Signal Hill News

In a press release issued Monday, the Signal Hill Police Department reported a 20-percent drop in violent crime within Signal Hill in 2011.

Facing harsh words from several members of a community watchdog group, the Signal Hill City Council at last Tuesday's meeting accepted a conceptual design for a new library and authorized City staff to move forward with construction plans.

The ride to the local jail lasted longer than the joyride for one recent auto theft suspect in Signal Hill, according to a news release issued by the Signal Hill Police Department .

Arraignment was postponed Thursday for two known gang members charged in one of the worst mass-killings in Long Beach history.

A candidate for the board of Long Beach Unified School District who failed to withdraw from the race by the January deadline has filed a court order to have her named removed from the ballot.

The blaze was reported at 5:54 p.m. in the 2600 block of St. Louis Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

A copy of the Press-Telegram on January 26, 2012 on top of the 1957 edition. The Long Beach Historical Society and the Press-Telegram will be dedicating the P-T Historical Newspaper Collection to the community Feb.

Signal Hill has spent more than a decade of planning to replace its tiny 4,234-square-foot library.

Congressman Craig Hosmer, Signal Hill Mayor Tom Denham, Councilmember Bill Mendenhall, Gertrude Beebe, Councilmember Paul Kemner and Kathleen Brady at the ribbon-cutting of the Signal Hill Library when it was moved to the lower floor of city hall.

With the unemployment rate being what it is in Long Beach and the surrounding area; everyone should thank the lads in Smart Patrol, their friends and Alex's Bar .

On the outside Jminto Production appears to be a recording studio. But last Monday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg vice officers and members of the D.E.A. raided the business on North Tryon Street.

Architects will present the conceptual design for a new library to the Parks and Recreation Commission at 6 p.m. today at City Hall, 2175 Cherry Ave.

A state appellate court has ruled that a Superior Court judge has the power to consider a plan for water storage in the southeast area of Los Angeles County.

A Long Beach Unified School District board candidate's failure to properly withdraw from the race will now cost the school district $200,000 to hold an election.

Rachael Rifkin Staff Writer Signal Hill has always been a special place for Julia Ahmadinia and Jonathan Amos.

Two convicted felons and alleged members of a Watts street gang were charged Wednesday with the 2008 shooting deaths of five people, one of the worst mass killings in Long Beach history.