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Like many cities, Long Beach is seeing a financial turnaround as officials project good times ahead, at least in the short term.

Long Beach Police Department TAC Sgt. Greg Schirmer, center, inspects Class 87 of Long Beach Police Academy as they enter their 6th week of the 6-month program in Long Beach, CA.

The fields of Long Beach are littered with the casualties of the 2014 city elections.

To some Long Beach residents, the strip mall unit at 2507 Long Beach Boulevard is best known as Julio's, a beloved 'hood-ready Italian delivery establishment that takes forever to get to your door, but surprises with edible pies and standard meatball subs.

Former Army infantryman Jon Stites is on a mission - to make veterans laugh, at any cost.

Cuisine: This Asian eclectic maxi-restaurant has a sprawling space with a menu that's part sushi bar and part Chinese eatery.

Long Beach police grapple with six shootings believed to be gang related over a 60-hour period from July 4 to July 7, 2014.

Dan Spellens spent a good part of Independence Day weekend watching Lou Gehrig's “Luckiest Man” speech.

For months now, we've been sharing our suggestions with you for our favorite places in and around Long Beach.

Long Beach City College officials break ground on a new $23.4-million, 31,000-square-foot Student Services building on their Pacific Coast Campus in Long Beach, CA, on Tuesday, July 8, 2014.

A 20-year-old man was charged today with rape and other counts stemming from attacks on two women last month in Long Beach and Signal Hill.

Members of the Teamsters Union picket at the LBCT terminal at the Port of Long Beach in support of a strike by port truck drivers.

The annual ride is expected to attract 500 women cyclists, and a few men, to a course that covers either a 15- or 38-mile loop, from Long Beach to Huntington Beach and back.

After one- or two-day strikes on previous occasions , more than 120 port truck drivers in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, have started an indefinite strike to protest being misclassified as independent contractors and intimidation over their organizing efforts: Roughly 40% of all imports to the United States go through one of those two ... (more)

Deputy Dist. Atty. John Lewin makes his opening remarks Monday at the trial of Douglas Bradford, 62, who is charged in the slaying of Lynne Knight.

One of the reasons we decided not to become mayor of Long Beach is we didn't feel comfortable about the media sticking its nose into every aspect of what would be our no-longer-private life.

Pierpoint Landing, located at 200 Aquarium Road Long Beach , CA 90802 Phone : 983-9300 Visit them online at: http://www.pierpoint.net Experience the joys of Long Beach fresh fishing by way of the 1/2 Day boat the "Southern Cal."

Long Beach, CA / ACCESSWIRE / July 7, 2014 / Envent is pleased to announce the addition of a new, highly biodegradable, oil-based vapor scrubbing solution to its proprietary VapoScrub chemistry line.

Despite a growing population of great white sharks in U.S. waters, attacks on humans are "extremely uncommon," said Tobey Curtis, a shark researcher with NOAA.

The impact on the movement of cargo around the sprawling port complex, the main gateway for hundreds of billions of dollars of trade with Asia, was limited in the strike's first hours.