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The student ambassadors at Barton Elementary School in Long Beach organized a candlelight vigil Wednesday afternoon for Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and human rights leader who died last week.

The toys can be donated to the Long Beach Police Foundation's annual Toy Patrol holiday drive at various police stations and other locations in the city.

Two men and a woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a murder charge in the death of a Cerritos man whose body was discovered last month in a parking structure in Torrance.

Snoop Dogg performed as Snoopzilla on Dec. 10, 2013 along with legendary funk star Bootsy Collins at a record release party at Exchange LA for his new project 7 Days of Funk.

Long Beach and South Bay area freeways were mostly calm Wednesday morning, with the California Highway Patrol's incident report site reporting only a handful of minor traffic hazards and accidents.

For anyone that's missed it, after month's of planning and a week of social media fun, yesterday marked the re-launch of LongBeachize, a popular source for news and views on the Long Beach Transportation scene.

Chloe NA rgaard has only one requirement for her new LA home: "I just really want a garden.

LONG BEACH >> Community Hospital Long Beach nurses who are locked in contract negotiations with their employer gathered Tuesday to make their case for more staffing and better wages in order to remedy what they described as unsafe conditions for patients and themselves Nurses, who are organized under the banner of the California Nurses Association, ... (more)

LONG BEACH >> Medical marijuana is an issue that never seems to stick to plan in Long Beach, and it took another surprise turn Tuesday night.

A man has been arrested in connection with the robberies of two Riverside stores about a mile apart on Nov. 29. Jonathon Edward Washington, 24, of Pasadena, was taken into custody by Long Beach police after fleeing from them in a stolen vehicle, Sgt.

LONG BEACH >> Despite an increase in the number of times a Long Beach Police Department K-9 unit's dog bites a suspect, the unit has a bite ratio three times lower than that of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and less than half of the Los Angeles Police Department.

After a full day of watching banda music videos and drawing mariposas on our hands in honor of Jenni Rivera's first deathaversary, we hoofed it over to the new Hamburger Mary's in downtown Long Beach last night for an opening night so perfect, it couldn't help but fill the house.

On this day in 2007, former Daily Telegraph owner Lord Black was jailed for stealing from the empire he helped build.

The driver of a stolen pickup truck that veered off Pacific Coast Highway and down an embankment, killing a passenger, pleaded not guilty Monday to vehicular manslaughter.

Indian Motorcycle is donating a one-of-a-kind custom 2014 Chief Vintage motorcycle to support "Operation Ride Home," a partnership program between Jack Daniel Distillery and the Armed Services YMCA designed to help junior-enlisted service members and their families travel to their homes across the country this holiday season.

Fans of Jenni Rivera flocked Monday to a quiet residential street in Lakewood and a cemetery in Long Beach to remember the Mexican-American singer.

Volunteers from CSULB's Delta Chi fraternity help build a new community garden at the corner of 7th Street and Chestnut Ave in Long Beach, CA on Sunday, December 8, 2013.

Boeing Co. workers stand on platforms as they wave at their last C-17 Globemaster III cargo jet built for the U.S. Air Force as it flies away at the aerospace company's plant in Long Beach, Sept.

LONG BEACH >> Former City Councilwoman Tonia Reyes Uranga said she is withdrawing from next year's 70th Assembly District race to care for her ailing father.

There are few real "classics" in the categories of life and the word is often abused, inaccurate or inappropriately applied to everything from rock songs to cars.