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• Purifics Water wins $4.41M stormwater equipment contract in Long Beach

  23-05-2018 08:44
  LONG BEACH & LONDON, MAY 22, 2018 -- Purifics Water, Inc. of London, Ontario has been awarded a $4.41 million contract by the City of Long Beach, CA for the purchase of stormwater purification equipment. The treatment equipment to be provided by Purifics consists of its patented ceramic ultra-filtration system CUFA and photocatalytic oxidation process known as Photo-CatA .
  
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• Long Beach Cambodian-American chef Chad Phuong will show off his...

  23-05-2018 04:14
  "My grandmother used to sell Cambodian noodle soup in front of her house," recalled Long Beach Cambodian-American chef Chad Phuong, who will host an event Saturday to benefit the YMCA. Phuong's culinary passion started at a young age, helping his grandparents with food preparation in his hometown of Battambong, Cambodia.
  
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• Hotel workers union submits 46,000 signatures for Long Beach ballot measure to improve pay and safety

  23-05-2018 04:14
  Housekeeper Edna Vales shows her panic alarm issued to her by her employer at the Hilton hotel in Long Beach on Thursday, September 14, 2017. Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez has proposed a measure that would limit hotel employeesA' workloads and require hoteliers to equip female employees with panic buttons as protection against sexual harassment and assault.
  
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• Suspicious device evacuates Long Beach homes, shuts down streets

  23-05-2018 01:52
  A device found in the bed of a truck caused a scare that prompted an investigation by the bomb squad in Long Beach on Monday night and prompted closing off the street and evacuating homes. At around 9:30 p.m. someone reported to police there was a metal object in the vehicle.
  
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• Memorial Day observances planned this weekend around Long Beach area

  23-05-2018 01:52
  Since 1868, the United States has honored people who died while serving in the armed forces on Memorial Day, previously known as Decoration Day. This year's observance is Monday, May 28. Activities related to Memorial Day in the Long Beach area this weekend include: Forest Lawn Long Beach,1500 E. San Antonio Drive, hosts its annual Memorial Day event from 10 to 11 a.m. on Monday.
  
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• Long Beach 2018 Pride Parade

  23-05-2018 01:52
  The 35th Annual Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade makes it way down Ocean Blvd. on Sunday, May 20, 2018. The performer, Efran, entertains attendees of the 35th Annual Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade on Ocean Blvd. on Sunday, May 20, 2018.
  
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• 8 things to do at Southern California casinos for Memorial Day Weekend

  22-05-2018 21:03
  Billy Idol, shown here during the 2017 Rock-N-Roar Concert with Kings of Chaos at the 2017 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, will perform at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio over Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day is this weekend and Southern California casinos have a solid line-up of entertainment to get people in the mood for the summer season.
  
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• These are the acts youa re not going to want to miss at the Carpenter Center in Long Beach

  22-05-2018 18:48
  Argentinian ensemble Che Malambo will be among the nearly two dozen acts coming to the Carpenter Center this season. Photo courtesy Carpenter Center.
  
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• L.A. man gets 26-year prison term for role in synthetic drug ring...

  22-05-2018 13:50
  A Los Angeles man was sentenced Monday to more than 26 years behind bars for his role in a drug ring that imported a powerful synthetic opioid from China used to produce homemade pills that were sold in bulk across the nation. Christopher Bowen, 32, was found guilty by a federal jury in October of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute, and distribute narcotics, including a fentanyl analogue; a designer drug used in "bath salts"; ecstasy; and alprazolam, which is sold under
  
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• The Teke Sitdown: John Broadway

  22-05-2018 09:05
  The 2018 Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. TKE Leadership Academy is fast approaching. In support of this, we reached into THE TEKE Archives to re-share this great story.
  
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• Status quo versus change in East Long Beach City Council runoff

  22-05-2018 04:25
  In the most politically engaged district in Long Beach, the race for City Council hinges on whether the status quo of the previous four years should remain - or whether the district needs a change. The District 5 runoff between East Long Beach incumbent Stacy Mungo and former Harbor Commissioner Rich Dines has largely come down to a debate over how Mungo's record holds up to scrutiny, with the councilwoman defending and Dines criticizing her support for the controversial land-use element, the sp
  
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• Port of Long Beach awards scholarships to students, grants to organizations

  22-05-2018 04:25
  The Port of Long Beach awarded 39 Long Beach college and high school students $54,750 in scholarships to those interested in pursuing international trade and goods movement careers. Scholarship recipients were honored at the fifth annual Celebrating Education event, which was held at the Long Beach Marriott, May 14. The seaport is a gateway for trans-Pacific trade with 175 shipping lines which connects Long Beach to 217 other ports.
  
