State panel grants temporary endangered species status to Southern California cougars

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Mountain lions are not listed as threatened statewide. But the petition cites recent scientific studies showing that the lions roaming the Santa Ana, San Gabriel, Santa Monica, Santa Cruz and Tehachapi ranges make up a genetically distinct subspecies that is approaching what some experts call an “extinction vortex.” There’s an almost 1 in ...
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Your favorite souvenirs: Readers share their wildest and wackiest travel keepsakes

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I saved the warning and the next day’s newspaper headline. Plush toy, Santa Monica Pier, 2012. I live in Washington state and the love of my life lives in the Los Angeles area. Long distance is hard. Schedules don’t always line up. So we had gone a long while without seeing each other. I had never been to the pier so we went, we rode the ...
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This day in sports: Phillies’ Mike Schmidt hits four home runs in one game

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Dr. J has 38 in the Philadelphia 76ers game against Indiana to join Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 1994 — Carl Lewis and his Santa Monica Track Club teammates upgrade their world record in the 800-meter relay at the Mt. SAC Relays. Lewis, Mike Marsh, Leroy Burrell and Floyd Heard are timed at 1:18.68 at the Hilmer Lodge Stadium ...
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L.A. County to address outbreak after highest single-day spike in number of COVID-19 deaths

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In Santa Monica, a union told the Associated Press 10 nurses were suspended from Providence Saint John’s Health Center after demanding N95 masks which the hospital said weren’t necessary. Meanwhile, about a third of all virus-related deaths in the county have been tied to nursing homes or similar care facilities. The House of ...
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TigerConnect Launches TigerTouch Video and Voice Telehealth Features to Help Hospitals Combat COVID-19

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- TigerConnect, healthcare's most advanced, reliable and widely adopted care team collaboration solution, today launched TigerTouch to help health systems manage COVID-19 cases.
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Telemundo Stations to Air Climate Change Documentary ‘Cambio Climatico’ April 22

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It ventures on to Santa Monica to look at wildfires, Fresno to look at agriculture, Miami to study sea levels, New York to examine snow storms and coastal flooding, Niagara Falls to study lake temperatures and Houston to examine severe flooding.
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10 Nurses Suspended After Refusing to Treat Patients Without Being Given N95 Masks

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Ten nurses have been suspended with pay from their jobs at Providence St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, after they refused to treat coronavirus patients without N95 masks. The nurses said they weren't provided masks and then told to care for patients. Now the hospital, which said it has started issuing the masks to everyone ...
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