Signal Tribune Newspaper

Nick Diamantides
Staff Writer
With a 4.25 percent cut in state funding, Advocacy for Respect and Choice (AR&C) needs to raise approximately $200,000 from individual and corporate donations in order to provide the same level of services it has provided to intellectually disabled people for many years.
The AR&C facility is located on a four-acre site just east [...]

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Sean Belk
Contributing Writer
In recent months, the United States Postal Service started implementing changes to first-class mail service in which mail delivered outside of a specific service area now arrives in two days rather than overnight, according to postal service officials. The new standards come as a harbinger to major cutbacks to postal operations set to [...]

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CJ Dablo
Staff Writer
Representatives of used-car retailer CarMax haven’t forgotten about that $6 million CarMax paid Signal Hill’s former redevelopment agency (SHRDA) four years ago, long before California state officials and lawmakers decided to shut the redevelopment program down. In fact, they’ve made it clear they want it back.
It was an amount highlighted in a special meeting [...]

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On Sunday, Aug. 19, at approximately 5:17pm, Signal Hill Police Department (SHPD) officers were dispatched to the Long Beach Antique Mall, located in the 1800 block of Freeman Avenue, for a robbery in progress.
When officers arrived, an employee was detaining one of the suspects inside the store, and a second suspect was reported to be [...]

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