Law

by Kevin Cody [Editor’s Note: Attorney and long time Hermosa Beach resident Robert E. Courtney passed away Sunday, Dec. 1 at age 89. In the following 2007 interview, Coutney talked about the changes in the practice of law over his then four decade long career.] The defendant had been convicted of rape and murder. The […]

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 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 […]

Art + Technology = Magic! Jonmar’s art embraces all media “Pierce the Veil” has been billed as a transdimensional art exhibit, and at last Saturday’s opening at Resin in Hermosa Beach this proved to be no exaggeration. Jonmar (John Marr) has also been referred to as a modern-day Renaissance man, and this, too, seems entirely […]