Signal Tribune Newspaper

strong>CJ Dablo
Staff Writer
There’s an endless variety of people who board the trains at any one of Long Beach’s eight stations along the Blue Line. On a Sunday afternoon, Richard Vargas, 51, sat at the Willow Blue Line Station. He was on his way home to Koreatown after his sister dropped him off at the station. He [...]

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strong>Leonardo Poareo
Editorial Intern
Providing life advice as well as insight into governing a city, former Long Beach Mayor Beverly O’Neill spoke to Jahneen Nadeau’s third-grade class at Los Cerritos Elementary School last Tuesday morning.
O’Neill, whose grandniece is in the class, served as mayor of Long Beach for three terms, from 1994 to 2006. To get elected [...]

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Sean Belk
Staff Writer
The Signal Hill City Council voted 4-1 during its June 4 meeting to have the city attorney draft an amendment to the City’s election code, requiring all political action committees (PACs) and independent expenditure committees (IECs) that attempt to sway public opinion during election cycles file campaign financial statements with the city clerk.
Mayor [...]

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On June 2, 2013, at approximately 6:50pm, Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) officers responded to a traffic accident at Del Amo Boulevard and Elm Street.
According to the LBPD, arriving officers discovered that a motorcycle had hit a tree and exploded on impact, causing the tree, motorcycle and driver to catch fire.
Long Beach Fire Department responded, [...]

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