Law & Legal Notices

by Garth Meyer In a matter of “ordinance housekeeping” as described by Redondo Beach City Manager Mike Witzansky, the city council Tuesday voted 5-0 to move forward to establish a faster permit process to install electric vehicle charging stations.  The action is the latest step for a 2015 state law that requires local jurisdictions to […]

Candidates set for coming city elections The official list is in for candidates in the March 2025 city elections. For mayor, six people vie for the seat, including incumbent Jim Light (appointed last year after the death of Mayor Bill Brand), City Councilman Nils Nehrenheim, former councilman Jeff Ginsberg; Joan Irvine, founder of Keep the […]

by Kevin Cody Former Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce CEO Jessica Accamando and her spouse, Ashley Tull, have been ordered by the Los Angeles County Superior Court to pay attorneys’ fees to Hermosa Beach residents Kent Allen and Matt McCool, against whom Accamando and Tull filed a libel suit last May.  Allen’s attorney, Harry Safarian, […]

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has charged a South Bay man with murder and 18 counts of sexual assault and drug offenses regarding nine women, one of whom died at the alleged perpetrator’s Redondo Beach residence in 2020. All of the charges are felonies. If convicted, DiGiorgio’s sentence could be life in prison.  According […]

by Garth Meyer A man who said he and his girlfriend were assaulted by teenage e-bikers in front of Captain Kidd’s on Harbor Drive after the couple left BeachLife Festival May 3 has been charged with assaulting the e-bikers. The man was initially charged with public intoxication, on the night of the incident. An arraignment […]

by Garth Meyer The City of Redondo Beach is prepared to file suit against Metro if it chooses to run its light rail extension down a right-of-way between houses in North Redondo and Lawndale. The Redondo Beach city council voted 4-0 Tuesday night to hire John McLendon of Liebold McClendon & Mann (Laguna Hills), a […]

by Garth Meyer Los Angeles Superior Court delivered a victory for the City of Redondo Beach Feb. 8, ruling against AES site co-owner Leo Pustilnikov, who sought to use the “builder’s remedy” to obtain a court order for the city to approve his mixed-use project at the former S.E.A. Lab site on Harbor Drive.  Judge […]

by Elka Worner Former O.J. Simpson prosecutor Christopher Darden faced the jury in a largely empty Torrance courtroom to give his opening statements in a murder trial last month. Unlike his opening statements in the “Trial of the Century,” viewed by millions of people around the world, there were no television cameras, legions of reporters […]

by Garth Meyer A state-required Redondo Beach housing plan took effect in time to stop a proposal by AES site owners to develop the property by “Builder’s Remedy,” L.A. County Superior Court ruled last week.   Judge Ronald Frank found in favor of the City of Redondo Beach, over AES co-owner Leo Pustilnikov, who contended in […]

“Paris Police 1905” is the sequel to “Paris Police 1900” and almost as juicy. Like the original series, many of the characters are based on real people. Louis Lépine, head of the Paris police, was tasked with bringing order to the streets, excising corruption from the ranks and bringing the police into the twentieth century […]

by Kevin Cody A four-year-old boy abducted from his grandfather’s Hawthorne home Tuesday evening was located by a Los Angeles County Lifeguard about 9 a.m. Wednesday morning on the beach, at Second Street in Hermosa Beach. Lifeguard Battalion Chief AJ Lester said lifeguards had received a bulletin from Hawthorne Police asking local public safety agencies […]

by Kevin Cody A four-year-old boy abducted from his grandfather’s Hawthorne home Tuesday evening was located by a Los Angeles County Lifeguard about 9 a.m. Wednesday morning on the beach, at Second Street in Hermosa Beach. Lifeguard Battalion Chief AJ Lester said lifeguards had received a bulletin from Hawthorne Police asking local public safety agencies […]