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Fearing that mass evictions could follow after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed rent cap and stronger tenant protections into law, the Los Angeles City Council has approved an emergency moratorium on no-fault evictions. In front of a raucous pro-tenant crowd in City Hall, the city council Tuesday approved the moratorium that prevents a landlord or rental property owner, whose building was built prior to 2005, from kicking out tenants before the new AB-1482 rules take effect in January. The moratorium...
SM Homeopathic Pharmacy celebrated its 75th anniversary with a Ribbon Cutting on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. In 1944, Norman and Mary Litvak felt it was "their patriotic duty to serve people by providing a pharmacy that would help keep them healthy" despite the World War, explains a publicist. Their store was originally founded as the Santa Monica Drug Company on October 8, 1944 on 7th Street and Broadway. "Norman and Mary pioneered a new kind of pharmacy, with care of the customer as the...
Being the apparent successor to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a lifetime appointment, but you might not live very long. Bagdadi's successor is also dead, President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. According to Mr. Trump, the unidentified "number one replacement has been terminated by American troops." "Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!" the president tweeted. The...
Karna Roa shot the photo of her career on Saturday at a rehearsal dinner in Sonoma County. Curtis and Katie Furland, a couple from Chicago were rehearsing for their wedding, wearing masks over their faces. A yellow sun can be seen in the background. Vendors and guests were forced to evacuate themselves before the wedding, and the newlywed couple evacuated Sunday morning--after the wedding. "The sunset was red and smoky because of all the smoke from the fire," said Roa. The newlyweds, from Chicag...
LOS ANGELES, CA (October 25th, 2019) – Advocacy Honors honored Tony Goldwyn (Scandal), WAM/Maria Shriver (American journalist) Isha Sesay (CNN) and RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad) at the Fifth Annual Television Industry Advocacy Awards presented by TCL North America last night at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA. The event was hosted by Lu Parker and included special guest speaker Rachel Pittman of the United Nations Association and presenters Minnie Driver, Liz Hernandez, Renee L...
On Thursday October 17, 2019 The International Myeloma Foundation presented its 13th Annual Comedy Celebration hosted by Ray Romano at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, 9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills. This event is the biggest fundraiser benefiting the Peter Boyle Research Fund established in 2007 after the passing of the venerated actor in 2007. Since that time extraordinary advances in treatment and diagnosis of myeloma patient have exceeded all expectations. The Black Swan Research prodject has...
Three men were shot dead and nine other people were injured in a shooting that took place at a home next to a Long Beach nail salon at Seventh Street and Temple Avenue. The shooting happened just before 11 pm Tuesday night, Oct. 29 2019, in the back yard of a home at Temple Avenue and East Seventh Street in Long Beach. Three men were killed, all in their 20's, and all attending a Halloween party at a residence. Jake Heflin, Public Information Officer for the LBPD, said that the incident was...
What some authorities are calling the worst "Red Flag Alert" since 2009, has caused fires mostly in Ventura County. LA County has so far escaped the worst of it. Nevertheless, the SMMUSD will close Malibu Schools on Halloween, 10/31. Santa Monica Schools will remain open. Malibu schools were closed on 10/30 as well, but not Santa Monica Schools, which were open. Below is the press release from the District: Dear Santa Monica parents and staff, Based on current and predicted air quality and weath...
The Los Angeles Fire Department is announcing the repopulation of areas impacted by the Getty Fire. Effective October 30, 2019. http://tinyurl.com/y3ozamzm . #GettyFire #Repopulation; INC#0074; 5:00PM; 1800 N Sepulveda Blvd; http://lafd.org/news/getty-fire; #LosAngeles Effective October 30, 2019 at 5:00PM, All Mandatory Evacuation orders and Warnings are lifted with the exception of the areas between: 1) West border: Kenter Ave 2) South border: Sunset Blvd 3) North border: Area just south of...
An FBI report says that violent crime is up in Santa Monica. The report says that on a per capita basis, Santa Monica was the third most unsafe city in California, after San Francisco and Oakland. The report posits that on an adjusted basis, Santa Monica had 5966 Part One Crimes per 100,000 population, including property and violent crimes. SM beats San Bernardino, with 5468 crimes, in 4th place. Stockton was in 5th place with 5168 Part One Crimes per 100,000 residents. Oakland was in first...
Two men have admitted to stealing nearly $4 million in cash and luxury vehicles in a high-end automobile sublease scam from 2017 to 2019 in the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Arman Mave Hazarian (dob 11/5/71), aka Dean Hazarian, of Tarzana and Afshin Hashemi (dob 8/8/71), aka Al Hashemi, of Hollywood both pleaded no contest yesterday to three felony counts of grand theft of an automobile and one felony count of grand theft of cash....