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Three Arrests Made in Murder-For-Hire Plot

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Long Beach — On Nov. 18, Long Beach Police Department officers announced the arrest of three suspects in a premeditated murder plot, which almost killed a 62-year-old woman.

At about 9:20 p.m. Oct. 11, LBPD responded to a report of a screaming person near 69th Place and Ocean Boulevard. When officers arrived, they found the woman severely beaten in her home. She was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. The initial prognosis was that she may not survive.

Initially, it appeared the incident may have been a home invasion robbery. However, detectives discovered evidence that the incident was murder-for-hire plot that targeted the woman and that the plotters were her family members. Through the course of the investigation, detectives learned that the victim’s daughter, 40-year-old Holly Ramos, had been arrested in Monterey County, California on child endangerment and narcotics related charges. As a result, Ramos’ two children, ages 2 and 4, were taken from her and her husband, 40-year-old Frank Haverly, also from Monterey County, and placed into foster care.

At that time, the victim began the process with the Department of Children and Family Services to become a foster parent to her grandchildren.

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Website With Relaxed Parking Enforcement Information Announced

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Website With Relaxed Parking Enforcement Information Announced

LOS ANGELES— On Nov. 20, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that the city will begin posting online information about relaxed parking enforcement on streets that won’t be cleaned as scheduled.

On occasion, some streets are not cleaned during the time posted on “no parking” signs. When that happens, the Bureau of Street Services will post on its website,bss.lacity.org, the routes not being swept that day and the Department of Transportation will not issue street sweeping citations on those routes.

Garcetti Announces Nuclear Detection Halo Grant

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Garcetti Announces Nuclear Detection Halo Grant

LOS ANGELES — On Nov. 19 Mayor Eric Garcetti, the Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office and the Los Angeles/Long Beach Urban Areas Security Initiative Approval Authority members announced $11.4 million in federal funds for a regional nuclear and radiological detection system.

Known as the “Securing the Cities” program, the grant will be used to purchase equipment to create a nuclear and radiological detection ring around the Los Angeles area. The grant will also create the Southern California Radiological Intake Center which will collect and analyze data and coordinate a regional response. The center will be located in the Los AngelesEmergencyOperationsCenter. The LA/Long Beach region may be awarded up to $30 million for the program within the next five years.

Hamlet Performed with Grace, Neatness

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By John Farrell, Curtain Call Writer

It takes guts to present Shakespeare’sHamlet, a play that is both a daunting challenge and one of the finest works in the English language.

It takes even more courage to present it as your first local performance.

TE San Pedro Rep, the new theater company on 7th Street took on that challenge.

Hamlet is the first play they have presented in San Pedro since moving to the community a few months back. They have made a credible success of it in their small but effective theater, just across the alley from the Little Fish Theatre. (On Friday night both theaters were open for business: a good sign for the local community.)

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Unidentified Odor Causes Sickens Carson Workers

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Unidentified Odor Causes Sickens Carson Workers

Several people were complained of irritation and coughing spells as a result of a foul odor reported at about 9:16 p.m. Nov. 18, near the Brookville International packing plant in Carson, Los Angeles County Fire Department officials said.

While there only was about 25 people were working at the warehouse on the 20900 block of Maciel Avenue, 69 people from the surrounding area were evaluated. Only 13 of those people were treated in area hospitals, all of whom were released the same night.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department’s HAZMAT were called to investigate. But as of the posting of this brief, HAZMAT has not yet determined the cause or the origin of the odor.

 

 

Space and Substance Makes Its Way to CSUDH

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Space and Substance Makes Its Way to CSUDH

By Andrea Serna, Arts and Culture Writer

Old friends Craig Antrim and Ron Linden are coming together to present Space and Substance, a contemporary and abstract exhibit at the University Art Museum in Cal State Dominguez Hills.

The two artists have distinctly divergent styles, creating a captivating pairing.

“I chose them because their work goes perfectly together,” said curator and gallery director Kathy Zimmer. “Craig’s work is very spiritual and Ron’s work is wiry and tough. Many of Ron’s paintings are delicate and fragile with an inner toughness.”

The contrast of the intellectualism in Linden’s work and the spiritualism in Antrim’s, melds the show.

Antrim is a graduate of Claremont Graduate University. His work is in the collection of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Cocoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. His two-dimensional pieces take on the appearance of a third dimension through his ability to layer and score his canvases. Much of his work speaks to a favorite subject of spirals, symbols and earth elements. His fascination with symbology runs throughout his work.

