October 9, 2026
October 9, 2026
Ocean water flooded streets and properties on Newport Beach's Balboa Peninsula on Friday as elevated tides and powerful swells driven by Tropical Storm Rachel inundated low-lying coastal areas. City officials urged residents and visitors to avoid the peninsula while crews responded to the flooding. Aerial footage showed seawater covering residential streets, with vehicles partially submerged and people wading through the water. Police restricted access in parts of the area to...
James Talarico's nearly two-week absence from the Texas campaign trail has turned a reported case of the flu into one of the sharper late-stage disputes in the state's U.S. Senate race. The Democratic nominee's campaign maintains he is recovering from influenza diagnosed at a Dallas urgent care on or around September 29 and expects to return to in-person events this weekend. Republican opponents, led by Attorney General Ken Paxton, have treated the gap as evidence of evasion....
A Santa Monica resident is accusing Mayor Caroline Torosis and City Manager Oliver Chi of assembling a closed process for city land, including the airport after it closes. The accusation is not that a new agency already controls every sale. It is that several public actions, taken together, remove the old checks and point the city toward a much larger role as landowner, landlord, and developer. In a letter to the Santa Monica Observer, resident Harriet Epstein wrote that...
Federal and local officers carried out a coordinated drug enforcement operation Thursday morning in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, centered on the area around Fifth and Crocker streets. The action, called Operation Save Skid Row, followed a multi-month investigation and resulted in the arrest of 23 of 28 people charged in federal complaints with distributing fentanyl, methamphetamine, PCP, and other drugs. The operation was planned in advance. Officials described an...
As of October 8–9, 2026, Russian authorities say the quarantine and medical observation linked to the death of laboratory technician Darya Shipilova have ended, with no secondary cases and no dangerous pathogens found in nearly 5,000 samples. They still have not published a definitive cause of death. The World Health Organization continues to ask what tests were run and, if the illness was not plague, what killed her. Shipilova, 28, worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague...
Los Angeles County prosecutors say a couple and their nanny subjected at least 14 surrogate-born children to repeated physical abuse inside an Arcadia mansion. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced Tuesday that Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, both of Arcadia, were charged with conspiracy to commit child abuse and related offenses involving children as young as 2 months old who lived in their home. A nanny, Chunmei Li, 57, was previously...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations intercepted the boat around 1:30 p.m. south of Newport Beach using a Coastal Interceptor Vessel from the Long Beach Marine Unit, according to the Department of Homeland Security and a statement from CBP. The vessel, described as resembling a recreational fishing boat, carried 11 adult men, two adult women, and one accompanied juvenile male. All told authorities they were Mexican nationals. Agents transported the...
SANTA MONICA - The Victorian is closing permanently at the end of October, after 20 years as a restaurant, event space, and nightlife venue in the historic house at 2640 Main Street. The business announced the decision on Instagram on October 5, writing, "After 20 incredible years, The Victorian is closing its doors, but not before we say thank you." Its final weekend will be the annual Halloween party, leaving four weekends of service before the doors close for good. In the...
Santa Monica police are investigating a traffic collision at 22nd Street and Wilshire Blvd. Wilshire Blvd is closed to through traffic for the investigation. A Tesla S Car with it's airbags deployed seen at intersection; Police were interviewing people from the Tower Medical Center. This is a breaking news...
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year. It falls at the end of the High Holy Days and is observed with fasting, prayer, and reflection. The day is devoted to atonement, seeking forgiveness, and resolving to begin the new year with a cleaner moral slate. Services begin the evening before and end at sundown the next day, traditionally marked by the sounding of the shofar. High Holiday Yom Kippur services at Temple of the Arts, held at the Saban Theatre, 8440 Wilshire...
A man suspected of fatally shooting Culver CityBus driver Bruce Rodriguez in Mar Vista has been booked for murder, Los Angeles police said, as family, coworkers and neighbors gathered Saturday night in Culver City to remember the 42-year-old father of two. The shooting happened around 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, on a Culver CityBus near Mitchell and Centinela avenues, in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. Other accounts placed the scene along Centinela near...
