THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2005
Volume 4, Issue 264
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Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
Bus-only lane approved on Lincoln Blvd.
DAILY LOTTERY SUPER LOTTO 5 11 12 19 39 Meganumber: 10 Jackpot: $37 Million
Business owners say they’ve been forced on board
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BY RYAN HYATT
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CITY HALL — A new bus-only lane on Lincoln Boulevard is expected to make riding more convenient for users, while local business owners say City Hall failed to notify them of the change and their livelihoods may suffer because of it. The Santa Monica City Council on Tuesday approved a limited bus-only lane at peak traffic hours along a portion of Lincoln Boulevard. While proponents say the move will encourage mass transit use and improve traffic conditions along the city’s busiest commercial corridor, local business owners contend that the result of reduced parking will lead to fewer customers patronizing their estab-
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
CHUCK
SHEPARD
In Kyrgyzstan (and some neighboring Central Asian countries) the pre12th-century tribal custom of “ala kachuu” continues, in which a man reduces the time and expense of courtship by riding up on horseback to a woman, snatching her up, and taking her to his family home, where his relatives (and sometimes hers) prepare her for marriage. According to an April New York Times dispatch from Bishkek, more than half of wives are acquired by ala kachuu (although the term can also mean a more-benign “elopement"), and even some of the snatched wives eventually “consent” to the marriage. Ala kachuu has been illegal for years, but the law against it is rarely enforced.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Buses will soon have their own lane once on-street parking along Lincoln Boulevard is eliminated.
LOCAL
Cycle of giving
Alleged rape reported, gun shots ring out on Pacific Street
Today the 258th day of 2005. There are 107 days left in the year. On Sept. 15, 1789, the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State. In 1821, independence was proclaimed for Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. In 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.)
By Daily Press staff
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Somewhere the Sky touches the Earth, and the name of that place is the End.” AFRICAN SAYING
INDEX
See BUS LANE, page 7
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press Revolution, a fitness center on Montana Avenue, raised more than $7,000 to help hurricane victims on Wednesday night in a special spinning class.
Two Santa Monica men and one juvenile were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping a woman on Monday at an apartment on Pacific Street, near Lincoln Boulevard. Over the weekend, shots were fired in the area but no suspects have been identified. Santa Monica Police Department Lt. Frank Fabrega said the incidents weren’t related. The rape suspects have been identified as Louis Hernandez,
23, of Santa Monica, Michael Morales, 35, of Santa Monica, and a 17-year-old male, of Los Angeles. They were booked at Santa Monica Jail on various sexual assault charges. Apparently the victim came to the SMPD on Tuesday at 10 p.m., reporting that she had been sexually assaulted the previous day, however police reports don’t reveal at what time the alleged rape occurred. Preliminary information indicated the victim was at a residence located at 724 Pacific St., sources said. The suspects were known to the victim by name, police said. See CRIME, page 6
Horoscopes Happy at home, Scorpio
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Surf Report Water temperature: 64°
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Santa Monica man to be put to rest today An avid cyclist, Scott Bleifer died on Saturday riding the scenic Pacific Coast Highway
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Business
BY ROBERT FATURECHI
Katrina’s impact on investments
Special to the Daily Press
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Comics Laugh it up
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Classifieds Have some class
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Scott Bleifer packs, but last year-old Santa decided to go it
usually cycled in Saturday the 41Monica resident alone — a choice
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he’ll never get a chance to regret. As he rode along Pacific Coast Highway — with cars whizzing by on one side — Bleifer, a man those who knew him describe as likable to everyone he met, came across another sole cyclist,
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