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Jeremiah Dobruck

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.

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Long Beach police are investigating after a gunman opened fire on a group of people a few blocks away from Washington Middle School Monday night. The gunfire started around around 8 p.m. near 15th Street and Daisy Avenue, according to Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Pratt. That's when a gunman approached the group of men or boys and started shooting but apparently missed, she said. Nobody reported being wounded, according to Pratt. The gunman fled on foot before police arrived, she said. Investigators think the shooting may be gang-related, according to Pratt. Police couldn't immediately provide a description of the gunman.
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2 hurt when car crashes through 710 guardrail, falls from onramp

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The bicyclist killed this week on Seventh Street was a 35-year-old designer who was making a new life for himself in Long Beach before a crash snatched him away from his family, according to a relative. About a year ago, Benjamin Rael moved to Long Beach where he'd gotten a promising new position managing interior design jobs at high-end hotels, his brother Tim Rael said. It was a fresh start. "He had several years of really hard times. He always stayed positive," Tim Rael said. "He worked his way through them and things were getting better. It's the best I've ever seen him in his life." Despite moving away from his family—including six siblings—in Arizona, Benjamin Rael stayed close emotionally, sometimes driving through the night or sleeping in his car to visit his brothers and sisters for just a day. "He was just an amazing guy," his brother said. "He had the biggest damn heart you can imagine." Police said Benjamin Rael was hit by a pickup truck when his bike veered into oncoming lanes at Seventh Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue around 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 2. The driver who hit him immediately pulled over and started performing CPR, but Benjamin Rael died after paramedics took him to the hospital, according to authorities.
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Bicyclist killed in crash ‘had the biggest damn heart you can imagine,’ brother says

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A man was caught on video dragging a passenger off a Metro Blue Line train. File photo.
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VIDEO: Man drags unconscious passenger off Blue Line train in Long Beach; witness said he wanted to avoid delay

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Police lights crime file
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Man stabbed at gated condo complex near Cal State Long Beach

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Bicyclist killed in early morning crash on 7th Street

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Man convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Drake Park stabbing

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Small trash fire chars Wrigley apartment building

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Woman shot while driving near 91 Freeway in Cerritos

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Police lights crime file
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Early morning crash snarls traffic on north 710 Freeway

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At least 9,000 gallons of sewage spilled into the Los Angeles River over the weekend prompted Long Beach to warn people to stay out of the ocean. After learning of the spill Monday, Long Beach health officials closed the water at all of its beaches and swimming areas west of the Belmont Pier, according to a bulletin from the city. The spill happened in the City of Commerce around 1 p.m. Sunday, according to Nelson Kerr, the city's Environmental Health Bureau manager. "There was a main sewage line up in the city of Commerce that was blocked by tree roots and that caused the sewage to back up though a manhole cover in the middle of the street," Kerr said. Even thought that happened 17 miles away from Long Beach, the sewage poured into a storm drain that eventually emptied into the Los Angles River. Kerr said 9,000 gallons is relatively small for a sewage spill, but health officials prefer to exercise caution with anything approaching 10,000 gallons, so authorities opted to close the broad swath of Long Beach shoreline. The water could reopen as soon as tomorrow afternoon, but, Kerr cautioned, "That's the best case." If testing finds evidence of contamination, the areas will stay closed until they meet state water-quality standards, he said.
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UPDATE: City reopens beaches near Belmont Pier after 9,000-gallon sewage spill

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