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At 6:05 a.m. Thursday morning, a woman was shot in the thigh at the west end of the Santa Monica Pier. The woman remains in the hospital in stable condition while the shooter remains at large. “One of our local fishermen here contacted a Harbor Guard and ...
Santa Monica Daily Press
A 26-year-old woman is recovering from a gunshot wound to her thigh after an incident at the Santa Monica Pier around 6:00 a.m. Thursday, according to Sgt. Rudy Flores with the Santa Monica Police Department. The wound is not life threatening. A nearby ...
Santa Monica Observed
There has been a shooting on the Santa Monica Pier, the first in 2018. Police have tapped off the entire Santa Monica Pier, and removed several thousand people from it on a summer day. The popular tourist attraction is also a center of crime in Santa ...Santa Monica Observed
There has been a shooting on the Santa Monica Pier, the first in 2018. Police have tapped off the entire Santa Monica Pier, and removed several thousand people from it on a summer day. The popular tourist attraction is also a center of crime in Santa ...
Santa Monica Observed
Santa Monica, 8/22: With beach season in full swing, environmental nonprofit Heal the Bay today launched the Beach Report Card mobile application, which offers beach water-quality predictions each morning to millions of California ocean users. The group ...
Santa Monica Mirror
Photo: Courtesy. Sherwin Mendoza Espinosa faces 40 to life. A Los Angeles man has been found guilty in the 2017 murder of an 18-year old Santa Monica High School graduate and now faces a potential life sentence. On Tuesday, August 21 Deputy District ...Santa Monica Daily Press
Starting this week, a new public education campaign to equip electric scooter riders with the rules of the road will launch in Santa Monica and the Westside. Safe riding tips will be displayed on the Big Blue Bus, Metro buses, Expo Line trains and stations ...
Santa Monica Daily Press
They were leaving. There was a body on the ground,” de la Torre recalled at Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday when he took the stand in a voting rights trial challenging Santa Monica’s system of government. The activist was only a teenager the day ...
Santa Monica Mirror
“You Got Me Floatin’ Opens” on Sunday, August 26 from 4-7 p.m. at the Upper West Restaurant, 3321 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica 90404. Veronique Periano will be in attendance at the artist reception. This is a free event, open to the public. For ...
Santa Monica Mirror
Last week, I had my gallbladder removed. My doctors discovered that it was inflamed, and contained many gallstones. One of the gallstones was stuck in a pathway where the gallbladder, pancreas and liver distilled and digested the food and drinks I ...
Santa Monica Mirror
Rock legend Roger Daltrey of The Who stopped by the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica last week to visit teens undergoing cancer treatment at the UCLA Daltrey/Townshend Teen and Young Adult Cancer Center. The UCLA center, dedicated to supporting teens ...