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01/09/2025 - 4:42pm
The Cherese Mari Laulhere BirthCare Center at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital joined proud parents Elsa Ruiz and Miguel Romero in welcoming their new baby Ariel Leilani, the first delivered baby of 2025 at Miller Children’s & Women’s.
Ariel Leilani arrived just in time to become the first baby born in Long Beach at the Cherese Mari Laulhere BirthCare Center at Miller Children’s...
01/09/2025 - 4:41pm
As 2025 begins, California residents will see new laws, from business regulations to criminal justice reform.
BUSINESS & CONSUMER PROTECTIONS
The new year brings regulations for fair business practices and stronger consumer protections across sectors like online marketplaces, automotive sales, subscription services and employment.
Cracking Down on Organized Retail Theft
California has...
01/09/2025 - 4:34pm
Since the early 1930s, the canal walls of Naples, built in 1905-1906, have been crumbling. Major repairs made in 1939 and 1967 are no longer adequate and today the problem has resurfaced.
Work done in 1967 raised the canal walls 16-18 inches at the cost of $455,000 ($4.15 million in 2023), according to the March 8, 1967 Press-Telegram. That same year, $1.332 million ($12.2 million) was allotted...
01/09/2025 - 4:33pm
Leadership in the California Coalition for PANS/PANDAS was more than thrilled to find out that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB2105 into law, which as of the first of the year, went into effect and allows for medical insurance coverage for a condition that can be devastating to children and their family. Assemblyman Josh Lowenthal led the way on the bill being signed into law – including seeing the...
01/09/2025 - 3:20pm
Vocalist Brenton Wood was born Alfred Jesse Smith in Shreveport, LA, on July 26, 1941, and was raised in San Pedro. In 1956, he transferred from San Pedro to Compton High School and recorded as a teen. “When I started singing, I started with two groups, but I could never get the guys to come to rehearsal when I wanted so I bought two tape recorders and started harmonizing with myself and building...
01/09/2025 - 3:08pm
Each year, Long Beach-based For The Child hosts Santa’s Workshop, an event that supports the families they serve by providing gifts, food and wrapping paper to ensure they will have a nice holiday celebration. The community generously donates to the supply of toys and gifts that are distributed each year.
For the past six years, a group of high school teens from Pacific Palisades have collected...
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