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• Ex-boyfriend of woman killed in Calif. spa explosion to remain behind bars

  22-05-2018 02:06
  Saying that he posed a possible flight risk and danger to the community, a federal judge on Monday ruled that the former boyfriend of a woman who was killed in an explosion at her Southern California spa should remain in custody without the possibility of bail. Stephen Beal of Long Beach has not been charged in connection with the explosion last week that killed Ildiko Krajnyak.
  
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• 111 Photos of the Beautiful People of Long Beach Pride

  21-05-2018 23:49
  The marine layer did not prevent the guys and gals of Long Beach, Calif., from dressing it up and taking it out onto the streets. Read more below.
  
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• What's not to like about the internet?

  21-05-2018 19:09
  Students quitely work on their projects at the YMCA Youth Institute in Long Beach on Friday, August 4, 2017. Many low-income children fall behind in school because they don't have internet access access at home.
  
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• Taco Bell wants to serve alcohol at Bluff Heights restaurant; Long Beach to consider protest

  21-05-2018 19:09
  Taco Bell wants to turn a Bluff Heights store into "cantina-style" restaurant that serves alcohol, but the city isn't so sure. The Long Beach City Council on Tuesday will consider filing a protest to a request for an Alcohol Beverage Control license for a Taco Bell currently located at 3125 E. Broadway, between Redondo and Temple avenues.
  
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• Fight for City Council District 7 gets ugly with accusations on both sides

  21-05-2018 19:09
  CouncilmanRoberto Uranga greets the crowd at a grand -opening ceremony on Saturday for the Restoration of Willow Springs Park Wetlands. The Wetlands Restoration Project is a 12-acre project within the 48-acre Willow Springs Park.
  
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• Deukmejian papers back in Long Beach where they belong

  21-05-2018 09:26
  To the casual visitor, they just look like a lot of cardboard boxes. Inside, they contain a treasure trove of California's late 20th century political history, courtesy of Long Beach's favorite son, former Gov. George Deukmejian, who died May 8 .
  
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• Long Beach's colorful 35th Annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade draws thousands

  21-05-2018 04:47
  In stark contrast to a gray Long Beach morning Sunday, Ocean Boulevard became a thundering and prismatic fanfare of LGBTQ pride as residents of all genders and cultures came together to continue 35-year-old tradition. "Gay, straight, black, white - same struggle, same fight," members of the Party of Socialism and Liberation chanted as others waving rainbow flags trailed behind.
  
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• Long Beacha s colorful 35th Annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade draws thousands

  21-05-2018 04:47
  In stark contrast to a gray Long Beach morning Sunday, Ocean Boulevard became a thundering and prismatic fanfare of LGBTQ pride as residents of all genders and cultures came together to continue 35-year-old tradition. "Gay, straight, black, white - same struggle, same fight," members of the Party of Socialism and Liberation chanted as others waving rainbow flags trailed behind.
  
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• South Bay History: Why Wilmington once had its own city hall

  20-05-2018 19:53
  The present-day Wilmington Municipal building at 544 N. Avalon Blvd. is home to the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce and the Wilmington Neighborhood Council. 2008 photo.
  
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• Late Wife Of Man Being Investigated For Aliso Viejo Explosion Died Mysteriously 10 Years Ago

  20-05-2018 10:50
  LONG BEACH - A decade before his ex-girlfriend was killed in what investigators say was a targeted explosion in Aliso Viejo Tuesday, Stephen Beal's wife died in what a coroner deemed a "mysterious case." Christine Beal's death in 2008 came a few weeks after she fell down a flight of stairs in their Long Beach home while carrying a heavy piece of furniture with her husband, 59-year-old Stephen Beal.
  
