parallel system in conjunction with the existing 48-inch force main. This pipeline provides system redundancy, increases capacity, and allows for inspection and repair of both...
This Saturday, March 18th between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. near 12257 Venice Boulevard in downtown Mar Vista, this one-day event promises to be bigger and better than last year. The previous Venice Fest had over 50,000 attendees Organizers are projecting to have over 100,000 attendees at the Venice Love Fest this year. The event will be a complete takeover of Venice Boulevard with an assortment of LA's most curated brands and over 400 artists. Attendees can expect some of LA's best food trucks,...
Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency (PUTT) applauds the decision by the California Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court’s ruling that the forced arbitration clause included in OptumRx’s pharmacy network contract is unconscionable. Owned by UnitedHealth Group, OptumRx is one of the “Big 3” pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that together process more than 80% of the patient pharmacy claims submitted through insurance. “We are encouraged by the Court’s decision and congratulate Mark Cuker and Jacobs Law Group for their efforts to...
Roof King Roofing & Solar, a leading provider of roofing and solar solutions, is proud to announce the launch of its Solar Letter of Intent Program (SLIP). With the SLIP program, homeowners can protect their Net Energy Metering (NEM) 2 rates and make informed solar decisions without the pressure of a rushed installation. NEM 2 is a significant incentive program that allows homeowners to save money by selling excess energy generated by their solar panels back to the utility grid. However, NEM 2...
The American humanitarian relief organization Ukraine Focus delivered its first shipment of ambulances to Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces (TDF), with American volunteers driving the ambulances from Slovakia into Ukraine today. The three ambulances were donated by the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation, the Western Henrico (Va.) Rotary Club, and HUMAN Security, a global cybersecurity company. The delivery also included 2,000 winter coats donated by John JD Liu and Frank FY Liu, Chinese-American businessmen. The mission was led by former U.S....
LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities today announced a series of child sexual exploitation cases alleging the victimization of minors – sometimes by convicted sex offenders – and charging a range of crimes that include sex trafficking, enticing a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity and producing child pornography. United States Attorney Martin Estrada, FBI Assistant Director in Charge Donald Alway, and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Eddy Wang made the announcement. In eight new cases filed in recen...
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has announced that Silverado Senior Living Management, Inc., and three managers have been charged in connection with 14 COVID-related deaths at its residential care facility in 2020. “The investigation revealed that the Silverado management team was aware of the risks associated with admitting a new resident from a high-risk area and failed to follow the appropriate procedures to protect their employees and the vulnerable people in their care,” District Attorney Gascón said. “These careles...
Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed budget would cut funding for coastal resilience projects almost in half, eliminating more than half a billion dollars of state funds this year that would help protect the coast against rising seas and climate change. The cuts are part of Newsom's proposed $6 billion in reductions to California's climate change programs in response to a projected $22.5 billion statewide deficit. California's coastal resilience programs provide funding for local governments to prepare coastal plans and pay for some projects that...
As part of an international law enforcement effort, federal authorities in Los Angeles this week seized an internet domain that was used to sell computer malware used by cybercriminals to take control of infected computers and steal a wide array of information. A seizure warrant approved by a United States Magistrate Judge on March 3 and executed on Tuesday led to the seizure of www.worldwiredlabs.com, which offered the NetWire remote access trojan (RAT), a sophisticated program capable of targeting and infecting every major computer operating...
Culver City High School's Academy of Visual & Performing Arts program (AVPA) had to GOT more creative than it's ever been before (and that's saying a lot). CCHS Theatre Creative Director Lee Margaret Hanson and CCMS/CCHS Film Teacher Holly Gable directed a short film called "Reflections", featuring a physically-distanced cast and crew of 28 CCHS female students. The powerful piece of poetry that underscores the film was written by an amazing young woman, Ginger Anderson-Willis, when she was in eighth grade. Now a senior about to graduate from...
Friday, March 10th, A former resident of the Fairfax District of Los Angeles has been arrested on a criminal complaint alleging he defrauded investors, primarily members of the Orthodox Jewish community, by inducing them into investing millions of dollars in his security camera business and his purported real estate ventures in Israel, the Justice Department announced today. Yossi Engel, 35, who moved to Israel in March 2021 but temporarily returned to the Los Angeles area last month, is charged with one count of wire fraud. Engel was arrested...
