Lakewood News

After the housing bubble burst a few years ago, sending real estate prices to the floor in many places, some influential academics and urban planners celebrated the supposed demise of something they had always hated: the suburbs.

Two people died in a crash between a motorcycle and a minivan at an intersection in Long Beach on Monday, June 17, 2013.

After the housing bubble burst a few years ago, sending real estate prices to the floor in many places, some influential academics and urban planners celebrated the supposed demise of something they had always hated: the suburbs.

A 51-year-old Lakewood woman has sued Costco and Townsend Farms after she contracted hepatitis A after eating an organic berry mix.

As old of a city as Long Beach is, it still turns into a typical suburban zone of long, safe streets beyond Pacific Coast Highway and east of Redondo Avenue, lined with boxy houses reminiscent of Lakewood or Huntington Beach or any other nearby neighborhood built out in the decades of post-war boom.

Brian Ramos knows the routine. Three years after graduating from Cal State Los Angeles with a bachelor's degree in English literature, the 29-year-old Long Beach resident has submitted hundreds of resumes to prospective employers.

Authorities issued these images of the so-called "Midnight Bandit" holding up gas stations in Diamond Bar on April 19, 2013, left, and in Lakewood on Feb.

LAKEWOOD >> Sheriff's detectives are pursuing two suspects in connection with a fatal shooting at Coke Avenue and Arbor Road, a deputies spokeswoman said.

Police said the victim was confronted by two Hispanic men, who shot him and fled in a four-door, older model Toyota Camry.

An adult male was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no further details available about the 2 p.m. shooting, which occurred in the 3700 block of Arbor Road, according to Lakewood Station Lt.

In March, Wenn was named assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction of the La Caada Unified School District.

Lakewood celebrates their annual Memorial Day event at Del Valle Park on Monday, May 27, 2013.

A new report by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based private, nonprofit group, says metropolitan Bakersfield had the fourth worst suburban poverty rate in the nation in 2010.

Children play at Bloomfield Park in Lakewood. Lakewood's high quality playgrounds, parks and recreation services have again earned it the prestigious "Playful City USA" recognition for the fourth consecutive year.

Memorial Day tributes begin Friday in Long Beach, then start up again Sunday in Los Alamitos and continue Monday in Lakewood and Seal Beach.