Long Beach News

A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department bailiff pleaded guilty today to a misdemeanor lewd act with a 15-year-old girl while her father was hospitalized and sentenced to a year in jail, probation and sex- offender registration.

Compton resident Julian Balfour, while checking out flat-screen TVs at the Downtown Long Beach Wal-Mart on Saturday, said he is not against the sales tax increase Los Angeles County voters approved in November to fund public transportation projects.

Arson investigators have arrested a man on suspicion of setting a fire at the Paradise Gardens apartment complex, the site of a deadly blaze in 2006, authorities said Thursday.

Thursday marked the second day on the stand for a woman who has accused her former boyfriend, and the father of three children, of sexually and physically assaulting her last year.

The city's Department of Health and Human Services could lose another $2.5 million in funding, at least temporarily, when the state begins issuing IOUs today, city officials said.

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said Tuesday it has opened the worlda s largest natural gas truck fueling station, on a site adjacent to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif.

A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to a year in jail for groping a 15-year-old girl whose father was hospitalized.

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Students at 186th Street ElementarySchool in Gardena like to call themselves peacemakers because part of their curriculum focuses on creating safe classrooms, and each year they embark on a peace march spreading their message of love and respect throughout the community.

A 49-year-old Long Beach woman received a rude awakening at 2 a.m. Friday when she was hit in the forehead by a stray bullet that may have been fired more than a mile away.

As new proposals to eliminate the state's $24 billion budget gap emerge, Long Beach city officials are keeping an eye on Sacramento to see just how the city's own sickly budget might be affected.

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Long Beach has rehired a police officer who was fired five years ago after he shot and killed an unarmed man.

A retired Long Beach police officer recounted Monday how she helped tackle a bank robbery suspect nearly twice her weight by putting him in a chokehold following the robbery of a Bank of America branch in a Mission Viejo supermarket.

Tourism has surpassed international trade as Los Angeles County's top industry in a new ranking that reflects the growing effect of hotels, shops and restaurants as job creators in Southern California.

Cameron Diaz has never been a mom, but in her new movie "My Sister's Keeper" she faces a choice no mother would want, which is one reason the actress known mostly for comedic skill stepped into the serious drama.

Sea Launch Co., a Long Beach-based rocket and satellite concern owned by the Boeing Co.

Firefighters were called to the Pike amusement zone late Monday to rescue a couple trapped at the top of a Ferris wheel.

Susan Jacobs and her companion Kingston both like chicken and collards, chilling on the couch and riding in her convertible with the breeze tussling his curly black hair.

As the sun sets over the parking lot of the Long Beach Courthouse, one of the best and busiest session drummers in the industry is standing motionless, a pair of shearing scissors in one hand, a plastic comb in the other, poised over the head of one of his biggest fans.

Police are asking the public's help in finding a man who sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl in an alley a week ago.