Anyone who lives in West Hollywood and has a ties to the community are eligible to serve as a commissioner. The individual cannot be a City Officer or a City Employee. In addition, if a commission member is absent for more than three regular meetings in a year, the commission may declare the seat vacant.

The term will start on March 1st. The West Hollywood Public Safety Commission was established in 1989. It meets once a month. The commission is comprised of 7 members: 2 are chosen by the West Hollywood City Council, and councilmembers appoint the other 5 members. Each term lasts for 2 years. 

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The new Local Hazard Mitigation Plan includes 13 mitigation action items that the Santa Monica City Council plans to implement over the next 5 years.  Some of these items include developing a comprehensive citywide evacuation plan and expanding tsunami warning systems, and recommend that, in case of a tsunami hitting the city, residents flee on foot instead of in cars to prevent traffic gridlock that would, in turn, prevent an evacuation.

This plan will now be submitted to the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services for review and to the Federal Emergency Management Agency so it can also review the plan.

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It also establishes a Publicly Financing Authority to implement the Infrastructure Financing Plan. The district will include the area surrounding the Santa Monica Mountains.

The work will be funded through incremental property tax revenues. In addition, under Senate Bill 782 this can be done without increasing taxes on the residents in the district.

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A witness to these actions confronted them. The men fled in a white sedan. When they tried to turn onto Sweetzer Avenue, their vehicle hit another vehicle, and then the fleeing men drove onto the sidewalk and stopped in front of an apartment building. A man and a woman fled from the vehicle. 

The search continues for the other two suspects.

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department urges anyone with information that can lead to the arrest of the other suspects to contact the West Hollywood Sheriff Station at (310)855-8850.

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Authorities have not yet revealed the name of the person. Homicide detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department have been investigating the disappearance of the teen for months.

The LAPD have been able to use this social media data and the cell phone data of the singer D4vd, who is now a suspect, to determine that this second person visited the Hollywood Hills impound lot.

In addition, the authorities suspect that this person was in the vehicle, where the body of Celeste Rivas Hernandez was discovered. No arrests have been made in the case. The investigation is ongoing.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) stated on its website they are aware of the recent stories posted by various media outlets about the D4vd/Celeste Rivas investigation and would like to dispel some misinformation contained in their reporting.

The body of Celeste Rivas was not frozen when it was discovered on September 8, 2025. She had not been decapitated. We have evidence that D4vd travelled to the Santa Barbara area sometime during Spring 2025. The reason for that trip is still under investigation and no conclusions at this point about the relevance of the trip to this case.

As far as the court order, the LAPD sought to seal the records of the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s investigation into Celeste Rivas’ death. That order was sought only to ensure detectives from Robbery-Homicide Division learned of important information surrounding her death before the media and the public. The order was not sought to undermine transparency.

No other information will be provided at this time, the LAPD stated.

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In addition, the lawsuit claims the city of Santa Monica overlooked many environmental concerns, including the increased pollution the flights would cause and the impact this would have on local communities.

In response to these claims, the city of Santa Monica has exercised no discretion when considering JSX Air’s request for the permit.

The city of Santa Monica claimed that the approval of the permit was exempt under a categorical exemption for negligible expansion of existing facilities, as well as under the “common sense” exemption. They claimed the decision was a ministerial action, which gives the city manager permission to operate with discretion when considering denying or issuing commercial operations permits. Residents have disputed these claims noting that the city failed to properly review the lease that JSX will need to make on space at the airport.

The petitioners are seeking a writ of mandate compelling the city to rescind the permit approval and an injunction preventing Santa Monica from permitting JSK to operate at the airport until the city has fully complied with the requirements for an environmental review.

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After being yelled at, he jumped into a car and drove off. The driver turned left onto Santa Monica Boulevard, then right onto North Sweetzer Avenue, where he hit another vehicle and forced it into the garbage truck. The first vehicle went over the curb and into the bushes in front of the apartment building.

According to a witness to the collision, two calls were made to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to report the crash and attempted theft that occurred at Joey’s restaurant.

The authorities are working to determine if the people who fled from the crash site are connected to the person who committed the attempted theft at the restaurant. The investigation is ongoing.

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Taylor was not to expected to go to trial as he had been diverted due to being diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, an opiate use disorder, and bipolar disorder, but now faces a criminal trial.

In California, diversion is when a suspect who is mentally ill is sentenced to receive court treatment instead of jail time.

Taylor was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, and hate crime enhancements. He was granted diversion in March of this year by Judge Lana Kim.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney, Nathan Hochman, submitted a petition seeking to have the judges ordered vacated as Job Uriah Taylor attacked two more African-Americans on the day he attacked Hornburg. Taylor’s medical records indicate he engaged in hostile and aggressive action towards the staff on the facility in which he is being treated.

