TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2003
Volume 3, Issue 11
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Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD by Chuck Shepard
News of the Weird reported in December that Inga Kosak had won the first World Extreme Ironing Championship in Munich in September, based on running a course through several stations (e.g., up in trees, in the middle of streams) and ironing a designated garment. An October Wall Street Journal story shows the "sport" as growing in prominence. South African Anton Van De Venter, 27, broke the high-altitude record in August by ironing his national flag at the 20,000-foot summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, while nude, in freezing temperatures (quote: "I came, I saw, I pressed a crease"), and British diver Ian Mitchell sawed through ice in Wisconsin in March and submitted photos of himself in a wet suit "ironing" (with a Black & Decker Quick 'n' Easy) a shirt that was braced against the underside of the ice.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “This is the true voice of the gutter”
Market crash probe nears completion BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON Daily Press Staff Writer
POLICE DEPT. — After more than four months of investigating, authorities expect to soon complete their report on the farmers’ market tragedy that left 10 dead and 80 injured when an elderly man sped through a crowded downtown street. Officials from the California Highway Patrol and Santa Monica Police Department met last week. Investigators from CHP briefed SMPD Chief James T. Butts Jr. and detectives on the status of the eagerly anticipated report, which they plan to file next month. See INVESTIGATION, page 4
Suspected murderer busted for firearm Arthur Archuletta back in jail
Horoscopes Work late, Aries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Local Buckle up or pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Opinion Gloria Allred is to blame . . . . . . . .7
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BY CAROLYN SACKARIASON Daily Press Staff Writer
PICO NEIGHBORHOOD — The man suspected of killing a 19year-old Santa Monica man in September has been arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. Arthur Archuletta, 21, was arrested by Santa Monica Police on Nov. 22, after officers found a firearm in the car he was riding in. Archuletta, a convicted felon, was charged with being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm and for a parole violation. He has no bail, SMPD Lt. Frank Fabrega said. Three others also were arrested in a Ford Taurus stopped by police at
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INDEX
See ARREST, page 4
Dump trucks cost $328,000
Daily Press Staff Writer
(Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures which appear on the upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agenda. Consent agenda items are routinely passed by the city council with little or no discussion from elected officials or the public. However, many of the items have been part of public discussion in the past).
People in the News Nothing missing on Blanchette . .20
See CONSENT, page 8
Sniper to be executed . . . . . . . . . .13
Jury awards $1M to mothers of victims
$2 million to be spent on construction items
COUNCIL CHAMBERS — More than $2 million is expected to be spent tonight by the Santa Monica City Council on items relating to construction projects, which are viewed by many residents as necessary evils. The most significant expenditure — $1.77 million — will be used to improve Fourth Street and replace the water main underneath it. The work will be done simultaneously.
National
There’s nothing left but a bulldozer and dirt in the middle of the Santa Monica Courthouse courtyard. Three modular civil courtrooms were razed to make way for an 11,933-squarefoot building. The modular courtrooms, temporarily built for overflow cases more than a decade ago, are being replaced. The project is expected to cost $4.5 million and take two years to complete.
Defendant drove into Q’s Billiards in May of 2000, killing two, injuring others
By Daily Press staff
‘Collectinator’ faces ugly reality . .9
Digging up the dirt
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See JURY, page 5
SM COURTHOUSE — Jurors here awarded $1 million Monday to the mothers of two men killed when an out-of-control driver smashed into a popular bar on Wilshire Boulevard. The jury of seven men and five women deliberated only about an hour before reaching the verdict, which granted $500,000 each to the mothers of Noah Baum, 34, and David Roos, 26. Defendant Eric Red, a 42-yearold movie director, reportedly rear-ended another car before smashing into Q’s Billiard Club and Restaurant at 11835 Wilshire Blvd. in May of 2000. Earlier this year, Red was found liable by a
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Texas court for the crash, which caused several other serious injuries. His attorney, John Doherty, said Red will appeal the verdict.
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Lawyer attempts to stifle media By Daily Press staff
Nearly 50 copies of the Santa Monica Daily Press were removed Monday from a newsstand in front of the local courthouse because it contained an article about a trial happening inside. Although no one involved in the case claimed responsibility, it appears one of the plaintiff’s attorneys took the papers so jurors wouldn’t see it. See RACK RAID, page 8