11.21.2009

Suspects In Stabbing Plead Guilty

On September 25, around 9:45 p.m., a 17-year-old Inglewood resident was stabbed after a Santa Monica High School home football game.

On November 2, suspects Christopher Diaz and Kenneth Jones agreed to a plea bargain with the Santa Monica District Attorney’s Office. The charges agreed upon were misdemeanor battery as well as promoting a Street Gang. They were later sentenced to 180 days in jail and three years probabtion.

The two suspects were originally booked on attempted murder but the charges were reduced based on the plea araingments.

The stabbing took place just after Santa Monica High’s victory over rival Venice High at Santa Monica College’s Corsair Field.

Director’s Showcase at Santa Monica Library

The Santa Monica Library will be hosting a live theatre showcase today at 2 p.m. The Showcase will have four directors; Edward Edwards, Misti Barnes, Nancy Charles, and Louis Yansen.

Each will direct live scenes of approximately ten minutes in length. After all of the scenes are completed, the directors will take part in a Q&A session with the audience.

This even is free to the public and tickets will be made available at 1 p.m. nut will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.

Possible Ban on Smoking: In Your Own Home

Residents of Santa Monica may one day need to leave heir own house, just to have a smoke.

Rent Control Board Member Robert Kronovet, is going to sponsor a ban on smoking in all apartments in Santa Monica. The plan is to ban smoking in all apartments that share a common wall or ceiling with a neighboring apartment. This ban would also extend to any patios or balconies.

There is already a ban on smoking in common areas of apartment building. Many residents have reached out to the board in order to expand the ban to include actual individual apartments. Kronovet said, “in a nutshell, smoking in a multi family units has become in many people’s view a health issue.”

Kronovet hopes that the bard will adopt this ordinance during a Dec. 3 meeting. Hoping that the talks will lead to a new ordinance and regulations that at least cover mutli-family units.