LONG BEACH - Long Beach Opera announced its interim artistic advisors, Yuval Sharon who worked with opera leadership to plan the 2021 season. He will also act as director for one of the season’s productions. Long Beach Opera is set to announce it’s 2021 season this upcoming April and will continue to work as the artistic director for his compa
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District Attorney Jackie Lacey has asked a judge to dismiss and seal the records of some 66,000 marijuana-related convictions for about 53,000 individuals dating back to 1961. Lacey announced the move Feb 13, about 10 months after she first pledged to erase the cases. A nonprofit group, Code for America, worked with LA County and four other
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SAN PEDRO — On Feb.8, The Port of Los Angeles and Harbor residents honored Los Angeles Harbor Commission vice president and labor leader Dave Arian, with a portion of Miner Street south of 22nd Street in San Pedro to be renamed
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CARSON — On Feb. 3, Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán called for a full FBI investigation into those who sent a public fraudulent notice about the coronavirus centered in Carson. Barragán said that the misinformation that was spread was irresponsible and calls for a full-scale
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By Mark Friedman, Reporter Filling a decade-long gap in the existence of a Los Angeles-based committee that advocates normalization of relations with Cuba and an end to the blockade and embargo, nearly 30 participants, overwhelmingly Latinx, youth, students and young workers met in Hawthorne, Ca. February 1. The initiati
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By Greggory Moore, Contributing Writer Let’s be frank: Mayor Robert Garcia’s annual State of the City events are formulaic affairs. Each year there are musical numbers and statistics aplenty and each year we’re assured that things in Long Beach are great and getting greater. On Jan. 14, Garcia
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LOS ANGELES — Forty-four patients were evaluated from four schools in Los Angeles County after an aircraft released fuel due to mechanical issues Jan. 14.
The incident took place at about 12 p.m. that day, when Delta Flight 89, which was scheduled to travel from LAX to Shanghai, reported a mechanical issue shortly af
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Los Angeles—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Jan 14, unanimously approved a plan proposed by Supervisor Janice Hahn to use a vacant County building in San P
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Story and photo by Raphael Richardson
