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5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping

Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.

2 teens charged with girl's death at Calif. school

Two 16-year-old boys have been charged as adults in the death of a 16-year-old girl who was shot after a homecoming football game in Long Beach.

Captain rescued from pirates visits Queen Mary

"It was no Queen Mary," the captain of the American cargo ship who surrendered himself to Somali pirates said about his five days as a hostage in a small lifeboat.

Ex-Marine gets life in prison for drug deal murder

A 22-year-old former U.S. Marine has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of a Long Beach man in a drug deal dispute.

2 window washers rescued from Calif. high-rise

Two window washers have been rescued after dangling from a Long Beach high-rise after their work platform tilted.

Woman puts man in sleeper hold, stops bank heist

Cyndi Orel worked as a police officer for 25 years and never caught a bank robber. She was apparently saving that hobby for retirement. The retired Long Beach police officer foiled a bank robbery at a grocery store Saturday when she put a 220-pound bank robber in a chokehold until he passed out. Orel is about 5 feet 7 inches and 128 pounds

Coast Guard suspends search after planes collide

The Coast Guard suspended its search Tuesday for at least three people missing after two small planes collided in flight off the Southern California coast.

Small aftershock rattles downtown Los Angeles

A small but widely felt aftershock jolted the Los Angeles region Tuesday, two days after a magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck. An apartment building in Long Beach was evacuated due to roof damage but there were no reports of serious injuries.

Power takes Long Beach pole in new car

Will Power has won the pole for the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Castroneves cleared to race in Long Beach

Helio Castroneves has been cleared to race in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

Franchitti drives off with Long Beach IndyCar win

Dario Franchitti came here believing the seaside street circuit in downtown Long Beach owed him a win.

Police: Hospital rampage motive may never be known

Disbelief shrouded a modest cluster of nondescript bungalows Friday where Mario Ramirez had lived with his wife and two sons, sometimes jogged through the neighborhood and seemed to have a smile, a wave or a joke for everyone he met.

Coast Guard suspends search for elderly couple

The Coast Guard suspended its search Saturday for an elderly couple believed to have fallen off a cruise ship between Long Beach and northern Mexico.

Mexico could postpone Pacific port's construction

Mexico's Transportation Secretary Luis Tellez says the construction of a huge new Pacific seaport in Baja California could be postponed because of the world economic slowdown. The port could compete with Long Beach and Los Angeles if built.

Long Beach, Calif., police baffled by 5 slayings

The crime scene, alongside a busy freeway off-ramp, was shielded from view by dense brush and tangled tree limbs.

Long Beach police shoot Los Angeles police officer

Long Beach police shot and wounded an armed and off-duty Los Angeles police officer early Wednesday after he allegedly ignored orders to drop his gun, authorities said.

Truckers sue over access to Los Angeles-area ports

A trade group representing truckers filed a lawsuit claiming plans to clean up the air around the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach place unfair restrictions on their members.

Ex-officer convicted in Calif. robbery ring sentenced

A former Long Beach police officer was sentenced Monday to more than eight years in prison for being part of a ring of corrupt officers who robbed homes while carrying out fake drug raids.

Will Power dominates for historic win in last Champ Car race

The Champ Car World Series bid goodbye to racing Sunday with a dominating victory by Will Power, one of the drivers making the transition to the newly unified IRL IndyCar Series.

Man Acquitted of Smuggling Iguanas

A jury acquitted a man of smuggling endangered iguanas in his hollowed-out prosthetic leg but convicted him of concealing and possessing the endangered species.

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Police Officer Shoots Pit Bull
Source: Press Telegram

LONG BEACH - Long Beach police searched for a suspect armed with a knife but instead shot and wounded a large pit bull after it allegedly attacked one of the officers, authorities said today. The suspect managed to evade detection, according to police.

Man charged in dragging death of toddler
Source: The Long Beach Press Telegram

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A Long Beach man was charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in the death of a 1-year-old girl who was hit by an SUV and dragged about a mile up Redondo Avenue before the driver stopped late Friday night.

Long Beach Infested with Moths
Source: The Long Beach Press Telegram

A nine-square-mile area of Long Beach is under a plant-and-fruit quarantine following the discovery of insects capable of ruining local trees and fruit crops, according to state officials.