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• Long Beach council may censure Councilwoman Jeannine Pearce for conduct with former staffer

  19-05-2018 17:51
  Long Beach leaders will consider the rare move of censuring Councilwoman Jeannine Pearce for her conduct "that has reflected poorly on the City of Long Beach and raises questions of potential sexual harassment, conflict of interest and failure to adhere to the City's Code of Ethics." The late addition to next Tuesday's City Council agenda was brought by four of Pearce's colleagues on the council: Al Austin, Suzie Price, Daryl Supernaw and Dee Andrews.
  
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• Teen's killing reveals alleged ties to gang

  19-05-2018 15:29
  Police were out in force Monday working on the case of a 15-year-old Long Beach boy who was gunned down on a street corner Saturday night. While the Long Beach Police Department officially declined to release the motive for Jabari Benton's slaying Monday and officials were tight-lipped about the investigation, multiple sources close to the investigation said the victim's gang affiliation most likely had something to do with the shooting.
  
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• Join One of California's Oldest Pride Fests, in LBC

  19-05-2018 10:56
  When May heads our way, and we journey along to the middle of the month, a few fantastic events happen around Southern California. One? The jacarandas do their amazingly beautiful thing, with all of those purple blooms bursting all over.
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. oil rig count holds steady after six weeks of gains -Baker Hughes

  19-05-2018 06:51
  The U.S. oil rig count held steady this week after rising for six weeks in a row even as crude prices soar to multi-year highs, prompting drillers to extract record amounts of oil, especially from shale. FILE PHOTO: Oil rig pumpjacks, also known as thirsty birds, extract crude from the Wilmington Field oil deposits area where Tidelands Oil Production Company operates near Long Beach, California July 30, 2013.
  
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• Disputes emerge over money, raising questions in fatal Aliso Viejo explosion

  19-05-2018 02:46
  They met on a dating app in the summer of 2016. She was a skin care expert in her 40s who had recently filed for bankruptcy, he a widower who dabbled in acting and building model rockets.
  
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• Long Beach Pride: AHF Bus to Highlight Condoms as "Lifesaver" as STDs Skyrocket in California

  18-05-2018 22:38
  May 18, 2018--AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the largest global AIDS organization, is proud to join the LGBTQ community in celebrating the 2018 Gay Pride season through its participation in over two dozen Pride events across the country-in many locations, with its new "Lifesaver" buses wrapped with a lighthearted and colorful condom and Pride-themed ... (more)
  
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• Long Beach couple throws fundraiser for DACA student as part of Pride celebration

  18-05-2018 22:38
  A Long Beach couple is aiming to help an undocumented college student in need part part of their celebration of the Long Beach Pride Parade Sunday. The couple, who live off of Ocean Boulevard and Temple Avenue near the parade path, throw a party each year during the parade, and this year that party will help raise money for Cynthia Borda's tuition.
  
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• Long Beach architect Ed Killingsworth's designs celebrated Saturday

  18-05-2018 22:38
  A presentation and tour celebrating the work of Edward Killingsworth, Long Beach's most distinguished architect, will take place Saturday in events sponsored by the Historical Society of Long Beach. Julie Bartolotto, Historical Society executive director, said an illustrated presentation detailing Killingsworth's work in Long Beach and throughout the world will be given by Ronald Dean Lindgren, a partner in Killingsworth Stricker Lindgren Wilson Architects.
  
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• June 5 election: ballot measure asks Long Beach voters to weigh citya s financial priorities

  18-05-2018 18:29
  That's when voters will head to the polls for the statewide primary. And after marking off their choices for governor and a variety of other elected positions, residents will have to choose whether they want to change the city's constitution to allow officials to transfer surpluses from utilities - money provided by bill-payers - into Long Beach's general fund.
  
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• Wheel Big Experience Arrives at the Queen Mary

  18-05-2018 16:19
  Picture the Queen Mary , and summon to mind movement and length and distance, and you're bound to stretch your thoughts out in a forward direction, in the direction that a ship moves along the water. Or your mind might plummet downward in direction, because underneath that ship there's a whole lot of ocean, and that's always fascinating.
  
