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Visit us online at smdp.com FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2006 Volume 5, Issue 149 Santa Monica Daily Press MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE III ENTERTAINMENT P10 A newspaper with issues DAILY LOTTERY 7 11 22 27 31 Meganumber: 33 Jackpot: $54M 2 9 11 27 28 Message in a bottleneck Meganumber: 27 Jackpot: $22M 16 22 26 31 35 Cinco de Mayo Clinic Post office claims MIDDAY: 6 5 5 EVENING: 7 2 0 glitches are gone; 1st: 02 Lucky Star 2nd: 05 California Classic 3rd: 09 Winning Spirit complaints persist RACE TIME: 1:42.60 BY KEVIN HERRERA Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the winning number information, mistakes can occur. In the event of any discrepancies, California State laws and California Lottery regulations will prevail. Complete game infor- Daily Press Staff Writer mation and prize claiming instructions are available at California Lottery retail- ers. Visit the California State Lottery web site: http://www.calottery.com SUNSET PARK — Despite assur- NEWS OF THE WEIRD ances from U.S. postal officials that BY CHUCK SHEPARD delays in mail deliveries to pockets of Santa Monica and West Los In Savannah, Ga., in March, police Angeles have been cut dramatically picked up Carlos Little, wandering around a housing complex with a head in recent months, residents here say injury, which he said was from a street they are still not receiving impor- robbery, but they later learned from a tant pieces of mail, such as pay- witness that Little and another man had fought over who was the better- checks, applications for American "endowed” (and that, in the show- citizenship, gas bills, even an down, Little proved littler). And in Easter card from grandma. 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