Long Beach News

LONG BEACH >> Elementary school students will receive progress reports instead of report cards for the duration of the school year, extending a move made last fall.

NORWALK >> Officials have identified a Long Beach man found fatally stabbed in Norwalk last week and announced the arrest of a suspect.

SACRAMENTO >> A 94-year-old Long Beach woman who still works at the local Boeing plant was honored Wednesday as the Woman of the Year in the 70th Assembly District.

Traveling Rotarians from Sochi, Russia Arsen Tsuguryan and Michael Zhigarev chat as the motor under the Gerald Desmond Bridge in the Port of Long Beach during a tour.

Andrea Weber, with the Center for Biological Diversity leads environmentalists a demonstration to protest "fracking" outside the Coastal Commission's meeting at Long Beach City Hall in Long Beach, CA.

Dan Savage, known for his internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column, Savage Love, and as the co-creator of the It Gets Better Project, decided in 2005 to challenge his Pacific NW readers to "get their hands dirty" and create good, old-fashion homemade porn.

Sometimes, the Long Beach suburbs births a concept eatery so needed, it doesn't even bother the hopeless nostalgics that it replaced the city's last remaining car-hop diner.

When: Saturday through June 8. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday.

I think I know how the coyote that attracted so much attention on Hemet's east side wound up with a chain around its neck.

Famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo revealed her soul in the brush strokes of her self-portraits.

LONG BEACH >> A local group is soliciting donations of simple items - hair bands, toiletries, household items - that can make a big difference to victims of human trafficking.

LONG BEACH >> Two brothers have been arrested and charged in connection with a gang-related shooting last month that left one man dead on the city's northside, Long Beach police said Tuesday.

LONG BEACH >> What might be the last big-name endorsement for mayor came off the board Tuesday after U.S. Rep. Alan Lowenthal gave his support to his ex-wife, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal.

Suzan Hansen and Robin Buck will star in the Long Beach Opera's "The Death of Klinghoffer."

However, the massage practitioner, who lives in the West End, isn't going to the city's first TED conference.

From a Culver City press release: The city learned last week that the property owner, Mr. Karagozian, made the decision to decommission the Culver Ice Arena and thereby remove the ammonia from the refrigeration system.

The California Supreme Court appears poised to make the correct decision, favoring the public's right to know the names of police officers involved in shootings over the officers' desire for privacy.

R: Webster Elementary principal Maria Martinez receives donated bags of food for needy students from Food For Kids volunteer Nancy Cortez and coordinator Alexandria Weiss.The organization donates bags every Friday, so that the needy children can have food for the weekend.

LONG BEACH >> Environmentalists will demand the California Coastal Commission order a stop to the fracking of offshore oil wells on Wednesday during a demonstration at City Hall in which protesters plan to cover themselves in hazmat suits and tote boogie boards.

William Hauck, the longest serving trustee for the California State University system, died Friday at the Sutter Roseville Medical Center in Northern California after an eight-month battle with brain cancer.