Jaguar is lead for Hermosa Beach detectives
Police detectives used witness accounts of a green Jaguar getaway car to nab three suspects and seize several thousand dollars worth of cosmetics, clothing and other merchandise stolen from stores and pharmacies in the beach cities and Los Angeles. The three had left a store in Manhattan Beach when Hermosa detectives recognized their Jaguar as […]
Hermosa Beach News Briefs, Feb 8, 2012
To the wall The second of 10 planned outdoor murals in Hermosa Beach will be formally unveiled 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. The unveiling of the mural, on the eastern wall of New Orleans Café, will be viewed from the rooftop of the200 Pier Ave.office-retail complex, where complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar will […]
Hermosa Beach cameraman roams Super sidelines
Dan Marinelli, a.k.a. “Danimal,” is bringing his game face and a detailed playbook to Super Bowl XLVI. He’s not one of the players, but he’ll capture them from the sidelines on a handheld TV camera, while his fellow Hermosans sit in front of their sets and enjoy his work. Marinelli, 46, a two-time Emmy-winning TV […]
NBC Super Bowl by the numbers
Figures tell the tale of NBC-TV’s exhaustive preparations to bring the 46th Super Bowl to some 100 million viewers. 475 – People making up the network’s production, technical, administrative and support crews. 116 — Microphones, including 12 on-field super-sensitive parabolic mics, which can be made to pick up sounds miles away. 57 — High definition […]
Magic Water flows to Hermosa Beach
After chugging about three beer-pitchers worth of high-alkaline, ionized water at the Kangen Hydration Center, a tired reporter felt an alert energy return.
Raising the bar in Hermosa Beach
One man’s fight to curtail alcohol and Hermosa Beach’s partying nightlife: Jim Lissner who has become a central figure in Hermosa’s fight between the right to do business and enjoy a drink and the right to enjoy peace and quiet in neighborhoods pushed up tightly against the nightlife areas.
Hermosa Beach city manager announces retirement
Hermosa Beach City Manager Steve Burrell has announced his retirement from the post he has held for nearly two decades. “It just becomes time,” he said.
Charges dropped in crash with Hermosa Beach officer
Charges have been dropped against a motorist accused of causing a collision that sent Hermosa Beach Police Officer Anthony Parente tumbling from his motorcycle into the back seat of a convertible, according to the driver’s attorney. Thomas Beck, attorney for the motorist, Brian Hitchcock, said he was able to prove the accident was not caused […]
Hermosa Beach schools back to drawing board
The city school board will continue to study possible money-raising and money-saving measures, such as a parcel tax and further consolidation of school district jobs, after failing to persuade the City Council to consider a tax measure of its own. Last week the council was told that it could face a legal challenge if it […]
Captain named interim Hermosa Beach chief
Capt. Steve Johnson, a 27-year law enforcement veteran who joined the Hermosa Beach Police Department about five months ago, has been named interim police chief while a replacement is sought for Greg Savelli, who left to lead the Los Angeles Bureau of Parking Enforcement and Traffic Control. “I have full confidence in Capt. Johnson and […]
Friend: slain Hermosa Beach woman was threatened
A Hermosa Beach man accused of shooting his girlfriend to death had aimed a gun at her head once before, said a friend of the slain woman. “It was around April, she called me up and she was really upset,” said the friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “She said ‘You can’t tell anybody, […]
$2 million bail in Hermosa Beach killing
Bail bonds have always been apart of helping people get out of custody, but today this bail has been set at $2 million for David Brian Abbott, 33, who has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, prosecutors said. The Dec. 31 shooting of Samantha Ann Sproson, […]
Building bridges in Hermosa Beach
In terms of helping the aging brain, few activities trump the card game bridge. A sweeping study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York found that playing bridge, chess or a musical instrument helps ward off dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. And local bridge teacher Jeff Grotenhuis says the game he loves […]
Hermosa Beach police chief goes to L.A.
Police Chief Greg Savelli will become chief of the Los Angeles Bureau of Parking Enforcement and Traffic Control on Tuesday. Savelli announced last week that he is ending his five-year tenure in Hermosa on Thursday, Jan. 12. He is widely credited with improving police standards, forging fresh links with residents and stemming a tide of […]
Hermosa Beach school tax could face challenge
Hermosa Beach City Council on Tuesday heard that it could face a legal challenge if it places a tax measure before voters to get more money to the cash-strapped public schools. In other matters, the council agreed to place more than 200 no-smoking signs around Hermosa to herald one of the most aggressive smoking bans […]
Suspicious object prompts Hermosa Beach Strand evacuations
More than a dozen Strand homes were evacuated and the county bomb squad was called Sunday afternoon after an object that looked like a possible bomb washed up on the north Hermosa Beach sand. The bomb squad blew up the object, which turned out to be an armored coconut that might have been used as […]