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New: Man Shot In Broad Daylight, 2200 block E. 14th St. (b/w Cherry & Junipero) Today: UPDATE: At 7:00, Peninsula Power Restored; Sizable Belmont Shore/Peninsula Edison Power Outage Today: DA Files Multiple Felony Charges -- Including Attempted Murder Counts -- After NLB Standoff / Shooting of Code Enforcement Inspector |
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Video Showing Portions Of An LBPD Enforcement Action Re A LB Medpot Outlet Under Review By Department; Percolates Into L.A. News Media; Excessive Force?
Council Narrowly Defeats (4-5) Motion To Let 14-18 Medical Marijuana Outlets Continue Operating Till CA Supreme Court Rules On Medpot Issues; Unanswered: To What Extent Is LB's Ban On Others (Which Will Apply As Of Also at Tuesday's City Council meeting: Councilwoman Schipske removes the item from consideration (further to follow). Council votes 9-0 to accept the grant without questions. Subsequent development above Editorial: Council Oversight Overdue Before Vote Tonite After What City Hall Told Sac'to To Get Nearly $4 Mil For 7th/Alamitos/MLK ("Armory Park") Subsequent development above Intense Lobbying Targets Proposal By Schipske-Gabelich-Neal To Update/Adjust LB's Oil Production Tax -- On Oil Producers -- To More Closely Parallel Signal Hill; Chamber Wants Measure (Which Proposes Using Add'l Oil Revenue for Police/Fire/Infrastructure) Sent To Budget Oversight Committee (Chair = DeLong), Chamber Says "Impact On Long Beach and Its Corporate Citizens Must Be Taken Into Consideration" AND Funding For Police, Fire, Infrastructure, Libraries, Rec Services Without Taxing Ordinary Taxpayers? Councilmembers Schipske, Neal & Gabelich Propose Nov. Ballot Measure To Let Voters Update/Adjust LB's Oil Production Tax -- On Oil Producers -- To More Closely Parallel Signal Hill Subsequent development above CA 2d dist. Court of Appeal -- Whose Rulings Are Controling Authority In L.A. County -- Strikes Down L.A. County Supervisors' Blanket Ban On Medpot Outlets (in unincorporated areas), Reasoning It Conflicts With And Is Preempted by State Laws Allowing Storefront Medical Marijuana Outlets AND Subsequent development above Lowenthal, Neal & Gabelich Agendize City Mgr. Names Mike DuRee New LB Fire Chief Assembly + State Senate Both Pass Two Major Portions of "Homeowner Bill of Rights" Woman Visiting NLB Apt. Is Fatally Stabbed In Sunday Afternoon Dispute Now, It's Murder: One of Two Men Shot Walk-Up, Drive-Off Shooting in NW NLB (67th/Butler) Dies Follow-Up / AUDIO: Hear Supervisor Knabe Describe Successful Advocacy Efforts to Remove Forced Flood Insurance Text From Fed'l Bill; They Came "Down to the Wire"; He Describes What Took Place...And Advises Continued Vigilance Major Legislative Victory: House & Senate Vote To Approve Flood Insurance Legislation That DOESN'T Impose Mandatory Flood Insurance In Areas At Low Flood Risk Protected By Levees; Last Minute Action Spares Homeowners & Comm'l Property Owners In Long Beach & Southeast L.A. County From Costly Annual Mandatory Flood Insurance Premiums Timed As Residents Enter Holiday Period: Caltrans & Multiple Agencies Release Proposed NLB CAG Celebration, Open House & Community BBQ Is Sunday Stockton Files For Chapter 9 Bankruptcy Protection Woman Shot In Drive-By, Area 15th St./Peterson Ave. First (Again) on LBReport.com: Councilman Garcia Tells LBPD West Division Public Meeting He Won't Support Upcoming Budget Unless It Includes Police Academy Class in FY13 Funding mechanism unmentioned for now Read Historic Ruling: Here's U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" ("Obamacare") Glass Doors Smashed Overnight (6/26-6/27) at Bay Shore Branch Library And At 2nd St. Carwash Via NBCLosAngeles.com: Cal/OSHA Cites Human Misjudgment in Report on Deadly CSULB Elevator Accident Cal State Long Beach escapes blame, but many questions remain K9 Officer Helps LBPD & U.S. Marshals Take Felony Drug Suspect Into Custody in Central LB Sun Nite Pursuit From WLB to East Wrigley After Cops Spot Stolen Car; Suspect Crashes Into Parked Car Area LB Blvd./Eagle St., Prompting Neighborhood Search w/ K9 & Helicopter Passenger (19 Yr Old Man) Dies In Single Vehicle Crash On 710 Fwy Near Downtown LB; Driver (18 Yr Old Woman) Is Booked By LBPD For Alleged Felony Impaired Driving/Vehicular Manslaughter Sunday: Long Beach had a presence as the Levitated Mass that brought crowds to Bixby Knolls and downtown LB is now permanently levitating at the L.A. County Museum of Art in L.A. LB's Laurie Angel and Chuck Fowler were present. Photos below are by Linda Ivers (thank you!) Photos above by Linda Ivers UPDATE: LBPD Says Tireless Work By Investigation Detective + West Division Officers Brings Arrest Of Suspect Driver In LB's All Volunteer Jr. Concert Band Gets Big Gig: July 4th Free Concert To Preview LB's Newest Park At Highest Point In LB Great Views + Great Music...Although Band STILL Needs A New Rehearsal Location LB Water/Sewer Rates Will Remain Unchanged For Third Straight Year; Management Manages To Keep Rates Flat Despite Higher Imported Water & Pumping Costs & Less Water Consumed USS Long Beach Will Be Disassembled, Auctioned & Sold For Scrap In Coming Weeks Takes place while USS Iowa will bring tourists and revenue to San Pedro
