December 7, 2025
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Shooting in Santa Monica Off 7th and Marine:

On September 30, 2009 at 6:10 P.M., Officers responded to the area of 7th and Marine Street regarding a radio call of “shots fired.” Upon arrival officers located two individuals who had been struck by […]

Virtual Sex: The Phenomena of “Sexting”:

By: Jordan Alper, Crossroads High School Student High school senior Rebecca Jones has never kissed a boy. But she has had sex over text message. Jones, who attends Notre Dame High School in Monterey, is […]

Breakfast Celebrates Success:

The 14th annual Success Breakfast sponsored by the Westside Shelter and Hunger Coalition (WSHC) drew a record crowd of nearly 500 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel on Friday, September 25, as the Coalition celebrated the […]

Michael Rosenthal: 1953 – 2009:

Michael Shelly Rosenthal passed away after a lengthy battle with Renal cell carcinoma. He was 56. A native Angeleno, Michael was born at County General Hospital, though he was fond of telling everyone he was […]

Forum Looks at Key Westside Land:

A huge chunk of Westside real estate may in large measure determine the future of property development and traffic patterns in the region, and so the UCLA campus and the Veterans Administration grounds were the […]

Alert: Police Blotter:

Couch Potato. Wednesday, September 23, 4:16 p.m. Officers of The Santa Monica Police Department went to the Zvezda store in the 600 block of Santa Monica Boulevard because they had been informed that an intoxicated […]

Community Gives Input On Beach Restroom Design:

As part of the process of replacing eight of its beach restrooms, the City of Santa Monica held a community open house at the Beach Green on Barnard Way to ask the community about what […]

Big Blue Bus Opens New Maintenance Facility:

Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) has been working on expanding its facilities for almost a decade. The most recent addition to its campus is a new 66,000 square foot maintenance facility located at 1620 […]

Advocating For Arts Education:

Funding for arts education in public schools has been decreasing for years and with the current economic downturn things have gone from bad to worse nationwide. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) is one […]