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• Flames shut down 710 Freeway after lawn mower sparks blaze

  17-08-2017 23:43
  
  All southbound lanes of the 710 Freeway were shut down after a lawn mower started a small brush fire Thursday afternoon, according to authorities.The blaze started near Del Amo Boulevard when the mower hit a rock in the brush it was cutting along the side of the freeway, Long Beach Fire Department Spokesman Jake Heflin said.
  
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• Police arrest suspected shooter after car chase in Long Beach

  17-08-2017 21:55
  
  Long Beach police arrested a suspected gunman after a short car chase Wednesday night, according to authorities.Officers learned about a shooting around 7:50 p.m. when someone flagged them down in the 400 block of Almond Avenue in Alamitos Beach, police said.The gunfire didn't hit anything, but the witness told officers the man who pulled the trigger was in a nearby car, Long Beach Police Department spokesman Sgt.
  
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• DUI checkpoint set for Friday night in Long Beach

  17-08-2017 21:20
  
  Long Beach police will operate a DUI checkpoint this weekend, looking for drunk, drugged and unlicensed drivers. Officers will run the checkpoint from 6 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday. Police did not specify exactly where the checkpoint would be located but said it would be somewhere in the department's east patrol division, which covers 24 square miles of Long Beach stretching as far west as Cherry Avenue and the Signal Hill border.
  
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• Investigation launched at Port of LA security after man plunges from gantry crane

  17-08-2017 19:29
  
  The Port of Los Angeles said Thursday it is reviewing its security protocols after a man driving a stolen SUV - who evaded police at least twice - breached a security gate into the West Basin Shipping Terminal, climbed a gantry crane, and eventually fell or jumped to his death Wednesday night.
  
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• Investigation launched at Port of LA after man falls or jumps from gantry crane

  17-08-2017 19:29
  
  The Port of Los Angeles said today it is reviewing its security protocols after a man driving a stolen SUV - who evaded police at least twice - breached a security gate into the West Basin Shipping Terminal, climbed a gantry crane, and eventually fell or jumped to his death Wednesday night.
  
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• Southern California rent costs soaring twice as fast as inflation

  17-08-2017 18:42
  
  The cost of renting one's residence in Southern California has doubled in 17 years - a jump practically twice as fast as the overall cost of living, according to the regional Consumer Price Index.Since the turn of the century to July, this measurement of local rents is up 102 percent vs.
  
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• 6 questions for Foster the People ahead of Summer Camp concert at the Queen Mary

  17-08-2017 16:51
  In Long Beach, alternative music fans of all ages can enjoy summer with a concert put on by radio station Alt 98.7 dubbed Summer Camp at the Queen Mary. The Aug. 19 concert features such bands as the Head and the Heart, HAIM, Bleachers, Sir Sly, Vance Joy, Magic Giant, Youngr, Beth Ditto and headliner Foster the People .
  
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• SWAT on scene in Bellflower where man is barricaded near Long Beach border

  17-08-2017 15:31
  BELLFLOWER - A sheriff's SWAT team was outside a Bellflower residence this morning, with a man barricaded inside.Authorities went to the 17600 block of Downey Avenue, right on the border of Long Beach, at 3:11 a.m. but it wasn't immediately clear why they were called to the residence.A SWAT team was summoned, and surrounding homes were evacuated, said Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez of the Sheriff's Information Bureau.
  
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• Carjacking suspect found dead after he broke into a Bellflower home, authorities say

  17-08-2017 15:31
  A sheriff's SWAT team found a carjacking suspect dead inside a Bellflower home this morning after a six-hour standoff, according to authorities.The man broke into the home after crashing his car, stealing another car and then crashing that one too around 3 a.m. near the Bellflower's border with Long Beach, sheriff's department officials said.
  
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• Alleged carjacker holed up in Bellflower home after two crashes found dead

  17-08-2017 15:31
  A sheriff's SWAT team found a carjacking suspect dead inside a Bellflower home this morning after a 6-hour standoff, according to authorities.The suspect was involved in two separate crashes around 3 a.m. before he broke through the house's window and holed up inside, sending a woman fleeing from the home on the
  
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• When it comes to racism and bigotry, California has had its own cross to bear

  17-08-2017 10:22
  For more than a century, Robert E. Lee Elementary School in Long Beach, bearing the name of the Confederate general, avoided scrutiny over its name. But pressure from the Legislature in 2015 prompted the school to change its name.
  
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• Juvenile gray whale spotted in Newport Beach, Port of LA as it journeys north

  17-08-2017 09:01
  
  A juvenile gray whale last seen in the shallow waters of Newport Harbor's Back Bay has left the harbor and was spotted leaving the Port of Los Angeles Wednesday, Aug. 16."The whale was seen near Cabrillo Beach late Wednesday," said Justin Viezbicke, marine mammal stranding coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  
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• The Latest: Nude suspect sits on Los Angeles harbor crane

  17-08-2017 06:09
  A suspected car thief has been perched high atop a Port of Los Angeles loading crane for well over an hour as police wait below, and he has now taken off all his clothes. The LAPD says the man is suspected of stealing an SUV from a San Bernardino car dealership Wednesday.
  
