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Topic Archive: Long Beach
Two Long Beach city council members marched with Press-Telegram workers outside the beleaguered newspaper's offices yesterday. P-T, LB Report Also in Long Beach: Surgeons say...
Posted March 25, 2008 09:24 AM
Just fyi, this is the day that heart surgery is scheduled at Children's Hospital for Davik Teng, the 9-year-old girl from rural Cambodia who was...
Posted March 24, 2008 12:53 AM
Writing as an alum of the Long Beach Press-Telegram, author and journalist Dennis McDougal bemoans the paper's downgrade in a Sunday Opinion piece for the...
Posted March 23, 2008 10:31 PM
The headline above is the first line of Dr. Mauricio Heilbron Jr.'s Op-Ed piece in today's Long Beach Press-Telegram. The boy is the 11-year-old who...
Posted March 18, 2008 04:20 PM
An editorial in today's Long Beach Press-Telegram admits to challenges ahead, but says some of the fears about the paper's future have been overblown. Excerpt:...
Posted March 7, 2008 09:25 AM
Long Beach resident and LA Observed reader Ron Schweitzer sent a letter to the Press-Telegram explaining why the latest cuts there pushed him into becoming...
Posted March 6, 2008 12:27 PM
In his first column since the newspaper he has headlined for 30 years was decimated, "Mr. Press-Telegram" Tom Hennessey took a deep breath and railed...
Posted March 2, 2008 07:51 PM
I'm told by a staffer that the positions of publisher and managing editor were eliminated today at the Long Beach Press-Telegram, along with the copy...
Posted February 29, 2008 02:59 PM
Long Beach Press-Telegram reporter Greg Mellen and photographer Jeff Gritchen are in Cambodia covering the effort to bring DaVik Teng to the U.S. for heart...
Posted February 12, 2008 11:43 PM
In a piece on semi-retiring Long Beach columnist Tom Hennessy, the District Weekly's Dave Wielenga says the Press-Telegram is losing local control in the consolidation...
Posted December 13, 2007 11:57 AM
Remember the murder last year in Long Beach of off-duty Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Maria Cecilia Rosa? She was apparently surprised by two guys...
Posted December 11, 2007 11:40 PM
Rich Archibold, editor of the Long Beach Press-Telegram, announces the advent of the pages that his paper will now share with the Daily News in...
Posted October 30, 2007 12:09 AM
Skies are clear of clouds over Southern California, but smoke and ash are obscuring the air in many areas. Here's the scene at the Port...
Posted October 24, 2007 10:26 AM
Rumors circulating in the L.A. Newspaper Group newsrooms talk of the papers and their staffs eventually being mashed into one universal operation with cookie-cutter front...
Posted August 15, 2007 11:12 PM
Kent Couch of Oregon flew 193 miles on a lawn chair attached to helium balloons, emulating the startling 1982 flight over San Pedro by the...
Posted July 11, 2007 08:43 AM
A couple of LAO readers emailed to say they couldn't find today's premiere issue of The District Weekly anywhere around Long Beach. But apparently it...
Posted April 11, 2007 11:02 PM
Now we know why all those OC Weekly resignations have been coming so fast. Several of the departed are joining former Weekly editor Will Swaim...
Posted March 12, 2007 05:22 PM
Dave Kuta, publisher and president of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, was moved across the Los Angeles News Group seating chart and just announced down...
Posted February 23, 2007 11:53 AM
The now-18-year-old girl got probation and community service like the others, but did not receive sixty days of house arrest. She told the judge she...
Posted February 6, 2007 12:48 PM
Judge Gibson Lee gave four more girls convicted in the Halloween attack the same sentence as those juveniles he sent home last week: probation, 60...
Posted February 5, 2007 01:09 PM
Four of the African American juveniles found guilty of attacking three white women in a Halloween mob were sentenced to probation and house arrest for...
Posted February 2, 2007 06:15 PM
Long Beach city hall and the city's main library were shut down for the day after a worker reportedly drilled through a main power line,...
Posted January 31, 2007 11:36 AM
Allegations of felony assault against nine juveniles are found to be true, not true for the youngest accused. The hate crime allegations are also found...
Posted January 26, 2007 01:58 PM
Suspected gang members backed into and nearly totaled the car of a black woman who has been testifying for several days in the racially inflamed...
Posted December 6, 2006 02:11 AM
Harold Nelson is out as director of the Long Beach Museum of Art, replaced on an interim basis by former board president Ron Nelson...
Posted December 5, 2006 06:22 PM
A Halloween night attack on three white women by 20 to 40 blacks (according to the Press-Telegram) is causing a lot of community upset in...
Posted November 17, 2006 12:31 AM
It's been awhile since those mysterious smells wafted over Los Angeles, but Long Beach firefighters were dispatched this week to look for the cause of...
Posted August 25, 2006 12:16 PM
Things seem kind of cozy down in the second city. The newly elected mayor of Long Beach, Bob Foster, will be "officially sworn in" today...
Posted July 18, 2006 09:26 AM
For nine years, Rosie the arthritic bulldog has been part of the Belmont Shores scenery, riding in a little red wagon behind her owner. Well,...
Posted July 18, 2006 08:48 AM
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