Wilson High School got a similar threat a short time after Poly but did not need to be locked down, a school official said.
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Major swath of North Long Beach will close to cars for open-streets event and Veterans Day celebration
Long Beach decided to combine the two events for a major celebration in Houghton Park that will also take over Atlantic Avenue and Artesia Boulevard.
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Water main break floods streets, cuts service to homes in Bixby Knolls area
Many residents in Cal Heights, Los Cerritos and Bixby Knolls reported low pressure or no water service at all this morning.
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Police arrest suspect after hours-long search through apartment’s attic
Police were evacuating apartments and trying to close in on the suspect who was reportedly moving around in an attic crawlspace.
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Things to do in Long Beach this weekend — including a boozy Halloween Hootenanny and Downtown art walk
The following list is a curated roundup of weekend events in Long Beach published every Wednesday on the Hi-lo and Long Beach Post. Have an event to share? Email [email protected] with “Things to Do” in the subject line. As Hispanic Heritage Month nears an end and the Halloween season revs up, this weekend’s events in […]
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5 dead in Catalina Island plane crash
The small plane had just left Catalina Airport in Avalon when it went down.
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He’s a professor, magician — and winner of an elusive international award
Christopher Bange won the Karrell Fox Comedic Excellence Award, which the International Brotherhood of Magicians had not granted to a magician for 18 years.
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Man injured in explosion suffered severe burns, wife says
The man injured in an explosion on Monday had taken the day off from work to recover from a father-daughter cycling marathon the day before, his wife said.
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Long Beach’s Rocket Lab snags NASA contract to bring rocks from Mars back to Earth
The work is part of an ongoing international effort to study whether life ever existed on Mars, and potentially pave the way for human exploration of the “red planet.”
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School safety officer sentenced to 3 years in shooting death of Long Beach teen
Eddie Gonzalez, 54, received the lower end of the sentencing range of three years, which he has already served through a combination of jail time and electronic monitoring.