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PCH — Residents here Friday filed a lawsuit against City Hall in an effort to block the construction of a public beach club at the old Marion Davies Estate.
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New Scientist magazine reported in May that the Pentagon’s cutting-edge research agency, DARPA, was considering a human-launching device that works like a cannon, to blast special-forces troops (and maybe firefighters and police officers) at just the right trajectory so that they land on hard-to-reach locations, such as rooftops.
“Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark.”
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Snow & Surf Report Water temperature: 67°
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Opinion On the right track?
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Crime Watch Feelings weren’t mutual
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State Smoke ’em if you got ’em
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National Oregon picks up policy
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Travel Eating up Carmel
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MOVIETIMES ‘Break-Up’ is easy to do
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MARKET MATTERS: Randy Hattaway, 26, a recent graduate of the California Art Institute-Los Angeles, prepares food at the Farmer’s Market on Wednesday. A judge has ruled that the Bayside District and Step Up On Second must stand trial in a civil lawsuit stemming from the Farmers’ Market crash of 2003.
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LOS ANGELES — Venice Civil Rights attorney Stephen G. Yagman, an outspoken critic of the legal system and police brutality, turned himself in to authorities on Friday morning after having been indicted on tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud and 17 counts of money laundering.
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SM COURTHOUSE — A Superior Court judge ruled earlier this week that Bayside District Corp. must stand trial in a civil lawsuit involving more than 60 plaintiffs who were either injured or killed when an elderly man drove through a crowded Farmers’ Market nearly three years ago. In her seven-page ruling, Judge Valerie Baker said attorneys for Bayside, a public-private partnership that advises City Hall on issues relating to downtown, failed to present enough evidence to grant a summary judgment removing their client from the lawsuit. Baker also ruled against granting summary judgment for local mental See MARKET CRASH, page 14
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designed to prevent massive development along the beach. The project, which will be funded through a $28 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation, will preserve and restore existing portions of
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to a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. They also charge City Hall with violating Proposition S, which prohibits the construction of food service facilities over 2,000 square feet along the beach. The proposition, which has several provisions, was
Bayside’s motion bounced
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Members of the Palisades Beach Property Owners Association and resident Jonathan Ornstein accuse City Hall of failing to address several potential environmental impacts caused by the redevelopment, while omitting others from an environmental study, according
Lost and found: Inspector spots missing woman Judge rules that Step Up On Second must also stand trial CULVER CITY — It’s been a long journey home for Margaret Rose Roberts, the 62-year-old Sunset Park woman who went missing more than a month ago and prompted her husband to engage in a tireless search of the region, but one with a happy ending thanks to an observant City Hall employee. On Friday, with a June 23 edition of the Santa Monica Daily Press in tow, Santa Monica Building and Safety inspector Shane Peters stopped at the Starbucks at Washington Boulevard and Overland Avenue for his morning brew. Glancing at the front page of the newspaper, he saw a picture of Roberts and the accompanying story detailing her disappearance on May 21. The missing woman looked eerily similar to a woman at the coffee shop, a woman he has seen there repeatedly over the past six weeks. According to Jeri Wingo, president of the city’s Municipal Employees Association, Peters called Roberts’ husband, Rejelio Muñoz, whose number was printed in the Friday edition of the newspaper, and described the woman at the cafe. Later in the day, the couple was reunited for the first time since Roberts, who suffers
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Yagman, who practices law on Ocean Front Walk in Venice Beach, is accused of attempting to conceal more than $100,000 owed in federal income taxes. The indictment, returned under seal by a federal grand jury on June 1, was unsealed on Thursday after the conclusion of a state court jury See YAGMAN, page 15
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