As SNAP benefits falter, Long Beach confronts crushing food demands
With lines out the door, countless first-time families and emergency distribution centers, pantries and churches consider how long they can keep people fed.
Is your ballot signature readable? Here’s how SoCal officials verify it when you vote
If you’re voting by mail in California’s special election, or in any election, each ballot filed requires a signature. Those signatures are then verified as ballots are counted. Here’s how that process works.
Gavin Newsom’s congressional maps face their final test at the ballot box
Tuesday is the final day for California voters to weigh in on whether to approve Newsom’s plan to redistrict congressional lines to favor Democrats.
Driver gets 16 years in prison for crashing into, killing man pushing disabled car
The 61-year-old defendant pleaded no contest to one count each of gross vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run driving resulting in death or serious injury.
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How Long Beach is celebrating Veterans Day: a free festival and banners of local heroes
Long Beach’s Veterans Day celebration will return to Houghton Park on Saturday, Nov. 8 from noon to 4 p.m.
‘I don’t know what we’re going to do.’ Californians fear loss of food aid as shutdown drags on
More than five million low-income Californians — including 93,000 Long Beach residents — are expected to lose their CalFresh food assistance benefits starting Saturday. States are suing the Trump administration…
Convicted killer confesses to 3 cold-case gang murders, LBPD says
The unsolved slayings stretched back as far as 2004, according to the department.
Neighbors say they’re tired of brawls, rowdy students outside Wilson High School
Two large fights just outside campus have them pressing the school board and superintendent for answers.
Authorities identify man killed in crash on 405 Freeway in Long Beach
The CHP released new details about the wreck on Friday, saying a 69-year-old driver suddenly veered across the freeway, crashing into a Tesla in the far left lane.
Groups spent $26 million to sway voters over Prop. 50, more than any ballot measure in state history
As election day approaches, nonprofits, political parties and a billionaire have spent nearly $26 million on ads and other communications in an effort to convince voters to support or oppose…
Suspect arrested in deadly shooting of homeless man under 91 Freeway, Long Beach police say
Police did not disclose how detectives identified the suspected shooter or what may have motivated the killing.
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