THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2006
Volume 5, Issue 94
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Samohi mourns one of its own
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SAMOHI — The mood on campus here was somber Wednesday as students and school staff mourned the loss of 15-year-old Eduardo Lopez, who was fatally shot Tuesday night. Lopez, a member of both the football and baseball teams at Santa Monica High School, was standing outside of the Sunset Plaza Liquor
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
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EDUARDO LOPEZ
affiliation, according to police. Counselors were available throughout the day at Samohi to help students cope with the death of the popular 10th grader, who lived with his family in the Pico neighborhood, sources said. Students were seemingly in shock on Wednesday, many seen crying before and after school. A
& Jr. Market with two friends shortly after 9 p.m. Witnesses said a male Hispanic, wearing a dark-colored hooded sweatshirt and a bandana over his face, approached the group and yelled a Los Angelesbased Hispanic gang name several times, police said. He then fired several times at the three boys, striking Lopez in the upper torso, police said. Lopez had no documented gang
See SAMOHI MURDER, page 11
Parking plan leaves both sides idling
Stamp of approval
■ Australia’s Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, announced in December that terrorist suspects being held under house arrest would routinely be sent to anger management classes, to help them address their alienation. ■ In December, a 75-unit apartment house opened in Seattle, funded by grants from the local, state and federal governments, as free housing for what the city considers its most incorrigible drunks, on the theory that keeping an eye on them would be less costly than leaving them free to cause mischief and overuse emergency rooms.
BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
of a report calling for more educational programs for Hispanics, who are expected to increase to nearly one-fourth of the country’s population in coming years. “Failure to close Hispanics’ education and language gap risks
CITY HALL — In attempts to appease both residents and business owners at odds over a dearth of parking, the City Council seems to have satisfied no one. The council voted Tuesday to approve a pilot preferential parking program for employees, allowing 20 permits to be issued for one year to businesses located near 10th Street and Pico Boulevard. Employees in the area report having trouble finding places to park legally because the neighborhoods there are part of a preferential parking zone, meaning only residents with special placards are allowed to park there during the week. Residents opposed to the pilot program said the council’s decision is the first step towards eradicating benefits reaped from creating preferential parking zones, raising fears that residents will have to park blocks away from their homes and walk with children or groceries in hand. Business owners who have been pleading with the council for years for more parking for their employees said they were glad City Hall is moving forward with a pilot program, but are disheartened that the council did not approve of an expanded program that would have included more streets. “I thought it was gutless,” said Charles Donaldson, a resident and
See HISPANICS, page 12
See PARKING, page 10
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 61st day of 2006. There are 304 days left in the year. On March 2, 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Humanitarianism needs no apology. ... Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.”
RALPH BARTON PERRY
INDEX Horoscopes Rest up tonight, Taurus
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Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 57°
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Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Monsignor Lloyd Torgerson bids adieu to ash-stamped parishioners and students at Saint Monica’s Church on Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent in the Catholic religion.
Opinion Tweens’ time has come
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State Calling its bluff
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Business
U.S. proves hazardous to Hispanics’health BY RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
Ready for the long haul
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Local Release the hounds
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Comics Strips tease
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Classifieds Your place or mine?
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Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Millions of Hispanics come to America looking for jobs and educations, but remaining here seems to be bad for their health. The longer Hispanics are here,
the more likely they are to become obese, to develop diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. And Hispanics born here have even higher rates of those illnesses, a new government report shows. The analysis of immigrants’ health by the federal Centers for Disease Control comes on the heels
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