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• Exclusive: Dubai Aerospace in talks to place huge order for 400 jets

  18-05-2018 11:54
  Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, one of the world's largest aircraft lessors, is in talks to buy 400 jetliners from Airbus and Boeing and is prepared to expand its fleet through acquisition if talks fall through, its chief executive told Reuters on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: Logo of Airbus is pictured at the Airbus A380 final assembly line at Airbus headquarters in Blagnac, near Toulouse, France, March 21, 2018.
  
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• Tour 6 historic properties - and neighborhoods - at Long...

  18-05-2018 07:48
  Can a 1921 Craftsman bungalow be reborn as a light-filled Midcentury Modern home? Find out at the "Great Homes of Long Beach" architecture tour presented by the nonprofit preservation group Long Beach Heritage on June 3. The 17th annual home tour will highlight six homes in the historic Bluff Park, Los Cerritos, California Heights and Eliot Lane neighborhoods, including the updated Craftsman-meets-Midcentury Modern bungalow in Belmont Heights, shown above.
  
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• LGBTQ leaders in Long Beach honored at Equality Plaza wall

  18-05-2018 03:46
  RaAol A. AA orve speaks to the crowd during the 2018 Equality Plaza Induction Ceremony at the Harvey Milk Promenade Park Equality Plaza in Long Beach on Thursday, May 17, 2018. The Equality Plaza Honor Wall is unveiled during the 2018 Equality Plaza Induction Ceremony at the Harvey Milk Promenade Park Equality Plaza in Long Beach on Thursday, May 17, 2018.
  
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• How to help send Long Beach area kids to camp this summer

  18-05-2018 03:46
  Maggie, a fifth-grader at a Long Beach elementary school, said she was "really nervous" when she went to her first summer camp in the mountains last year. But, after a week at the YMCA's Camp Oakes in the San Bernardino Mountains, Maggie told a Y counselor, "I'm not nervous anymore now because I've made friends, and I had so much fun."
  
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• Calif. Bombing Victim's Ex-Boyfriend Arrested After Search of Home

  17-05-2018 23:39
  The ex-boyfriend of a woman killed in a medical building bombing was arrested on explosives possession charges in Long Beach. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for Today in LA on Thursday May 17, 2018.
  
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• Authorities arrest boyfriend and business partner of woman killed in day spa blast

  17-05-2018 23:39
  Authorities have arrested the boyfriend and business associate of a woman who was killed in an explosion that ripped through her Aliso Viejo day spa earlier this week. Stephen Beal, 59, of Long Beach, was arrested on suspicion of possessing an unregistered destructive device, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said Thursday.
  
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• Man arrested for allegedly having an unregistered destructive device...

  17-05-2018 19:19
  A Southern California man has been arrested on suspicion of having an unregistered destructive device amid the investigation into a deadly explosion at a day spa, the FBI said. But Stephen Beal, 59, has not been charged in connection with the Tuesday explosion that killed a day-spa owner at her Aliso Viejo, California, spa, federal authorities cautioned.
  
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• Summit in Long Beach to discuss economic equity, inclusion in the city

  17-05-2018 14:58
  That doesn't seem to be the case with the current booming economy, though, and the Everyone In movement is trying to do something about that. "It's all about economic inclusion," Vice Mayor and 9th District Councilman Rex Richardson said.
  
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• Investigations begin into mana s custody death in Long Beach

  17-05-2018 10:29
  A man who witnesses said got into a fight with bystanders after taking a woman's cellphone died after being briefly handcuffed by officers, Long Beach police said Wednesday. Officers were dispatched about 11:30 p.m. Monday to the area of Granada Avenue and Ocean Boulevard to investigate a report of a woman screaming, according to Long Beach police.
  
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• Man wanted on weapons charges is arrested in Long Beach after hour-long pursuit

  17-05-2018 06:09
  Long Beach police had a male suspect in custody after an hour-long pursuit through the West Division area of the city Wednesday, May 16, authorities said. About 3:35 p.m., officers spotted a man with a no-bail warrant for weapons charges near 10th Street and Long Beach Boulevard, Nancy Pratt, spokeswoman for the Long Beach Police Department, said.
  
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• Long Beach Pride Parade and Festival: Everything you need to know, including road closures

  17-05-2018 06:09
  Rose Holbrook-Lambert holds the Gay Pride flag at the beginning of the 2016 Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade in Long Beach CA. Sunday, May 22, 2016.
  
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