The union is demanding a 12% salary increase. The strike, which could disrupt classes, is planned to start Monday and last through Friday.
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Planning Commission approves 32-unit townhome project in Bixby Knolls
The new townhomes will be built at the southwest corner of San Antonio Drive and Orange Avenue where there are currently two commercial buildings and a small park.
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‘Emergency’ or not, COVID is still killing people. Here’s what doctors advise to stay safe.
With changes in the nature of the pandemic and the response, KFF Health News spoke with doctors and researchers about how to best handle covid, influenza, and other respiratory ailments spreading this season.
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Man guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old girl who held up ‘help me’ sign before her rescue
The 62-year-old defendant admitted to holding the girl at gunpoint and sexually assaulting her before she was rescued in Long Beach.
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8 possibly sickened by raw oysters in Long Beach; city urges caution
More than 150 illnesses have been reported throughout Southern California and officials are asking residents to avoid eating certain types of raw oysters.
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Long Beach man gets life in prison plus 30 years for bombing ex-girlfriend’s Orange County spa
A judge handed down the sentence after federal prosecutors argued the defendant’s “callousness, depravity, and complete disregard for human life was sociopathic.”
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California ends COVID isolation rule for asymptomatic cases as winter infections climb
California relaxed its COVID-19 isolation guidelines just as infections for the respiratory virus increased. Symptom-free people can go to work or school.
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Sublime to reunite with Bradley Nowell’s son Jakob as frontman for Coachella
The 28-year-old Nowell is joining original Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson for Coachella 2024 and other unannounced dates.
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Long Beach Congressman Robert Garcia proposes universal basic income program for foster youth
The proposed program would pay young adults exiting the foster care system $1,000 a month for five years.
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Jerry Pryor, a homeless man who became a local celebrity, dies at 78
For years, Pryor could be seen around Lakewood Village pulling a cart piled as high as his head with his belongings, which included tools he used for pruning bushes and trees, sweeping and picking up trash in the area.