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Arrested recently and awaiting trial for murder: Bruce Wayne Potts, 34 (DeSoto, Texas, February); Oral Wayne Nobles, 71 (arrested in Kingman, Ariz., on a Massachusetts warrant, April); Ronald Wayne Spencer Jr., 19 (Richardson, Texas, April). Arrested and suspected of murder: Darrell Wayne Lewis, 32 (Tempe, Ariz., March). Sentenced for murder: David Wayne Hickman (Dallas, May); Anthony Wayne Welch, 27 (Viera, Fla., March). Committed suicide while serving life in prison for murder: John Wayne Glover, 72 (Sydney, Australia, September 2005).
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STREET SMARTS Caseworker Suzie
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de la Rosa (left) and her client, Donna Mendez, reminisce about their first encounter nearly two years ago. Mendez, 50, was living on the streets for 25 years before de la Rosa helped Mendez find an apartment under the city’s Chronic Homeless Program.
COLORADO AVENUE — After spending more than half her life sleeping on concrete and carrying all of her possessions every step she took, Donna Mendez realized that, at her age, it was too difficult to continue liv-
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ing on the streets of Santa Monica. In her late 40s, and sober for the first time in decades, Mendez no longer wanted to deal with the daily routine of packing up her three buggies filled with belongings and move them from one corner of the city to the next in efforts to avoid police or predators hunting for their next vic-
BY MICHAEL J. TITTINGER Daily Press Staff Writer
Today is the 161st day of 2006. There are 204 days left in the year.
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State Gold at the end of Rainbow
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Photo courtesy Margaret Rose Roberts, 62, has been missing since leaving her Sunset Park home on May 21. She was wearing the clothes in which she is pictured.
Husband’s search for wife continues BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON Daily Press Staff Writer
Q-Line Matters for the mall
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Commentary Policeman weighs in on pot
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National Marketing the environment
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International Al-Zarqawi saw troops
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MOVIETIMES ‘Inconvenient’ showtimes
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SUNSET PARK — It was a night just like any other night. Rejelio Muñoz went to bed with his wife and expected to wake up with her. But when he awoke on the morning of May 21, she was gone and hasn’t been seen since. When Margaret Rose Roberts, 62, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, didn’t return home after three hours, Muñoz called the police and filed a missing person’s report.
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Tenants file suit to stave off evictions
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In 1801, the north African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.
tim — preferably an older, vulnerable woman like Mendez. For 25 years, alcohol clouded her judgment and dulled the pain, enabling her to survive on the streets. Without it, the harsh realities of homelessness and aging hit hard.
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Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Abby Sher paints the sidewalk along Main Street on Friday as a symbolic gesture for peace. Sher plans to spend one hour six days a week in silence while painting a red line down the middle of sidewalks throughout Santa Monica. According to Sher, the paint symbolizes blood dripping from an IV, which she believes depicts the fallen soldiers of the war in Iraq.
Al-Qaida needs ‘terror celeb’ By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With the demise of charismatic terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida will be looking for a new sales approach in its fundraising campaigns. Al-Zarqawi had become a key part of al-Qaida’s marketing: He was a terror operator who stole headlines
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VENICE — In case there was any doubt as to whether the 50 or so remaining tenants being evicted from Lincoln Place Apartments planned to go quietly into the night, a group of united residents filed suit this week against both the property owners and city of Los Angeles in efforts to stay put. On Thursday, the Lincoln Place Tenants Association (LPTA) took their case to Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles, charging the buildings’ owners with attempting to circumvent earlier agreements made with the city and tenants regarding the scale of the complex redevelopment project, and City Hall with failing to enforce those agreed upon terms. According to LPTA president Sheila Bernard, 80 units have already been evicted, 58 of which were locked out by the Sheriff ’s Department on Dec. 6, 2005. The remaining tenants of Lincoln Place — a garden court complex on Elkgrove Avenue constructed between 1949 and 1951 — are considered either elderly or disabled, given a year to
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