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MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013
Volume 12 Issue 229
Santa Monica Daily Press
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THE NOT AGAIN ISSUE
Concerns persist over planned hotels BY AMEERA BUTT Daily Press Staff Writer
COLORADO AVE There are still a handful of concerns from the Planning Commission and a local union on the proposed six-story Hampton Inn & Suites on Colorado Avenue and Courtyard Marriott on Fifth Street
spearheaded by South Carolina-based OTO Development. The Marriott planned for 1554 Fifth Street would include 136 guest rooms, while the Hampton at 501 Colorado Avenue would have 143 rooms. The two properties are directly across the street from each other. During the last Planning Commission
meeting, union and city officials were concerned the proposals are not addressing many of the community benefits associated with their development agreements. Rachel Torres, research analyst with Unite Here Local 11, the hospitality workers' union for the Los Angeles and Orange County region, said her group has issues
with who will ultimately be working at the hotels. “A lot of times hotels will seek people outside of the city to fill jobs that should be entry-level positions and it’s been a disaster for the youth who are wanting to get these SEE HOTELS PAGE 6
Boston jury to hear closing arguments in Bulger trial DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer
mercilessly through the crowd, hitting one person after another as bystanders tried desperately to get out of the way. Saturday’s hit-and-run killed an Italian
BOSTON After listening to nearly eight weeks of testimony, jurors in the racketeering trial of James “Whitey” Bulger are set to hear closing arguments from prosecutors and defense attorneys as each side lays out its view of the case. Closing arguments in the nearly twomonth trial are scheduled Monday in U.S. District Court, where jurors have heard sometimes gruesome testimony about 19 killings in which Bulger is accused of participating and numerous extortions, money laundering schemes and the hoarding of guns. Bulger, 83, is accused of committing a litany of crimes while leading the Winter Hill Gang in the 1970s and ‘80s. He fled Boston in 1994 ahead of an indictment and was one of the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives until he was captured with his longtime girlfriend in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011. Judge Denise Casper has granted each side up to three hours and 15 minutes for its closing argument, but on Friday, she urged the lawyers to consider the jury’s ability to stay focused for such a long time. Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Wyshak, who has pursued the case against Bulger for
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THE SCENE: Los Angeles Fire Department personnel survey the aftermath of an incident that left one tourist dead in Venice on Saturday.
Hit-and-run driver kills tourist in Venice TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press
VENICE The driver parked outside a hotel and surveyed the leisurely summer scene at the Venice Beach boardwalk: Hundreds of
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people were sitting at cafes, walking along the seashore or shopping at vendors selling jewelry or art. Then, according to surveillance video, the man got into a large black car, steered around a vehicle barrier and accelerated
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