Longtime resident and lifelong educator Rachelle Marcus has officially become the first candidate to throw her hat in the ring for one of two upcoming seats on the Beverly Hills Board of Education.
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Beverly Hills police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of an attempted sexual assault early Sunday morning in Beverly Hills.
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A Beverly Hills man charged with immigration fraud was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in prison.
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In a 5-4 vote, the controversial housing densification bill SB827 proposed by Northern California State Senator Scott Wiener has become stalled in the Housing Committee, killing it for this year, but leaving it open for another try in 2019.
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Eugene “Gene” Howard Galen passed away at 84 in his Beverly Hills home on April 16 after a long illness, surrounded by his loving family. A longtime Beverly Hills resident and a respected physician in the community for over 30 years, Gene was beloved by many for his passion and dedication to helping others.
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Taylor Swift received another scare at her Beverly Hills home last weekend.
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By the time the Courier was on its way to the printer last week with a story revealing that Branden Williams was the proponent who submitted 2,966 signatures to repeal the City’s newly enacted Basement Ordinance last Friday, Williams appears to have been in damage control mode.
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Thanks largely to the efforts of El Rodeo Principal Kevin Allen to inspire charity on a daily basis in the lives of the K-8 students he is tasked with educating, giving back is now a daily occurrence in the lives of the school’s youngsters five days a week.
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Is celebrity megamansion developer Mohamed Hadid changing his tune as he tries to fend off several upcoming appeals to his oversized project at 901 Strada Vecchia in Bel Air?
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Jane Seymour received the Companion of Children Award during The Colleagues 30th Annual Spring Luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire. The Colleagues have raised millions for the Children’s Institute to look after vulnerable youngsters who have been harmed by violence, abuse or neglect.
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Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) on Monday honored longtime Beverly Hills optometrist Henry Oster in Sacramento as part of the State Assembly’s 15th annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. Oster and his parents were forced onto a train and sent to the Lodz Ghetto in October of 1941, when he was just 13-years-old. Henry was made to work 12-hour days in the fields and the local cemetery. Henry’s father died of starvation within six months. In 1944, Henry and his mother were deported from the Lodz Ghetto, forced into cattle cars, and transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp. Upon arriving at the extermination facility of Birkenau, Oster was selected for slave labor and his mother was murdered in the gas chambers. He managed to survive three separate selections for the gas chambers.
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Maddie is a 5-year-old, blue-eyed Maltese who is very sweet. She weighs 5 pounds and is in search of her forever home. To learn more about how to take Maddie home, visit www.shelterhopepetshop.org.
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The final PTSA meeting of the 2017-18 school year included a bittersweet celebration that honored PTSA moms with graduating seniors. After upwards of 20 years in the school district, several of these volunteers are graduating out with their last child. The meeting also offered quite the suprise for co-president Jodi Galen - with a lifesize replica of the petite powerhouse volunteer! Pictured (top, from left): PTSA co-president Laurie Okum, Marjaneh Manavi, Jodi Galen (times two!), and Cindy Trost; (bottom, from left): “graduating moms” Rishelle Maman, Dorit Abramov, Doreece Artal, Eddie Rabin, Dagny Dubelko, Dori Kenneally, Fariba Khorshad, Nazy Yadegar, Jodi Galen and Laurie Okum.
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More than 200 BHUSD parents, kids and staff participated in the district’s second “Plugged-In Parents” event on Tuesday evening at Horace Mann to learn about navigating the challenges of screen time in the digital era. Featuring speaker Anya Kamenetz (author of The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media & Real Life), the event was sponsored by PTA Council, Rocco’s Pizza, Virtual Room LA and San Wilshire Printing. To view the entire event, which was filmed by K-BEV, visit: tinyurl.com/BHUSDplugged2. Pictured (from left): Karla Mulholland, Ann-Marie Fine, Alisa Bozin, Anya Kamenetz, Lisa Bieler, Horace Mann Principal Juliet Fine (front), Bahare Yektafar, BHUSD Director of Technology Bernadette Lucas, Romi Azevedo (front), Kimberly Combs and Superintendent Michael Bregy.
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Former first lady Barbara Bush died Tuesday at the age of 92, triggering an outpouring of praise for the matriarch of a Republican family once at the apex of American politics.
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Realtor Branden Williams is still the man behind the signature-gathering effort for a referendum to repeal the Basement Ordinance, despite a purported apology and resignation letter sent to the Courier by Hilton & Hyland only minutes before this paper went to press last week.
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A transient accused of smashing in the car window of actress Jaime King in Beverly Hills – while her 4-year-old son sat inside – is due back in court on April 19 and is facing several criminal counts.
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The Beverly Hills City Council has given the go-ahead to restore the parking meters on South Santa Monica Boulevard, on both sides of the street, after they were removed in 2016 so traffic could be rerouted to accommodate construction on North Santa Monica Boulevard.
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In today’s digital-dependent era, finding a balance between real life and the online world can be a real struggle, particularly for parents.
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Some Beverly Hills residents got quite a fright Monday night when they noticed police officers patrolling their street and a helicopter overhead. Three burglary suspects were later arrested that night.
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