This week on Focus On Fitness host Kristin Strange gives us alternatives for unhealthy snacks.

Los Angeles-based nonprofit Last Chance for Animals (LCA) is joining a worldwide coalition of animal rights organizations to stage a vigil tonight in Santa Monica.

A suspicious item has just been removed from the Metro Expo Line Station in downtown Santa Monica at Fourth Street and Colorado Avenue, which had been closed briefly, according to Metro. Full rail service is resuming, according to Metro.

Lionsgate, the Santa Monica studio behind the "Hunger Games" films, will acquire cable and satellite network Starz for a combination of cash and stock totaling $4.4 billion, the two companies announced today.

Funeral services were pending Tuesday for Santa Monica’s Simon Ramo, a lifetime member of the Caltech Board of Trustees, a co-founder of TRW Inc. and the chief scientific mind behind the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missile system.

Essentia is hosting a ‘A Summer Celebration’ featuring recent works by three local artists: Gino Perez, Kathy Shorkey and Jason Ryan.

A performance of “Room 17” by our own Steve Stajich takes place at the Great Scott Theatre at the MET Theater building, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue, Los Angeles tonight.

Fridays are Julia Torrano’s favorite day of the week. There’s the TGIF thing of course, but that’s not the main reason. What she enjoys most is her weekly, four-hour volunteer shift visiting older patients as part of the Companion Care Program at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica.

Assemblymember Richard Bloom will be honoring Andrew “Andy” Harland at the ninth annual “Veterans of the Year” Luncheon.

Two California Assembly Committees have passed important, life-saving drunk driving legislation with unanimous votes. The next stop for SB 1046 by Senator Jerry Hill, which would require ignition interlocks for all drunk driving offenders in California, is the Assembly Appropriations Committee.