The Long Beach City Council has unanimously put its support behind a Los Angeles County ballot initiative, known as Measure H, that proposes a quarter percent sales tax increase across the county for a 10-year period to fund regional efforts to prevent and combat homelessness.
There are uncounted ways those with less than worthy motives can separate a trusting person from his or her money. One is likely as old as the landline, once known as the telephone. These days, the most common way to take a few bucks from the unsuspecting is through the internet.
On February 12, at 3:30 a.m. Long Beach Police officers were dispatched to a call of gun shots, and a person down in the street, in the 1100 block of 10th Street.
Last week marked the annual Kids for Peace Great Kindness Challenge, a global bullying prevention initiative that improves school climate and increases student engagement. Each year, Dignity Health partners with Kids for Peace to spread kindness in our communities.
By the late 1920s, local aviator Earl Daugherty ran a successful school of aviation and airplane operations at the Chateau Thierry Field (American Avenue and Bixby Road) near Bixby Knolls. He had moved his operations from the sand facing Seaside Avenue.
Final year-end crime statistics unveiled today indicate that the most serious crime of murders dropped by 8.3 percent in 2016, and that overall crime in the City of Long Beach remained essentially flat when compared to 2015 levels.
