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Hometown: Anaheim Hills, Calif.
Bio: Jessica E. Davis is a news reporter and multimedia journalist who has lived in Southern California nearly all her life. She is the type of reporter who likes to go beyond the surface level.
Before coming to Los Angeles County, Jessica launched Palm Desert Patch in the Coachella Valley in 2010, where she reported on environmental issues, crime, entertainment and the impact of the elimination of redevelopment on the city. She also covered the local extension of the Occupy Wall Street movement, camping out with the protesters for several days. She was the only journalist to witness the beginning of a police raid on the encampment, and provided up-to-the minute live coverage. In Malibu, she covered the Malibu Lagoon Restoration Project from start to finish, providing regular updates and behind-the-scenes features. She also covered the Santa Monica shootings, beating traditional media by 15 minutes with the early reports.
Before joining Patch, Jessica worked as a wire service reporter in Southern California, where she wrote about everything from celebrities to crime, especially celebrities committing crimes. She also started up a blog while living in Asia and freelanced photographs of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, which were published in The Christian Science Monitor and CBS.com.
Jessica graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash. with a B.A. in Journalism and History. While at school, she served as news and online editor of The Whitworthian. She also hosted a news radio show.
When she's not working on a story or editing video, Jessica can be found hiking, volunteering, reading a good book or hanging out with her husband.
The 37-year-old man, whose name is being withheld, is accused of driving drunk in the crash that seriously injured another man, who is expected to survive.
The outage was caused by faulty equipment near Pacific Coast Highway and John Tyler Drive in Malibu, according to an Edison spokeswoman.
The man was flying a motorized paraglider when it went down near the Santa Clara River in Piru.
"Both Malibu and the Mentawai Islands are iconic cradles of surfing culture that are faced with the duty of preserving their natural beauty," Malibu Mayor Lou La Monte said.
Malibu city staff recently met with representatives from L.A. County Beaches & Harbors, which manages Zuma Beach and its parking lots.
Santa Claus will be handing out holiday toys to all youngsters at the Point Dume Marine Science Elementary School in Malibu.
After three delays, the Malibu Planning Commission votes to put off the public hearing and will send out new notices when developers of the Trancas Country Market are ready to move forward.
All 10 Civic Center commercial landowners that returned ballots authorized a special tax to fund the design of the first phase of the Civic Center Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The project will relocate the eight-inch diameter gas main from the inland side to the beach side of PCH near Escondido Creek.
The driver of one of two vehicles involved in the crash was thrown onto the roadway in a crash on Kanan Road near Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Agoura Hills.
The cell phone service provider has applied to replace nine four-foot tall panel antennas with 12 six-foot tall panel antennas on the top of an office building in order to provide LTE service to parts of western Calabasas.
The Malibu group has decided to eliminate sand from offshore Manhattan Beach for possible use in their Broad Beach restoration project.
All of the proceeds will be used for Malibu High School sport teams and programs.
The performers will include the Zuma Youth Orchestra, Senior Choir, Children's Ballet, "Hoofers" Adult Tap, and the Malibu High School Chamber Singers.
Donations are still being accepted for the fundraising effort, which is being spearheaded by Lavinia Errico of Malibu.
The gifts should be new, unwrapped and for children between 1 to 16 years of age.
The gifts should be new and unwrapped and for children between 1 to 16 years of age.
Two people are taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
Residents now have time to give more input on the project, which calls for sand to be imported from a myriad of sites up and down the California coastline in order to protect homes along Broad Beach in Malibu.
Organizers say for more than a decade members of the Malibu community have cooked up and served food on Thanksgiving Day to those less fortunate.
