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- ADVERTISEMENT - Former Long Beach Councilman Steve Neal said the goal was to create a team of city government officials, nonprofits, religious groups, mental health professionals and former gang members to share how to prevent violence from continuing to spread across the streets. “We’d like to build a network here to connect the dots to address social ills, particularly gun violence,” he said. Overall, 381 shootings took place across the city in 2020. The previous four years had an ann...

- ADVERTISEMENT - “This is not normal,” Stark said, after two shootings occurred within earshot of his apartment on two consecutive nights in December. Since then, Stark has taken up listening to a police scanner and monitoring local Facebook groups to scrape together a better sense of what’s going on in his neighborhood. Because the Long Beach Police Department does not regularly release statistics about shootings, it’s been hard for Stark to quantify his gut feeling about a spike in s...

He told officers he was standing outside in the area of 10th Street and Myrtle Avenue when someone drove by, fired shots and fled.

- ADVERTISEMENT - In an article published Thursday on the education news site EdSource, ex-superintendent Carl Cohn argued that Gov. Gavin Newsom should bargain directly with statewide unions for teachers and classified staff, simplifying a tangled process of reopenings across the state that currently involves individual districts negotiating with their employees unions. That would mean temporarily suspending local collective bargaining, a radical step, but one that’s needed, Cohn argued. “...

On Jan. 7-8, 2021, the Long Beach Police Department arrested 4 suspects in connection with the Dec. 16, 2020 shooting death of 14-year-old Long Beach resident Arthur Touch. Through their investigation, detectives uncovered evidence indicating that a dispute took place between the victim and the four suspects. The dispute escalated to a physical assault which led to the victim being shot prior to the suspects fleeing the scene. “Any loss of life due to violence is unacceptable, but the murder ...

It was not immediately clear whether any of the individuals have attorneys. A CHP officer spotted the pair in a blue Acura Integra that was the subject of a be-on-the-lookout alert while heading south on Interstate 805 over Interstate 8, CHP said. The driver of the car refused to yield and fled through southern San Diego, National City and Chula Vista before pulling over on Camino De La Plaza at Interstate 5, just north of the border, CHP public affairs Officer Salvador Castro said. The brother...

Long Beach police have arrested four suspects in connection with the shooting death of a teenager.

- ADVERTISEMENT - Police learned of the shooting after paramedics were called to the 1400 block of St. Louis Avenue just before 8:50 p.m. Wednesday. Someone reported there was “a male who fell and appeared to be injured in the street,” police said. When medics arrived, they found the boy in the street near 14th Street with apparent gunshot wounds to his upper body, according to the LBPD. Dispatchers got no calls about gunshots in that area prior to the victim being found, police spokeswoman...