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MONDAY, JULY 10, 2006
Volume 5, Issue 205
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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Suspect in court for ’02 murder
As the Romans do
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON
SHEPARD
Daily Press Staff Writer
Ron “King Suki” King won the U.S. checkers championship in June in Medina, Ohio, claiming the $6,000 first prize by emerging from a field of 41 competitors whose intensity generally rivals that of more popular and complex games. King, the world “free style” champion, is known as the Muhammad Ali of checkers for trashtalking his opponents. Also competing was another world champion (in a form of checkers in which the first three moves are always at random), Alex “The Mad Russian” Moiseyev, who assured an Agence France-Presse reporter that, as in chess, the top players have to think 10 moves ahead.
On July 8, 1776, Colonel John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Philadelphia.
BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
AMERICAN ESSAYIST, POET AND PHILOSOPHER
INDEX Horoscopes 2
Surf Report 3
Opinion Digging into the sand
Carolyn Sackariason/Daily Press
NO OFFICE SPACE: Patrons wait outside a busy Father’s Office on Saturday.
COMMUNITYPROFILES
Trying tough love each day
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Sports Dodger blues
BY KEVIN HERRERA
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Daily Press Staff Writer
National Leaning on the taco
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MOVIETIMES Trying ‘Prada’?
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Comics Strips tease
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
A W E E K LY S E R I E S T H AT A P P E A R S E A C H M O N D AY A N D D E LV E S I N T O T H E L I V E S O F P E O P L E W H O L I V E , W O R K A N D P L AY I N S A N TA M O N I C A .
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Local Be in the ‘Know’
Shooting at park
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Commentary Itsy, bitsy ways to benefit
See PALEOLOGUS, page 9
Seeking more Office space
Today is the 189th day of 2006. There are 176 days left in the year.
Water temperature: 66°
See FATHER’S OFFICE, page 6
Alejandro Cesar Cantarero II/Daily Press Italian soccer fans painted the town red, white and green on Sunday afternoon following Italy’s victory in the World Cup.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Indulge tonight, Gem
MONTANA AVENUE — The quest for the city’s best burger may leave some Father’s Office fans with a bad taste in their mouth. That’s because lovers of the Santa Monica fixture’s mouth-watering burgers — complete with smoked applewood bacon compote and blue cheese — now must stand in line before entering the often overcrowd-
DOWNTOWN LA — Jury selection will begin on Wednesday in what is expected to be a highly-publicized capital murder trial against the man accused of raping and killing a Santa Monica woman more than three years ago. Victor Paleologus, 44, has been charged with killing Kristine Johnson, 21, on Feb. 15, 2002. Johnson was found dead two weeks later. Her autopsy showed that she was sexual- PALEOLOGUS ly assaulted and died of strangulation, as well as blunt force trauma and other contusions. Paleologus faces the death penalty if convicted. The trial, which is expected to last four to five weeks in downtown Los Angeles, will include close to 100 witnesses. A room full of potential jurors gathered at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Friday, filling out ques-
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JUDGE BARNARD J. KAMINS
AIRPORT COURTHOUSE — She walked into the courtroom dressed in a wrinkled jail jumpsuit, looking pale from the fear of the unknown. Her greasy auburn hair was pulled over one shoulder, revealing brown eyes that looked heavy from a lack of
sleep. “What’s going to happen to me?” the 20 year-old methamphetamine addict desperately asked her attorney, as Judge Barnard J. Kamins informed her that she would have to spend another two days in jail for drug possession. She had hoped to
VIRGINIA AVE. PARK — A suspected teenaged gang member shot another juvenile here Friday night, leaving the victim with non-life threatening wounds. On July 7, at 8:45 p.m., a Santa Monica Police Officer was flagged down regarding a shooting. Reportedly, the incident occurred at the park, on the 2200 block of Virginia Avenue.
See PROFILES, page 8
See SHOOTING, page 9
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