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• Judge will determine whether Seal Beach mass murderer will face death penalty

  17-08-2017 04:33
  
  In a Santa Ana courtroom Friday morning, Scott Evans Dekraai will learn whether he could face execution for the worst mass killing in Orange County history.After six years of delay and a series of controversies that rocked the county's criminal justice system, Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals has two options.
  
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• 5 things to know as Long Beach State/Angels great Jered Weaver waves good-bye

  17-08-2017 04:28
  
  Longtime Los Angeles Angels pitcher Jered Weaver, known for his laid-back surfer-dude manner and wicked ability to surprise hitters with precise pitch placement, announced his retirement from pro baseball Tuesday after 11 years with the Halos and one last tour with the San Diego Padres.An acclaimed Long Beach State Dirtbag who's still a regular visitor and donor to the program, Weaver was among the Angels' most popular players since he elbowed his way into the starting rotation as a rookie sensa
  
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• Southern California immigrant rights organizers say they're familiar with white supremacist hatred

  17-08-2017 04:07
  
  Immigrant rights activists say what happened in Charlottesville is a wake-up call for people to condemn white supremacy in their communities."If you want to end white supremacy, let's start in our backyard," said Javier Hernandez, director of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice.Hernandez said the level of hate he saw in Charlottesville, Virginia - where three people died over the weekend when a large gathering of white nationalists and counterprotesters erupted in violence - is similar to
  
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• Man falls off crane, dies at Port of LA after car chase through Long Beach, Torrance

  17-08-2017 03:26
  
  A man who climbed a huge gantry crane at the Port of Los Angeles after he jumped from a stolen SUV at the end of a lengthy police chase fell to his death late Wednesday.#xa0;After an hours-long standoff, TV news reports showed the man had fallen to his death about 9:20 p.m.Earlier, the man had removed all of his clothing while perched atop crane 87, which skies more than 100 feet high inside the West Basin Shipping Terminal.
  
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• BREAKING: Man climbs crane at Port of Los Angeles after car chase through Long Beach, Torrance

  17-08-2017 03:26
  
  A man who evaded authorities twice in a stolen SUV on Wednesday wound up at the Port of Los Angeles, climbing a more than 100-foot high crane inside the West Basin Shipping Terminal.The incident is still unfolding on live television, with helicopters overhead. Authorities had yet to take the man into custody as of 6:30 p.
  
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• This oil company wants to swap land to drill on wetlands in southeast Long Beach

  17-08-2017 02:58
  
  An oil company's plans that may result in new oil production in southeast Long Beach - as well as the potential restoration of existing oil fields being restored to more natural conditions - are scheduled to receive a public review Thursday evening.Long Beach Planning Commission members will take up a proposal during their Thursday evening meeting concerning the future of four plots of land inside, and near, the Los Cerritos Wetlands.
  
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• Rent burden in Los Angeles, Orange County ranked nation's worst; Inland Empire 17th highest

  17-08-2017 01:34
  
  The rent check hurts in Southern California.The typical renter in Los Angeles and Orange counties started 2017 paying the nation's biggest slice of their household income to the landlord, while Inland Empire tenants had the 17th highest rent burden.That's according to online property tracker Zillow's measurement of rent affordability.
  
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• Developer begins construction of 5-story affordable complex in downtown Long Beach

  17-08-2017 01:26
  
  The construction of Beacon Apartments in Long Beach will result in both the presence of a visually-appealing structure at the northern end of downtown Long Beach and an expansion of Century Villages at Cabrillo's services to the needy, developers said."The development is clearly going to transform this intersection with iconic architecture, but also, and perhaps most importantly, it's going to help address some of the most pressing needs of our community's most vulnerable residents, including bo
  
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• Blaze burns at homeless encampment along 405 Freeway in Long Beach

  17-08-2017 01:03
  
  Firefighters doused a brush fire that was sparked at a homeless encampment along the 405 Freeway in Long Beach Wednesday afternoon, according got authorities.The blaze began just before 2 p.m. on the southbound side of the 405 near Cherry Avenue, Long Beach Fire Department spokesman Jake Heflin said.
  
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• The renderings of Queen Mary Island are dazzling - but ship is nowhere to be found

  17-08-2017 00:15
  
  Nobody likes other people's dreams. Every office has a person who comes in to work and immediately gives the details of a nocturnal escapades in which "for some reason I was, like, on a flying dog and we landed on a palm tree which turned out to be a slide in a water park somehow and Matt was there with my grandfather and they were talking in French or some weird language and I was all embarrassed because I'd forgotten to put my clothes on.
  
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