Via GreaterLongBeach.com: Rose Park Residents Left Hanging By Verizon's High-Wire Act by Dave Wielenga, GreaterLongBeach.com Further By the Numbers: O'Donnell Received 71-86% Of Votes Cast In Usually Low Turnout Western Precincts LBPD Arrests Fraud Suspect, Recovers $200,000 In Stolen Merchandise |
Four People Rescued (Three By Ladder) From Apt. Blaze, 600 block Magnolia Ave. June 23: Friends/Family Of Brian Beato (Millikan Baseball Team Member) Schedule Fundraiser (To Help Pay Funeral Costs): Sat. June 23, 6-10 p.m. @ St. Cornelius Church Via NBC4LA: Road-Rage Victim Arrested, CHP Confirms; Incident Includes Links to LB In Depth Coverage w/ Audio: Hear It: What the Council Did & Didn't Say And Do When It Voted To Let Some LB Medpot Outlets Stay Open While Banning Others City Mgm't Hired Consultant Firm Says City of LB's Per Capita Costs For Services (Incl. Police & Fire) Higher Than Median And In Some Cases At High End Compared To Other Cities Says some savings may be possible by combining some City Depts., says public may be amenable to tax increase ballot measure New / With In add'l Council action Tuesday night: Re downtown PBID (annual assessment to include for the first time downtown residential property owners): Council launches mail-in ballot vote and sets Aug. date for hearing on PBID assessment (for the first time applied to downtown residential property owners). Process is sought by DLBA and supported by some downtown property owners as beneficial to them and to downtown, and is opposed by Downtown Homeowners Unite as double-taxation and Earlier Tuesday afternoon: Council held a budget meeting to receive a presentation on "Potential Government Reform Ideas and Trends." Some information presented by hired consultants on LB's per capita costs compared to other cities was Subsequent development above: Rose/7th St. (2nd dist.) Area Resident Repeatedly Tells Council About Alleged Impacts Of A Collective Near Him; Collective Ass'n Advocate Kemp Denies Claims; City Mgr. Makes Memo Claim re DA Policy We Can't Confirm Subsequent development above: Editorial: Garcia Hiding From Med Pot Hot Potato, Evading Council Meeting Accountability For Costs & Impacts His Policies Helped Create By the Numbers: 4th Council District Challenger Supernaw Carried Most Eastern Precincts/Los Altos Areas While Incumbent O'Donnell Prevailed With Large Ballot Totals In Usually Lower Turnout Western Precincts Public Meeting Weds. June 20 To Discuss 5th dist. Traffic Issues & Infrastructure Needs; Topics Will Include Possible Changes Along Spring St. In El Dorado Park Area Where Teen Was Recently Struck/Killed Near Stevely Ave. Man Is Shot Minutes Before Midnight, 1300 block Lemon Ave. Wrigley Residents Roused Amid Motorcyclist Is Killed, 5500 block E. PCH, In Collision With First (Again) on LBReport.com: LB's Muni Band Schedule Shrinks to 18 Concerts This Year; Here's Info From City Mgm't Memo Rodney King, Whose Videotaped Beating by LAPD Officers Ignited Days of Looting/Rioting in LB and L.A., Found Dead at 47
VIDEO & Photo Coverage: Long Beach's Test Drive Expo Goes Beyond Ordinary Car Shows, Adds Driving Excitement For Adults, Passenger Thrills For Kids Perspective: Via CalWatchdog.com: On-Time State Budget Full of Holes, Games, Gimmicks by Katy Grimes LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: Aquarium of the Pacific's "Penguin Cam" Streams New Penguin Habitat LIVE (Above AND Below Water Line) Resident Spots Suspicious Activity, Area San Antonio/Cedar & Calls Cops; LBPD Responds, Finds & Arrests Residential Burglary Suspect See CA Dept. of Education Rankings Of All LBUSD Schools (Academic Performance Index Scores) Compared To All CA Schools And Schools w/ "Similar" Demographics UPDATE: Police Seek Public's Help And Now Have More Detailed Vehicle Description And Partial License Plate Of Suspect Vehicle in In Sight & Sound: Long Beach Symphony Chamber Players + Aquarium of the Pacific = Marvelous Musical-Oceanic Experience; Hear It! by