LONG BEACH (CBSLA) — City officials say they will begin raking the sand several times a day after a junior lifeguard stepped on a hypodermic needle in Long Beach. The teenage lifeguard stepped on the needle on June 26, in the area of Ocean Boulevard and 55th Place, according to LBReport.com. The city told the site it has increased raking the sand since then to collect debris. Officials also say they plan to speak to the homeless that regularly camp out on the beach, because they believe that’s where some of the needles may have come from. Extra beach patrols may also be added.
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LAGUNA BEACH (CBSLA) — An aspiring model and college student found out the hard way that swimming with sharks is not a good career move. Katarina Zarutskie, 19, got the scare of her life when the nursing student was bitten by a nurse shark. Her nursing studies came in handy when she received the nasty bite. Zarutskie — a Laguna Beach resident — was on vacation with her boyfriend and his family in the Bahamas and looking for the perfect Instagram shot (all photos in this story are from her Instagram account.) Her boyfriend was snapping pictures when the incident took place. She was swimming on Stanley Key Island, known for it’s crystal clear water and normally docile nurse sharks. (A sign posted does warn that nurse sharks can bite.) The shark grabbed her and took her under the water. “It was a very scary experience,” she recalls. The aspiring model was under only about eight seconds but it was terrifying nonetheless. After a struggle, she was able to free herself but left with a nasty bite mark and gash on her arm. Zarutskie hopes her modeling career will continue and she has not ruled out posing with sharks again.
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Once Bitten! Aspiring Model Finds Swimming With Sharks Not A Good Career Move
SANTA BARBARA (CBSLA) – A 73-year-old woman was rescued after getting stuck in sand on a beach near Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara Tuesday morning. Firefighters rescue the victim. (Santa Barbara City Fire Department) The victim was discovered just before 8 a.m. waist-deep in sand at the mouth of Mission Creek, near Garden Street and Cabrillo Boulevard, the Santa Barbara City Fire Department reports. The woman had gotten stuck due to a quicksand effect created when Hurricane Fabio pushed water into the river mouth. Firefighters responded and used a ladder to rescue the woman. She was not seriously hurt and did not require transport to a hospital, the fire department said. Firefighters then filled the hole with shovels.
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By Giorgio Panetta CBS2 Chief Meteorologist/Weather Producer Today is our little hiccup of the week. There is a chance for showers and thunderstorms later this afternoon/evening, following the cold front passage. However the cold front is on a mission and rolls through quickly. Clearing will occur by late tonight or early tomorrow morning. CBS2 The rain won’t take away from the heat today as we will continue on the warming trend. We started out at balmy 70 degree temps and will get up to low 90s. It will be more humid today, however it won’t be oppressive. The humidity will start to come down a bit tomorrow but a trace may stick around throughout the week. CBS2 Chris is still churning out in the Atlantic so rip current risk will stay moderate to high throughout the week. Be safe if visiting the beach!
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By Giorgio Panetta CBS2 Chief Meteorologist/Weather Producer Today is our little hiccup of the week. There is a chance for showers and thunderstorms later this afternoon/evening, following the cold front passage. However the cold front is on a mission and rolls through quickly. Clearing will occur by late tonight or early tomorrow morning. CBS2 The rain won’t take away from the heat today as we will continue on the warming trend. We started out at balmy 70 degree temps and will get up to low 90s. It will be more humid today, however it won’t be oppressive. The humidity will start to come down a bit tomorrow but a trace may stick around throughout the week. CBS2 Chris is still churning out in the Atlantic so rip current risk will stay moderate to high throughout the week. Be safe if visiting the beach!
