Business

• Marijuana

September 11, 2018

California pot products see high safety testing failure rate

by The Associated Press    in Business

Nearly 20 percent of marijuana products in California have failed tests for potency and purity since the state started requiring the checks on July 1.

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News

• Pacific Ocean

September 10, 2018

Massive boom deployed to corral Pacific Ocean’s plastic trash

by The Associated Press    in News

Engineers are deploying a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world's largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean.

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News

• Gerald Desmond Bridge

September 4, 2018

New Gerald Desmond bridge gets sensors to gather earthquake data

by The Associated Press    in News

The new bridge is being built with about 75 seismic sensors that will measure the force when one of several nearby faults set off an earthquake.

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Business

• Trade War

September 2, 2018

Tariffs stirring fear at many U.S. points of entry for imports

by The Associated Press    in Business

The impact might be greater on truck drivers and warehouse workers, local officials say.

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Business

• Marijuana

September 2, 2018

Pot industry wants to see ‘stoner’ stereotype go up in smoke

by The Associated Press    in Business

With a multibillion-dollar industry beginning to flower — marijuana is now legal in some form in 30 states — cannabis advocates are pushing to dispel the idea that people who toke up still live on the couches in their...

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Politics

• legislation

August 29, 2018

California Assembly aims for 100 percent clean energy by 2045

by The Associated Press    in Politics

The state would speed up its effort to phase out fossil fuels entirely by 2045 under legislation approved Tuesday by the Assembly.

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News

• bail

August 28, 2018

New law to make California first state to end bail

by The Associated Press    in News

California will become the first state to eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial and replace it with a still murky risk-assessment system under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

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News

• deportations
• pardons

August 20, 2018

Gov. Brown pardons Long Beach native, 2 others facing deportation to Cambodia

by The Associated Press    in News

California Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday he pardoned three former prisoners facing the threat of deportation to Cambodia, including one who grew up in Long Beach and now works as a youth justice community organizer after serving 15 years...

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Crime

• court cases
• mental health

August 20, 2018

Treatment or trial: New state law worries prosecutors in Long Beach and beyond

by Valerie Osier and The Associated Press    in Crime

A new state law, AB 1810, allows defendants with mental health issues to ask for diversion to treatment instead of facing trial.

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Crime

• criminal justice

August 16, 2018

California considers limiting broad ‘felony murder’ law

by The Associated Press    in Crime

The law has been used in Long Beach and elsewhere to charge defendants with murder even if they had no idea the killing was about to happen.

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