WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006
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Volume 5 Issue 292
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
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SM AIRPORT — A collapsible form of concrete that prevented the private jet of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez from rolling off a Burbank runway last week may be installed here to protect nearby resi-
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Alfred Thomas Steven, 69, was arrested in the La Purisma Mission park in Lompoc, Calif., in September, and cited for trespassing and animal cruelty for attempting to satisfy himself sexually with a horse. According to police, Steven apparently had anointed himself with olive oil and coated his nude body in feed grain or oats, and then lay down so that the horse would nibble and lick him. Deputies said he told them that it was a longtime fantasy.
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 291st day of 2006. There are 74 days left in the year. Dr. James D. Watson of the U.S., and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins of Britain, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA. The United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest, and the rarest.”
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development sits at 15th and Broadway.
SM meets its affordable housing quota BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE — While the production of affordable housing here fell last year to one of the lowest levels on record, City Hall has developed policies that, over the long haul, have increased the number of these units to above and beyond what is required by law. From 1994 to 2005, 769 affordable units have been built within Santa Monica’s city limits. That represents 37 percent of the total 2,089 units constructed in that period, according to a report prepared by city staff that looks at the success of City Hall’s Affordable Housing Production Program. See HOUSING, page 10
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National Pumped-up investigation
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DOWNTOWN, LA — A preliminary hearing still has not been scheduled in the case of the so-called “Black Widows” — a pair of elderly women accused of murdering two homeless men in order to cash in on their life insurance policies.
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Comics You’ll laugh, you’ll cry
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
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safety measures to prevent runway overruns.
Deliberations in Weller case continue BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
DOWNTOWN, LA — Determining the fate of George Russell Weller, the 89year-old man who wreaked havoc when he drove his car into a crowded Farmers’ Market in 2003, has
proven a tall task for his criminal trial jury, with indications that a verdict may not be issued this week. Jurors plan to recess on Thursday if they are unable to reach a decision on the Weller case by the end of today, said Court Clerk Donna Peale. Friday would mark two weeks since
the case wrapped and was put in the jury’s hands. “There is a rumor that they are going to need Thursday off,” Peale said on Tuesday. Defense Attorney Mark Overland See WELLER, page 7
‘Black Widows’ await a hearing date
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CLEARED FOR LANDING: A plane approaches the runway at Santa Monica Airport, where officials are considering new
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Real Estate Industrial demands
See SM AIRPORT, page 8
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State California in brief
collapse under the weight of a wayward aircraft as large as a Boeing 737 traveling as fast as 50 knots. Also under consideration for the airport is the creation of safety areas at the ends of runways to provide pilots with additional space to slow
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dents from runway overruns. Bob Trimborn, acting manager of the Santa Monica Airport, said he is involved in direct talks with officials from the Federal Aviation Administration about EMAS, or Engineered Materials Arresting System — a stretch of pavement injected with air bubbles designed to
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The defendants — Helen Golay, 75, of Santa Monica, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 73, currently of Hollywood and originally from Hungary — are scheduled to appear in Los Angeles Superior County Court on Nov. 2 in a third attempt to schedule a preliminary hearing, said Roger Jon Diamond, Golay’s defense attorney. The women are each charged VONS
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with two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder for financial gain in connection to the deaths of the two homeless men. In the past two months, both Golay and Rutterschmidt have pleaded not guilty to the charges. At the time she was charged, Golay owned three Santa Monica apartment buildings, including her residence at
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2817 Third St. near Ocean Park. A preliminary hearing for the women was expected to be schedSee BLACK WIDOWS, page 6
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