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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Starbucks announced Monday it would stop offering plastic straws from all of its stores by 2020, becoming the largest food and beverage company to do so as calls to cut waste globally grow louder. Viral videos — including one depicting researchers extracting a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s bleeding nostril — is prompting some companies and municipalities to find ocean-friendlier alternatives. A week after its hometown banned plastic drinking straws and utensils , the Seattle company said Monday that within two years, it will be using straws made from biodegradable materials like paper and specially designed lids. The company already offers alternative straws in Seattle. In Southern California, beach cities like Malibu and Manhattan Beach have already banned straws and plastic utensils, while Sea World further south has followed suit. Similar proposals are being considered in places like New York and San Francisco. We're removing plastic straws in our stores globally by 2020—reducing more than 1 billion plastic straws per year from our stores. — Starbucks Coffee (@Starbucks) July 9, 2018 To replace the straws, Starbucks also debuted images of its new strawless lids, which will begin to appear in Seattle and Vancouver locations this fall, with phased rollouts within the U.S. and Canada to follow next year. A global rollout of the strawless lids will follow, beginning in Europe where the will be used in select stores in France and the Netherlands, as well as in the United Kingdom. The lid that is replacing the straws is also plastic, but is also recyclable. The strawless lids will become the standard for all of Starbucks’ iced drinks except the Frappuccino, which the company says will be served with a straw made from paper or a compostable plastic manufactured from fermented plastic starch. Straws made of alternative materials will still be available to customers on request. The issue is coming up in company boardrooms, though Starbucks is taking the lead among large food chains. McDonald’s shareholders voted down a proposal requesting a report on plastic straws in May, although it recently said it would switch to paper straws in the United Kingdom and Ireland by next year, and test alternatives to plastic straws in some U.S. locations. In May, Alaska Airlines said travelers on its flights would be served drinks with compostable versions of stir straws and citrus picks: white birch for coffee and bamboo for citrus sticks. The Seattle-based carrier, which said it handed out 22 million stir straws and citrus picks last year, also said it would have non-plastic, marine-friendly drinking straws for travelers that request them. While plastic drinking straws have become one of the more high-profile issues environmentally, they make up only about 4 percent of the plastic trash by number of pieces, and far less by weight. Straws add up to about 2,000 tons of the nearly 9 million tons of plastic waste that ends up in the water each year. © 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Newport Beach Sues ‘Church Of The Holy Grail’ Alleging It’s Operating As ‘Unlawful’ Pot Dispensary
NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA) — The city of Newport Beach has filed suit against a local business, alleging that it was operating as an unlawful marijuana dispensary. In court papers filed late June , the city indicated that it was seeking injunctions and civil penalties among other remedies against the Church of the Holy Grail (“Holy Grail”) located at 2072 Southeast Bristol Street. According to the suit, the Holy Grail has been operating as a facility to “unlawfully sell, serve, store, keep, or give away marijuana in violation of federal, state, and local law.” The city cited municipal code sections that prohibit marijuana dispensaries in the City, as well as zoning ordinances that require licensing. The city further alleged that the defendants had been operating a business without a license or zoning approval in contravention of the municipal code as well as the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, which requires that marijuana-related activities comply with local laws. Cristian L. Peirano, an attorney for the Holy Grail, said in a letter from February that the company’s “use of marijuana is a lawful exercise of religion,” according to the suit. CBS Los Angeles reached out to Peirano Sunday for further comment, but has not yet heard back. But as legal commentator and attorney Lou Shapiro points out, “the issue in the case is religion cannot be used to circumvent municipality laws.” “The government is not restricting people from exercising their religion,” said Shapiro, who is not representing either side in the case. “Rather, they are saying you can practice religion, but it has to be within the confines of the law.” A hearing in this matter has been scheduled for later this month, court records show.