Diana Lejins Photo credit: Diana Lejins Wrigley Area Advocates McDonald & Greenfeld-Wisner Describe Crime Impacts At Council's Public Safety Committee, Urge Replenishment Police Academy LBPD Mgm't Updates Public Safety Committee On Crime Stats and LBPD Staffing Levels, Says Need For Replenishment Police Academy Class "Is Compelling" If Funding Resources Can Be Identified, PD Working w/ Mgr. On Plan For Council In A Couple of Months LBPD Mgm't Says It Plans Demonstration/Validation Test Shortly Of A Type Of Gunfire-Location Technology But Not "ShotSpotter" System; Calls It A Similar, Cost-Effective Technology That Was Deployed in Iraq And Can Be Mobile VIDEO Coverage: LBPD Says It Has Arrested Alleged Leaders & Multiple Members of Baby Insane Crips Gang; Links Gang to 13 LB Shootings In Three Series & At Least One Murder Since Nov. 2009 June 13, 8:17 p.m.: 4.1 Quake Near Yorba Linda Lightly Felt in LB Perspective: Inconvenient Truths vs. Flinching Crime Stats & Bureaucratically Boosted PD Staffing Via Reuters: World Health Organization Reclassifies Diesel, Now Puts It Among Substances With Definite Links To Cancer (Same Risk Category As Asbestos, Arsenic and Tobacco) |
Perspective / Amnesia File w/ Audio: As Council's Public Safety Committee Meets Today On Police Levels, See/Hear What It Did & Didn't Do On Replenishment Police Academy Class And Other Items
LBReport.com photo: Jan 31, 2012 Committee meeting With AUDIO: Council's State Legislation Committee (O'Donnell, Johnson, Garcia) Votes 3-0 To Recommend Full Council Endorse SB 1243 (Would Let Shippers Continue To Avoid Paying Full Amount of CA's Sales/Use Tax On Marine Fuel) When no Committee member asks about State Bd of Equalization estimate that continuing exemption will cost state approx. $90-137.5 million annually (incl. local revenue losses), LBReport.com asks about this; hear Committee members' responses Mother Who Gave Birth And With Child's Grandma Invented Story Of Finding Infant At Gas Stn. Both Admit Guilt To City Prosecutor Charges...And Both Have Now Been Sentenced Cluster Mgm't At PressTelegram & Eight Other Former Independent Local Dailies To Make Further Editor/Newsroom Changes; Read Their Memo Video on LiveLeak.com Shows An LBPD Arrest; See It...And LBPD Statement Hit & Run Driver Allegedly Kills Pedestrian Crossing Anaheim @ Linden; Police Say Driver & His Passenger Allegedly Exited Their Vehicle, Approached Victim, Then Left Belmont Shore Business Robbed, 5200 block 2nd St. VIDEO & Photo Coverage: Emotion-Packed 2nd Annual Jalen & Breanna Thayer Memorial Run/Walk Recalls Lives, Plans For The Future This happened at 10th St./Roswell Ave. at late afternoon/early evening Sunday June 10 Photo credit: Chris Brito LB Violent Crimes Year To Date Up Almost 6%, Property Crimes Up A Little Over 12% Citywide; In East Division (46% of LB East of Cherry to City Limit), No Increase in Violent Crimes But Property Crimes Up Almost 22% Over Last Year Updated Tally: DeLong Within 3.6 Percentage Points of Lowenthal Districtwide LBPD + Multiple Agencies Incl. U.S. Marshal Service Conduct Subsequent coverage above Saturday Morning Is 2nd Annual Jalen & Breanna Thayer Memorial 5K Run/Walk @ Patrick Henry Elem. School Editorial / Appreciation: On Ray Bradbury Sharp Eyed LB Cops Spot Stolen Vehicle in East Wrigley; One Suspect Swiftly Arrested, Another Hides/Barricades Himself In Neighborhood Shed & SWAT Gets Him Out, 2400 block Earl Ave. Woman Is Beaten/Badly Abused By Group of Males, June 6 Approx. 3 a.m. Area Anaheim St./Redondo Ave. Via BelmontShore.Patch.com: Two Women Robbed At Gunpoint on 2nd St./LaVerne Ave. in Belmont Shore, June 5 Approx. 1:20 a.m. 2nd Annual Jalen & Breanna Thayer Memorial 5K Run/Walk & Is This Saturday, Passage / Archival VIDEO: Ray Bradbury, Famed Author of Fahrenheit 451 And Outspoken Critic of LB RDA/City Hall Plans To Demolish Acres of Books Bookstore, Sic Transit Councilman O'Donnell State Leg. Committee Chair O'Donnell Agendizes Item Recommending Approval of SB 1243 (Would Let Shippers Continue Avoiding Full Amount of CA's Sales/Use Tax On Marine Fuel They Buy); Measure Recently Passed Senate, Is Now In Assembly First (Again) on LBReport.com: Largest City Employee Union (IAM) Wins Proposed Order From Public Employment Relations Board ALJ Concluding City Hall-Imposed Furloughs Violated State Law (Without Bargaining To Agreement or Impasse) And Ordering City To "Make Whole" Employees "Adversely Affected" City Att'y will recommend appealing proposed ruling in upcoming Council closed session WITH VIDEO: Councilman O'Donnell Is WITH VIDEO: |
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