Prosecutors allege Esparza went to a motel where he believed a babysitter was waiting with a 4-year-old girl.
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Earth Day was trash day for volunteers cleaning up at Dominguez Gap Wetlands
“I think it’s important that people see that people care and show up,” one volunteer said.
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New Long Beach Symphony show explores the Cambodian-American experience
On April 29, the Long Beach Symphony will debut “Khmeraspora,” a musical performance of song, dance, spoken word and rap that tells the story and collective experience of the Cambodian exodus to Long Beach.
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LA-Long Beach again ranks as nation’s most ozone-polluted region
It’s a title nobody wants, but the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area was again named the most ozone-polluted region in the nation in an annual air-quality report released this week.
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Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace
The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop roughly once a week so far this year.
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California bills to expand state tax credits could send $1 billion to low-income families
State legislators recently authored two bills that would expand California’s Earned Income Tax Credit and its Young Child Tax Credit, but the bills would cost about $1.1 billion annually, in a year the state is predicting a $22.5 billion to $25 billion deficit.
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Community members raise questions, offer support for proposed affordable housing project
The proposed 14-story project in Long Beach’s East Village would dedicate 75% of its units to unhoused people and could break ground as early as 2025.
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Judge dismisses pollution case against Big Bang on the Bay organizers
Judge Mark C. Scarsi ruled that the evidence offered by Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation (CERF), a group of environmentalists dedicated to protecting California’s coasts, was not enough to prove continuous and ongoing violations of the Clean Water Act by the event organizers.
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Doggies debut at City Council meetings
Long Beach Animal Care Services has restarted the pre-COVID tradition of bringing adoptable dogs into City Council meetings.
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New zoning aimed at increasing commercial space in West Long Beach heads to City Council
West Long Beach could finally be getting updated zoning that will require commercial uses along some of its biggest corridors to try and draw businesses like banks and grocery stores to the side of the city that currently lacks them.