California is poised to give up on “curing” gays and lesbians. Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, introduced AB 2199 to strike a section of a 1967 law requiring the state to seek a cure for homosexuality. “We need to blot it out,” she said in a news release
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Long Beach considers ballot prop. to tax marijuana
The Long Beach City Council is considering putting a measure on the November ballot that will tax medical marijuana collectives at the rate of 5 percent.
Man who kept body on ice in California is deported
Investigators who searched the convicted drug dealers’s at a NewPort Beach hotel found the body of Monique Trepp, 33, in a plastic box filled with dry ice. Acquaintances said she had died of an accidental drug overdose nearly a year earlier.
House ethics committee clears California lawmaker
The panel concluded a seven-month investigation into whether Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Long Beach, received preferential treatment from a lender, Washington Mutual Bank, when she foreclosed on her Sacramento property.
Sacto 9-1-1: Couple sentenced in Tahoe racially motivated beating
A white, middle-aged couple were each sentenced Tuesday in Sacramento to 18 months in federal prison in connection with their brutal beating of a man at a South Lake Tahoe beach because of his ethnicity and the color of his skin. Georgia Silva, 52, and her husband, Joseph Silva, 56, were found guilty in March by a jury of violating the civil rights of Vishal Wadhwa, a 40-year-old native of India, by interfering with his right to be in a public area. Wadhwa testified the Silvas set upon him in a picnic area adjacent to the beach on July 14, 2007, after he questioned them about a racial slur allegedly hurled by Georgia Silva at Ayesha Matthews, then Wadhwa’s fianc
Woman Freed From Car Crushed By Big Rig
A big rig and a car collided near Metro Blue Line tracks at 48th Place and Long Beach in South Los Angeles Friday, critically injuring a woman and prompting authorities to close the tracks.
CSU system to consider fee hike
California State University trustees will meet today to consider raising tuition at the nation’s second-largest public university system.
AM Alert: Farewell to furloughs?
Today marks the last “Furlough Friday” under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s current executive order mandating that state employees take three unpaid days off a month
CSU trustees will vote on 5 percent increases in student fees
California State University trustees are scheduled to vote next week on a proposal to raise student fees in the fall. The university is recommending that trustees raise fees by 5 percent, or $204 for a full-time undergraduate student. But officials in the chancellor’s office suggest that trustees consider raising fees again in November depending on the outcome of state budget negotiations
Frasier wins 300 hurdles to seal Jesuit’s state team title at CIF Track & Field championships
Jesuit High School coaches and athletes expected to make a run for the state team title here tonight. They calculated times, potential places. They crunched numbers and demanded to a man to give it every ounce in the final sporting event of the academic year.