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The Ghost of John F. Kennedy:

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Shadows of doubt and skepticism

James Preston Allen, Publisher

Fifty years ago come this Nov. 22, is the dark anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, which took place in Dallas, Texas’ Dealey Plaza. A lot of dredging up the past has already begun. The doubts and suspicions of this seminal historic act for the Vietnam War generation has cast a question mark over our nation ever since.

In the coming days, we will be treated to a series of documentaries recounting the events, reinforcing the conclusions of the Warren Commission report that the assassination was carried out by “lone gunman” Lee Harvey Oswald, while others assert the assassination was the result of a larger conspiracy involving more than one assassin. Will the truth ever be told for certain?

All I can say is that after all these years, I still find it very hard to write about this national tragedy, one in which the whole nation grieved for the loss of its symbol of youthful optimism. It was perhaps the last time, since the death of President Franklin Roosevelt, that we grieved as nation for a single person.

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Foster Wants to Give Fields The Boot

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Foster Wants to Give Fields The Boot

On Nov. 19, the Long Beach City Council will consider a request by Mayor Bob Foster seeking support for removing Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners President Thomas Fields from his position.

The agenda item would require at least 6 to 9 vote.

On Nov. 11, the Long Beach City Clerk’s office published Mayor Bob Foster’s recommendation for the removal of Thomas Fields as president of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, while Fields was out of the country, on a two-week trip around Asia with port executive staff.

Fields, advertising entrepreneur, served on several city commissions before Foster appointed him to the 6-year term in the Harbor Commissioner.

While he did not state a reason for his recommendation, Foster, who appointed Fields in 2009, indicated that Field’s travel was among many reasons why he is asking for his removal. Budget Oversight Committee Chairman, Councilman Gary DeLong, questioned Fields’ travel spending, including two trips taken without port staff.

In September, the city council limited harbor commissioners to $40,000 in travel spending, as a result. City Auditor Laura Doud is reviewing the 12 trips that the Budget Oversight Committee scrutinized.

Fields spent $77,196.37 on eight overseas trips from Oct. 29, 2011, to June 1 this year, while prior presidents spent considerably less, — at least half on travel, public records show.

Fields reportedly claims that his removal attempts have more to do with his support of the relocation of the port’s headquarters, which was deemed unsafe in the event of an earthquake, to the WorldTradeCenter.

Another point of contention with the mayor is the selection process of a new executive director. The Port of Long Beach hasn’t had a permanent executive director since June, when Chris Lytle resigned after 18 months on the job.

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Location:333 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach

Officers Shoot Woman with Replica Handgun

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Officers Shoot Woman with Replica Handgun

Long Beach — On Nov. 16, Long Beach Police Department officers shot a woman waving a replica handgun near 3rdStreet and Long Beach Boulevard, officials said in a released statement.

Long Beach resident Adeline Arroyo, 32, was booked for displaying a replica firearm in the presence of a police officer. She remains at a local hospital, where she is being treated.

Police officers arrived at the scene at about 9:50 a.m., responding to several calls reporting that there was a woman with handgun near the U.S. Post Office in downtown Long Beach.

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West Niles Virus Kills in Long Beach

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West Niles Virus Kills in Long Beach

Long Beach — On Nov. 18, Long Beach Public Health Officer Dr. Mitchell Kushner announced that a resident died due to complications associated with West Niles Virus,— a first for the city since 2004.

The resident, whose name was not released, was hospitalized in October. The resident was in his mid-70s and lived on east side of Long Beach.

Long Beach has reported six human cases to date in 2013. There have been eight West Niles Virus-related fatalities in Los AngelesCounty this year. Statewide, there have been 349 human cases reported, including 13 fatalities, as of November 12, 2013.

To reduce the risk of exposure to the virus, Dr. Kushner is advising residents to take the following precautions:

  • Avoid mosquito-infested areas, especially at dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most active.
  • Mosquitoes breed in standing water. Eliminate standing water on your property by dumping or draining water in neglected ponds, birdbaths, fountains, buckets, old tires or anything that can hold water. Dumping or draining water will interrupt the mosquito life cycle.
  • Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants if you plan to be outdoors at dawn or dusk.
  • Use mosquito repellant containing DEET, Picaridin, or Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus. Residents should follow instructions on the label. Consult with your child’s pediatrician for appropriate concentrations of DEET to be used on children under the age of 2.
  • Keep tight-fitting screens on doors and windows to prevent mosquitoes from entering homes and check to make sure your window screens are in good condition.
  • Clean and chlorinate swimming pools and drain water from pool covers.
  • Limit the watering of lawns and outdoor plants to twice a week to avoid run off to gutters and around sprinklers.
  • Report dead birds and dead tree squirrels to the California Department of Health Services

Details: (877) 968-2473 or online at www.westnile.ca.gov.

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