Long Beach News Archives

Long Beach Police investigate a shooting in the 700 block of Ximeno Ave. Next to Wilson High School on October 30, 2009.

A City Council committee overstepped its bounds when it voted Monday night to have the city prosecutor and city attorney draft an ordinance to regulate medical marijuana collectives, City Attorney Bob Shannon said Tuesday.

Even before he walks into the exam room, Dr. Michael Nguyen has up-to-the-minute health information about his Long Beach patients.

Myesha Chaney, right, and The Antioch Church of Long Beach Choir sing in front of a sold out crowd at the Long Beach Arena, for the lunch speakers session at The Women's Conference 2009.

Lisa Niemi called the grief that came with the loss of her husband, Patrick Swazye, a oean animal all of its own.a At the a oeGrief, Healing and Resiliencea panel at Maria Shrivera s Womena s Conference in Long Beach, Calif., on Tuesday afternoon, Lisa explained that despite knowing s Comments No comments yet.

The eight people who contracted flea-borne murine typhus were hospitalized for at least 24 hours, but have recovered, officials say.

Move over, it's Saturday night at Club Bounce and people are bouncing onto the dance floor in a big, big way.These are big, big people, all dressed to the nines and many tipping the scales at 250, maybe 300 pounds.That's because this expansive nightclub a couple blocks from the Pacific Ocean, with its flashing lights, friendly atmosphere and ...

A 2 1/2-mile section of coastline in Long Beach has been closed after about 1,400 gallons of raw sewage spilled into the ocean.

Eight people in Long Beach were recovering Saturday after being hospitalized with a rare form of typhus that's spread by fleas.

During a roundtable discussion this week on transportation, Congresswoman Laura Richardson said jobs are more important than the health care reform issue.

Six weeks after Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at age 57, his widow Lisa Niemi will participate in a roundtable discussion on Grief, Healing and Resilience at the Women's Conference 2009 in Long Beach, California, next Tuesday, Oct.

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A state panel overseeing a landmark initiative to create a network of ocean preserves has postponed a decision on the controversial closure of fishing grounds along the Southern California coastline, including a popular area off the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Homicide detectives are searching for the gunman who shot and killed an 18-year-old man in Long Beach.

Federal prosecutors charged 18 people, most of them Los Angeles residents, in an alleged $25 million Medicare fraud scheme based in the Southland, investigators announced today.

Several dozen tons of donated food, clothing, water, medical supplies and other necessities left Long Beach on Wednesday for the earthquake-devastated Samoan islands, where nearly 200 people have been killed and electricity remains spotty across wide swaths of the tiny island nation.

Authorities say a stolen car crash has left two children critically injured. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says a sport utility vehicle reported stolen in Torrance refused to stop at a sobriety checkpoint in Long Beach at around 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

Twin newborns were dropped off at a fire station in Compton Monday. The babies, a boy and a girl, were surrendered at Fire Station 2 at 1320 E. Palmer St.

A three-car collision in Bellflower left two children critically injured Sunday.

Shawn Gallivan, 22, is accused of striking 53-year-old David King sometime before 3:18 a.m. Saturday and leaving him lying in street at Long Beach Boulevard and East Broadway, Long Beach City police said.

" The Assistance League of Long Beach will hold its annual fundraiser, "Destination...Unknown" holiday boutique, Nov.

Residents may support the secession of two Long Beach neighborhoods, but it could come down to dollars and cents to get out of Los Angeles County.

Pine Street Pier in Long Beach, Calif: Motocross daredevil - For Travis Pastrana's latest stunt, he will be going over the water and not into it.

Hundreds of Carson residents have sued Shell Oil Co., claiming it contaminated a neighborhood with cancer-causing benzene and that at least four residents have died as a result.

California First Lady Maria Shriver speaks at the 2008 Women's Conference at the Long Beach Convention Center on October 22, 2008 in Long Beach, California.

The City Council approved pay freezes for members of six employee associations Tuesday evening, but the council postponed for one week a vote on furloughing most of the city's rank-and-file workers.

Six new contracts that postpone pay raises for city employees will go before the City Council on Tuesday, and the council will also vote on furloughing members of the city's largest union after negotiations stalled last week.

A 22-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department was charged with possessing child pornography, federal authorities confirmed Monday.

A deal to locate a movie studio at the former Boeing 717 site wasn't signed Monday but will be this week, a studio executive said.

Holloway the Band, a local Whittier band, will be performing at the 25th Long Beach Marathon Sunday at Shoreline Village, 419 Shoreline Drive.

A 10,000-gallon sewage spill in South Pasadena that flowed into the Los Angeles River prompted the closure of beaches in Long Beach today.

The city of Long Beach has closed a stretch of beach nearly 2 miles long after 10,000 gallons of raw sewage leaked into the Los Angeles River and flowed downstream to the ocean.

The devil may be in the details for California's ambitious high-speed rail plans now that the public has a chance to see specific alternative plans for $2.19 billion worth of new bridges, tunnels, and right-of-way widening along the existing rail tracks between Los Angeles and Anaheim.

There's a long history of bands being named after cities and states. Chicago for one.

A second attempt by Sen. John McCain to strip funding for Boeing's C-17 Globemaster and close California's last fixed-wing aircraft assembly plant was soundly rejected Wednesday - extending the plant's operation through at least 2012 barring a presidential veto.

Long Beach Fire Chief Dave Ellis said Wednesday he will retire at the end of this year to spend more time with his family and focus on his health.

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Polaris Minerals Corporation today announced that it has secured an option to lease an existing marine aggregate importing terminal in the Port of Long Beach, California, setting the stage for a more cost-effective and quicker entry into the Los Angeles market.

Authorities today were searching for a suspect or suspects who shot metal ball bearings at four police officers as they were investigating an unrelated incident.

Changes to the city charter, a new plan for Douglas Park and a proposal to increase the number of affordable housing units that go to Long Beach residents will all be discussed by the City Council on Tuesday.

After a day's work cleaning one hotel room after another, Maria Valdivia says she's often too fatigued to play with her three children once she gets home.

Three residents of a two story four-plex along Ocean Blvd. at 12th Place awoke Sunday morning to a smoke filled unit...and LBFD says they had to jump from a second story window onto a shed to escape, leaving one female resident injured and two dogs dead in the blaze.

2. No dog shall be outside the orange traffic cones without its owner on a leash.

The Long Beach, California Press-Telegram has this lengthy analysis of Instant Runoff Voting in its October 4 print edition.

Mayor Gordon A. Shanks notified a small area of East Long Beach on Wednesday that the council is willing to talk about annexation to the beach town - if the county border is changed.

This program will provide 1 voucher to the first 200 residents who get their dogs altered at any of the approximatly 10 participating Long Beach Veteterinary clinics.

Scars blemish their fragile backs as the brother and sister embrace their parents, showing in a single portrait how the two children got through more than 30 surgeries between them.

A superseding indictment has been issued in the brutal slaying of a Southern California man in 1988, a case that was cold for many years.

A man was caught on surveillance tape robbing a Winchell's Donut House in Long Beach at gunpoint early this morning.

A sense of urgency spread across Southern California's tight-knit Samoan community in the aftermath of a powerful earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 34 people and destroyed homes in American Samoa.

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Shane "Sugar" Johnson, 44, stands outside his Long Beach, Calif., house last month as he is questioned about the upcoming 2010 U.S. census.