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A new challenge is facing the port of Hampton Roads: the arrival of the port's largest-ever container ships.

A Long Beach woman was killed early Saturday in Los Angeles when the motorcycle she was driving slammed into a car as it turned into the motorcycle's path, police said.

The next front in California's long-running water wars has already opened, and the reasons for it will sometimes be hard to see - but not always.

Travis Irving won his first feature since 2011 and Ryan Partridge took his third of the season in the Lucas Oil Late Model Twins at Irwindale Speedway on Saturday night before 3,823 spectators.

The CPCC was established in 1990 following an incident in Long Beach that was captured on video and aired across the nation.

LONG BEACH >> Long Beach City Prosecutor Doug Haubert confirmed his office is looking into possible irregularities involving the April 8 election.

Keaton King remembers when the discovery of oil fueled Signal Hill's revenue. Back then, in the 1920s, the city wasn't so much of a residential town as it was a hub for the oil industry.

The aerospace union that represents an estimated 1,000 workers on Boeing Co.' s dying C-17 cargo jet program in Long Beach, Calif., has rejected a proposed contract because of cuts to pension and medical benefits.

LONG BEACH >> City leaders this week approved a resolution that “strongly encourages” MemorialCare and the California Nurses Association to reach an agreement on a contract for nurses at Community Hospital of Long Beach.

The Barry Award is a prize for crime fiction that has been awarded since 1997 by the editorial staff of Deadly Pleasures .

Q. Is the city water safe? I've been drinking it since I moved here almost seven years ago, with no apparent ill effects, but recently several people have expressed shock that I fill my glass straight from the tap.

Incoming boats and ships under 300 tons are being screened as part of an operation to block illegal radiation sources from entering through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, a port official said today.

David Seldes, who requires medication, was last seen around 11:30 a.m. Thursday at the building in the 3100 block of E. Artesia Boulevard.

The Los Angeles 2020 Commission -created by City Council President Herb Wesson a year ago-released its second report, "A Time for Action," in early April.

Months of grinding on the campaign trail came to an end for many mayoral, city council and school board candidates on April 8 when some Long Beach voters made their voices heard and settled the score for the next four years.

LONG BEACH >> Plans are underway to open three new high schools in Long Beach Unified - two small public schools and a charter school.

LONG BEACH >> One of the city's most powerful employee organizations, the Long Beach Police Officers Association, has endorsed Vice Mayor Robert Garcia for mayor in the June runoff.

Marcial Rios, 32, was taken into custody Saturday by U.S. Customs agents at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Ysidro and was returned to the U.S. Two other suspects, both of Long Beach, had already been arrested: Miguel Medina, 32, was arrested June 4, and Jose Torres, 30, was arrested Jan. 23. On April 23 of last year, police were dispatched to a ... (more)

Next to Normal: California Repertory Company presents a rock musical about secrets and lies that torment a family.

LONG BEACH >> The mysterious deaths of twin sisters in the upscale Long Beach neighborhood of Naples continues to perplex those who knew them, and recently released coroner's reports offer few answers.