A man was given counterfeit money in exchange for his iPhone, which he listed for sale on Craigslist, around 7:30 p.m. on Mar. 5 on the 400 block of Sepulveda Boulevard, according to police reports.
The Skechers Foundation presented checks totaling $1.4 million from its October Pier to Pier Friendship Walk to the nonprofit Friendship Foundation (formerly the Friendship Circle) and local education foundations at an event on Mar. 10 at the Shade Hotel.
Where others see junk, Jimmy Descant sees rocketships. Descant saw his first rocketship 20 years ago at a flea market in his hometown of New Orleans in the canister of a vintage Kenmore vacuum cleaner.
