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Illegal fireworks show startles Long Beach; scores of rockets …
Oct 28, 2024 · A large-scale illegal fireworks show woke up many Long Beach residents late Sunday night and sent them searching for answers about what was going on. Videos posted online showed dozens of rockets being launched from the Queensway Bridge on the city’s Downtown waterfront.
Officer wounded, gunman dead after standoff outside North Long …
Nov 20, 2024 · Long Beach police shot and killed a man who is suspected of wounding an LBPD officer during a standoff Tuesday evening on the steps of a North Long Beach church. The officer, who was shot in the arm, was briefly hospitalized but is “in good spirits and expected to make a full recovery,” Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said in a statement.
Long Beach election results • Long Beach Post News
Nov 5, 2024 · Read our analysis of what Prop. 36 will mean for Long Beach here. Our state representatives and Congressman Robert Garcia cruised to victory. The closest race remains the Long Beach City College Board of Trustees, but Ennette Y. Morton has pulled ahead by nearly 1,000 votes — giving her a relatively comfortable margin.
Gang members get life in prison for Long Beach mass shooting
Jan 29, 2024 · Five gang members have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing three people and wounding nine others in what was one of the worst mass shootings in Long Beach history.
Spate of 6 shootings leaves 1 dead, 4 wounded across Long …
Dec 22, 2023 · Detectives are investigating a string of six separate shootings across Long Beach that left one person dead and four others injured Thursday night. At least two of the shootings are believed to be related, police said, but many of the details remain under investigation.
Two Long Beach schools lock down after reports of an intruder, …
Oct 18, 2024 · “Officers conducted an investigation and have determined a person with a gun was not seen near or on campus and there is no active threat to the school,” the Long Beach …
One in four people now testing positive for COVID in Long Beach
Long Beach and Los Angeles County again set records for new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, with one in four people in Long Beach now testing positive for the virus. The city reported 1,720 new cases, with a positivity rate of about 24.6%—up from 3% just two weeks ago .
Long Beach is about to end its emergency on homelessness. What …
Feb 3, 2024 · When Long Beach city leaders declared a homelessness emergency in January 2023, they were blunt about how dire a situation the city was facing. “Prior to the pandemic, we had a homeless crisis in our city, we had a housing crisis in our region, but the pandemic has exacerbated that crisis,” newly-minted Mayor Rex Richardson said at the time.