Last month, the California Court of Appeals granted that petition as they believed that nothing proved that Taylor would not be a danger to public safety if he was released.

Taylor will now face trial on the charges for which he was arrested. A pre-trial hearing will occur in December 2025. If he is found guilty, Taylor will face a life sentence in prison.

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She claims that the pay her male coworkers received increased three times, while she received no raise, and that she was mocked when she complained to the director about her pay wage.

In May 2024, she submitted a complaint to the hotel’s management about the harassment, including unequal pay and an investigation was initiated. Birr found that management excluded her from overseeing major events and assigned her demeaning tasks. A month later, she was forced to go on medical leave because of high blood pressure and panic attacks. In her lawsuit, she claims that while she was on leave, hotel management continued to mistreat her. Birr is seeking both punitive and compensatory damages from the Beverly Hills Hotel.

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Brad Lipshy, 61, was killed in the crash and is the CEO of an event planning firm based in Santa Monica.

The collision occurred near the Von’s grocery store in the 1300 block of Wilshire Boulevard. The crash transpired after 9 p.m. According to the Santa Monica Police Department, a vehicle was traveling the wrong way as it was driving westbound via the eastbound lanes. 

The vehicle went onto the south sidewalk and struck Lipshy and the other person who were both killed at the scene. The name of the other victim has not been disclosed to the public. 

The Major Accident Response Team of the Santa Monica Police Department is investigating the collision.

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On October 2, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., the alley between Lasky and Spalding Drives was closed to allow geotechnical instruments that had to be removed.

Work will be done on the curb lanes on Wilshire Boulevard and at the Beverly Drive station. Two lanes will remain open between Beverly and Crescent Drives along Wilshire Boulevard. Left turns will be restricted when vehicles travel westbound towards South Cañon Drive.

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Adame has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.  She was charged with second-degree murder and practicing medicine without a license, and in October, she was found guilty.

The name of Adame’s sole victim is Cindyanne Santangelo.  She was a professional dancer and actress.  She died in March at her home.  Cindyanne Santangelo died from a silicone embolism.  The cause of this was silicone oil that was injected into her rear, and, unknown to her, it migrated from the spot where it had been injected to her bloodstream, and then the oil spread into her lungs. There, the oil caused a silicone embolism, which prevented her lungs from being able to supply oxygen to her body.  It became difficult to breathe.  Afterwards, she died.

Santangelo lived in Malibu.  She died on March 24 at the age of 58. During her acting career, she appeared in guest roles on the television shows “Married… with Children,” “E.R.” and “CSI: Miami.”

Libby Adame was at Cindyanne Santangelo’s house when she died.  However, Adame’s lawyers disputed the charges against her while in court and claimed that she was there to perform a consultation with the actress and did not perform he procedure.

In 2024, Libby Adame was convicted of involuntary manslaughter along with her daughter, Alicia Galaz, for illegally injecting silicone into Karissa Rajpaul. She died from an embolism.

In this case, both Adame and her daughter were sentenced to prison.  However, a judge later ordered that both of them be released as the judge believed that they had already completed their required prison time, while they were forced to wear electronic monitoring devices.

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In addition, the National Weather Service Forecast Office for Los Angeles recommends that residents run their air conditioner to stay cool over the weekend and to avoid using any device that can bring in outside air.

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In addition, the fire department needs to turn over communications sent and received between 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and 10 a.m. on January 7 regarding reports of hotspots, smoke, and fire that occurred between the Temescal Ridge Trail and the Leacock Trailhead.

The subpoena requires all officers of the Los Angeles Fire Department to turn over to the federal investigators screenshots of the text messages they received on their devices issued to them by the department about any calls, dispatches, or communications about the Lachman Fire and the Pacific Palisades Fire.

It is the same with text messages and calls that the officers received on their personal devices.

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A struggle ensued between the two men.  The robber soon found himself on the ground, being held in place by the former wrestler, but the struggle continued, where another individual ran over to assist the wrestler.

As the wrestler held the robber down on the ground, his girlfriend pried the gun out of the robber’s hand and threw the weapon away.  Afterwards, the couple was joined by a utility worker who had been working on a nearby house.  He helped them by holding down the suspect’s legs, and authorities were called. 

Deputies with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department arrived on the scene. The wrestler informed authorities that he and his girlfriend had been walking when a sedan pulled over, after which the robber emerged from the vehicle.

The former wrestler and his girlfriend did not release their names as they desired to remain anonymous. A second man emerged from the sedan, but instead of joining the robbery attempt, he climbed back into the sedan and fled the scene.

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