Long Beach News

Second District City Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal envisions a downtown crowded not with cars, but people - pedestrians who arrive by bicycle, bus and, perhaps, even streetcars.

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Police are searching for the gunman who shot and killed one person and wounded two others outside a liquor store in Long Beach.

Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is an undeclared candidate for governor, was in Los Angeles on Friday to announce his office is investigating four people suspected of bilking African-American churches in Southern California and elsewhere.

Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach today announced that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $21 per share and a special cash dividend of $25 per share on the Bank's common stock.

The City's Department of Health and Human Services is sponsoring a free H1N1 flu vaccine clinic Saturday for people who are considered at high risk of contracting the flu virus, officials said.

There are minimal data assessing the relationship between diabetes with gallbladder, biliary and pancreatic cancer.

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Authorities have released the name of a driver who was killed when his big rig veered off Interstate 10 and crashed into a rest stop residence outside Phoenix.

A Los Angeles man was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in the courtyard of a Long Beach apartment complex, police said today.

A half-cent sales tax increase approved by Los Angeles County voters last year is expected to generate about $5 million to $6 million annually in Long Beach to fill potholes, repair sidewalks and jump-start a number of languishing road, parking and streetscape improvements in a city struggling with crushing budget problems.

Volunteers hope to collect more than 8 million shoe box gifts by Thanksgiving. In 2003, children braved a New York blizzard to collect shoe boxes.

A suspect, who accidentally shot himself in the leg during a confrontation with police, was arrested after officers used a stun gun and police dogs to subdue him.

Could this community become a major player in the convergence? It could. A group of entrepreneurs, academics and others gathered the other day to talk about the digital convergence that is reshaping human activities all over the world.

A 40-year-old woman found dead in a car in Long Beach was identified Sunday authorities said.

Thirty years after the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, during which 1.7 million Cambodians were killed, trials of Khmer Rouge officials for their part in the mass murders began last spring.

Assemblyman Tony Mendoza, D-Norwalk, plans to distribute more than 100 turkeys to four area nonprofits on Monday as part of his annual Operation Gobble event.

Ten cheeses will be served with 10 matching wines in Riedel stemware at Saturday's stand-up tasting at the bar from 1 to 4 p.m. For $20, you'll get 10 1 1/2-ounce samples.

A 22-year-old Long Beach woman was jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail Thursday after she allegedly shot an acquaintance the previous night, police said.

The president of Sea Launch says he expects Boeing to drop all or most of its ownership of the satellite-launching business.