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Articles from the November 9, 2018 edition


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  • San Quentin Investigating Two Apparent Suicides of Death Row Inmates

    Observer Staff|Nov 9, 2018
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    SAN QUENTIN – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the deaths of two condemned inmates that occurred over the weekend. On Friday night at about 11:15 p.m., staff found Andrew Urdiales, 54, unresponsive during a security check in the Adjustment Center. Correctional officers performed CPR. Urdiales was pronounced dead at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3. Urdiales was sentenced to death on Oct. 5, 2018, by an Orange County jury for the first-degree m...

  • SMRR City Council to Continue, but Pam O'Conner Finally Loses seat. Local Santa Monica Election Results: Measure TL, SMS, SM all approved.

    Samuel Alioto, Observer Staff Writer|Nov 9, 2018

    Greg Morena will join incumbents Sue Himmelrich and Kevin McKeown on the Santa Monica City Council. Morena, a restaurant owner, won election to be the newcomer on the Council. Pam O'Conner, who has been on the City Council since the Reagan administration, was somehow turned out by voters. She has voted for every large development project ever proposed in Santa Monica, and voters evidently finally understood that. Lori Brown lost her bid to be the only landlord on the Santa Monica Rent Control...

  • SM Landmarks Commission to Consider Historic District for 11th Street Bungalows

    Observer Staff|Nov 9, 2018

    On Monday, November 12th the Santa Monica Landmarks Commission will decide whether to designate a handful of Craftsman-style bungalows on 11th Street to become the City's fourth historic district. Commissioners will meet at 7:00pm in City Council Chambers, 1625 Main Street in Santa Monica. Mid City Neighbors, a neighborhood organization, filed the nomination application which includes bungalows built in the first two decades of the 1900s located on the 1200 block of 11th Street (south of...