Long Beach Aquarium's tiger shark is a picky eater -- latimes.com
Source: The L.A. Times

Long Beach Aquarium's tiger shark is a picky eater The species is known for eating almost anything, but this young one often turns up its snout at gourmet fare. When that happens, the staff gets grumpy.

Westcoaster.ca - News - Tofino News - First It Was Squid; Now It�s Pilchard
Source: westcoaster

TOFINO — Nearly 1,000 pilchard and herring washed up on a Tofino beach Wednesday, just days after a similar phenomenon involving Humboldt squid.

Squid sightings show species' unusual trek - The Globe and Mail
Source: The Globe and Mail

An estimated 300 to 500 Humboldt squid swam ashore in the Long Beach area on the west coast of Vancouver Island

A Summer Place
Source: The District Weekly

It's hard to say whether life really is better in one of the Ranchos, Long Beach's area of 950 ranch houses designed by Cliff May, who invented the style. But there are days when it sure seems that way.

Rescuers weep as whales die - 44 animals are shot
Source: sowetan.co.za

VOLUNTEERS who had spent hours trying to rescue 55 false killer whales that stranded themselves at Long Beach, Kommetjie, in Cape Town wept hysterically when officials decided to shoot the animals on Saturday afternoon. "We euthanised 42 and another two were euthanised during  …

Madison's first train ride.

Today my little girl took her first metro train ride.

Road Rage Driver Charged With Murder
Source: Long Beach Press Telegram

LONG BEACH - A murder charge was filed today against an Orange County man who allegedly rammed his sedan into another driver standing near his car following an altercation on a freeway offramp in the Long Beach area.

SoCal ports to start collecting environmental fee
Source: The Sacramento Bee

LOS ANGELES - The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to begin collecting cargo container fees on Wednesday to help finance an ambitious clean-air initiative after a three-month delay and despite opposition from the federal agency that regulates the ports.

Elderly Couple Vanishes from Cruise Ship
Source: cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com

Elderly Couple Vanishes from Cruise Ship See the video news story

San Diego Crews Search Water For Missing Couple
Source: msnbc.com

Coast Guard crews looked in the waters off San Diego County Saturday for an elderly couple who may have jumped off a cruise ship as it steamed past the area.

Video: Pizza at Long Beach Public Schools
Source: Newsday.com

The pizza didn't look that good when I was in school!

Video: Bubbles Fill Airport Hanger After Glitch
Source: local6.com

A police department helicopter gets buried in 30 feet of firefighting foam after a technical glitch. --------- More Video and article: "Firefighting foam fills a Long Beach airport hangar"

Drawn Together
Source: The District Weekly

Opie Ortiz will always be the guy who tattooed 'Sublime' on Brad Nowell's back. And he's okay with that.

Stand by Workers at the Press-Telegram as They Fight for Good Jobs
Source: Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO

Cancel your subscription to the Press Telegram today!Journalists and many others employed by the Press-Telegram need our help. For 14 months now, these workers have been negotiating with their employer Los Angeles Newspaper Group (LANG), to fight to make their jobs good jobs.

Home Sweet Home
Source: The District Weekly

Johnny Rebs is back! (yes, it's filed under religion. some people consider BBQ a religion).

Pure Fixation
Source: The District Weekly

This is a beautiful home!

Power to the People
Source: The District Weekly

It's hard to believe, but up until about 10 years ago, Andrea Bell's little yellow sun-powered house overlooked the Pacific Electric train tracks slicing Long Beach northwest to southeast.

Do It Yourself: The 1920s cottages on Barker Way were built from kits
Source: The District Weekly

The little houses on Barker Way in Belmont Heights—and on the north side of Vermont Street between Lucille and Tremont avenues—aren't a historic district yet....

The Grand Prix: Demystified
Source: The District Weekly

This is just a sampling of what you can find beginning Thursday on streets very near to you. So don't accept that free trip to the Los Angeles Zoo or flee the state for the weekend. The circus is coming to town!

The House That Poplar Built
Source: The District Weekly

The 1950s were all about family, and architects complicitly collaborated—centering their houses around the back yard and making entrances as oblique and off-putting as possible. Their message seemed to be "Go away, we're home."

PROSPECTS OF WAITING: Mining for waitressing tips at Haskell's Prospector
Source: The District Weekly

This reminds me a lot of the waitress, Alice, at Johnny Reb's.

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