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Newport Beach Sues ‘Church Of The Holy Grail’ Alleging It’s Operating As ‘Unlawful’ Pot Dispensary
Authorities in Florida took R&B star Chris Brown into custody after he finished a show in Palm Beach on Thursday. According to Yahoo News, , he was …
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – The heat wave continued Saturday across the Southland , as thousands of people dealt with power outages amid triple-digit temperatures. The peak of the heat wave came Friday and will continue Saturday with “widespread record-breaking triple-digit heat” expected, the National Weather Service wrote. “The extreme record-breaking heat in combination with single-digit humidities and gusty north winds will continue to bring very critical fire weather conditions across the mountains, Santa Barbara south coast, Santa Clarita Valley, San Fernando Valley and Santa Monica mountains.” The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reported that 34,500 customers were without power as of 8 a.m. Saturday. In Koreatown, a high-rise apartment building for seniors had been without power since Friday night: the 14-story Sheraton Town House Apartments at 639 S. Commonwealth Ave. LADWP Heat Storm Update: As of 8 AM, 14,500 customers restored since Friday as crews work to restore the 34,500 who remain without power. More details: https://t.co/RH9fUNYwbY — LADWP (@LADWP) July 7, 2018 Hundreds of shoppers were forced to leave The Grove shopping mall in the Fairfax District Friday night after an outage knocked out power there. Power has since been restored. Red flag warnings will be in effect until 6 p.m. Saturday in the Los Angeles County mountains, Angeles National Forest, Santa Clarita Valley, Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area and the San Fernando Valley. Winds across the affected areas are expected to blow between 15 to 30 mph, with gusts in some areas reaching 50 mph, combined with single-digit humidity levels and triple-digit temperatures, forecasters said. Also in effect is an excessive heat warning everywhere in Los Angeles County, including the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains; the San Fernando, San Gabriel, Santa Clarita, Pomona and Antelope valleys; Catalina, L.A. County beach cities, metropolitan Los Angeles, the downtown area and the Hollywood Hills. The warning will remain in effect until 9 p.m. Saturday. Highs expected in those areas include the 80s to mid 90s along the coast; the mid 90s to 105 inland; 95 to 107 in the mountains; and 105 to 112 in the valleys. Downtown Los Angeles broke the heat record for a July 6 by reaching 95 degrees — at 10:15 a.m. — surpassing the 1992 record of 94 degrees. Heat records also fell in areas including Long Beach, Van Nuys, Burbank, Woodland Hills, LAX and Sandberg. On Friday, downtown Los Angeles broke the heat record for a July 6 by reaching 95 degrees, breaking the 1992 record of 94 degrees. The downtown area eventually hit 108 degrees, shattering the previous mark. Heat records for the date also fell at LAX, at 92 degrees; Long Beach Airport at 109 degrees; UCLA at 111; Burbank at 114; Van Nuys at 117; and Woodland Hills at 117. The high temperature in Long Beach was a record for July and at UCLA the mercury surpassed the all-time record of 109 set on Sept. 20, 1939. The Van Nuys and Burbank readings were also all-time highs. Sandberg also reached a record high. Government agencies, meanwhile, reminded the public about the availability of cooling centers across the Southland for people who need a break from high temperatures. Los Angeles city officials noted that facilities such as recreation centers, senior centers and museums are available for people hoping to cool off. City libraries are also available as cooling centers during their normal operating hours. The city’s 32 Summer Night Lights locations will be open until 11 p.m. Saturday. Other cities also have announced the availability of cooling centers. Malibu officials said the Michael Landon Center at Malibu Bluffs Park, 24250 Pacific Coast Highway, will be available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Saturday as a cooling center. The Duarte Senior Center at 1610 Huntington Drive will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. through Sunday for people looking to cool down. Carson will have about a dozen park locations available during afternoon hours through Sunday as cooling centers. (©2018 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.)
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The popular R&B singer Chris Brown was arrested yet again right after his show on West Palm Beach, Florida. The 29-year-old rapper was arrested …
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Chris Brown Arrested in Connection With a 2017 Nightclub Dispute
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Singer Chris Brown walked off stage after his concert in Florida and into the hands of waiting sheriff’s deputies, who arrested him on a felony battery charge and booked him into the Palm Beach County Jail. A sheriff’s spokeswoman said the entertainer was released after posting $2,000 bond on the battery charge issued by the Tampa Police Department. No details about the allegations in the arrest warrant were immediately available. The 29-year-old entertainer’s record of violence includes a guilty plea to felony assault for beating up his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 and a 2016 arrest on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. He’s currently in the middle of his Heartbreak On A Full Moon Tour. (© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Singer Chris Brown walked off stage after his concert in Florida and into the hands of waiting sheriff’s deputies, who arrested him on a felony battery charge and booked him into the Palm Beach County Jail. A sheriff’s spokeswoman said the entertainer was released after posting $2,000 bond on the battery charge issued by the Tampa Police Department. No details about the allegations in the arrest warrant were immediately available. The 29-year-old entertainer’s record of violence includes a guilty plea to felony assault for beating up his then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009 and a 2016 arrest on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. He’s currently in the middle of his Heartbreak On A Full Moon Tour. (© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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Police seized the R&B star shortly after he left the stage Thursday night in West Palm Beach. He was booked on a charge of felony battery and …
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Chris Brown, R&B singer, arrested after Florida concert for outstanding warrant
Chris Brown was arrested late July 5, 2018, just moments after he finished a concert at the Coral Sky Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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