Melahat Rafiei, the principal and founder of Progressive Solutions Consulting, a Long Beach-based political consulting firm, pleaded guilty today to a felony charge for attempting to defraud one of her political consultancy firm’s clients.
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US Treasury reallocates $1.1M in additional rental assistance funds to Long Beach
The funds will add to the roughly $70 million that the city has already distributed to households that fell behind on rent because their incomes were affected by the pandemic.
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Shelter pets return to City Council agenda
Dogs and cats will make biweekly appearances at City Council meetings. That’s one item that will receive unanimous support!
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MemorialCare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital Long Beach offers one-of-a-kind 3D full body imaging
With this innovative technology, the Orthopedic Center at MemorialCare can deliver the right amount of radiation at the right time.
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Driver hospitalized after running red light in East Long Beach, police say
The crash happened just before 8 a.m. at the intersection of Bellflower Boulevard and Los Coyotes Diagonal.
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Police investigate pair of overnight shootings that left 2 wounded
One of the shootings left a woman in critical condition, authorities said.
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Long Beach likely to move forward with temporary Westside homeless shelter, mayor says
Mayor Rex Richardson said that finding a location for a temporary shelter is often a game of “political hot potato,” but a new proposal to open a new site that would replace the beds lost at the soon-to-be-closed Community Hospital shelter has received mostly positive feedback.
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Photos: Thunder Thursday returns to kick off Grand Prix weekend
Race fans gathered to watch all the motorcycle stunt shows, pit stop competitions and antique car displays that have made the evening event a local pastime for the last decade.
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Man caught filming in CSULB bathroom said he had illicit videos from ‘all over campus,’ police say
The 22-year-old CSULB student said he’d been spying on people for years and had amassed hundreds of videos of people changing, showering or using the bathroom, according to police’s account in a search warrant recently obtained by the Long Beach Post.
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Raises bring workers at 2 Long Beach hotels up to at least $22 an hour
Employees at two hotels in Downtown Long Beach are celebrating $4 per hour raises and other benefits that union representatives hope to spread to thousands of other hospitality workers across the region in ongoing contract talks.