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Entries from LAist tagged with 'longbeachpresstelegram'

March 1, 2008

"the road home," by pink_fish13 via LAist Featured Photos Pool on Flickr Boy am I glad I don't live in this Torrance neighborhood, where a cache of machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, assault rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found in a house Friday. The residents may be terrorists, police say, but the owner of the weapons said he is just a collector. Do you think he also collects dead bodies in......

Continue Reading "Extra, Extra: Broken Homes and Broken Bones"

March 30, 2007

So here we are again. Familiar faces all around. 40 minutes. How will you be remembered? Making history or rewriting history? Henry has already laid out the LAist position for tomorrow's national semifinal matchup between Florida and UCLA. Of course, most of the sports world believes the Gators will outclass the Bruins. Vegas has Florida listed as 3 point favorites. Virtually every writer from every major sports publication (ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Sportsline) is picking the......

Continue Reading "More Mindless Chatter About the Game (aka Where Can I Get a Pair of Gator Boots?)"

July 2, 2006

LA Fire Department blog lets us know that "all fireworks, even the so-called "safe and sane" variety are illegal in the City of Los Angeles, and have been outlawed since World War II!" We hope you recognize that exclaimation mark. The problem is, that poster looks so cool we want to re-create it. And then blow it up real good. - LAFD Don't know what to listen to while you're not letting off fireworks?......

Continue Reading "Not since the war to end all wars"

February 3, 2006

In a California Supreme Court ruling yesterday, a judge has made it harder for a divorced, non-custodial parent to block their ex from moving away with the kids. These are now called "move-away" parents, which sounds like something an 8-year-old might have come up with. Will "custodial" be traded for "sleep-over" next? Yesterday port traffic slowed down as security guards walked out to protest a mass firing, the Long Beach Press Telegram reports. The......

Continue Reading "AM News: easier moves, slow shipping, choice"

January 10, 2006

The Daily News tunes in to Howard Stern's premiere satellite radio broadcast, counts the number of times he uses the f-word. Cal State Long Beach has a new president, F. King Alexander; the Long Beach Press Telegram checks in on his first day of school. Apparently he did not use the f-word. Pasadena middle school students have lunch with Samuel L. Jackson as part of a program that helps them make it to college.......

Continue Reading "Tuesday Newsday: the F-word"

November 10, 2004

Today's Long Beach Press Telegram provides chilling details about vandalism at Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. Staff writer Tracy Manzer wrote "Police captured three youths suspected of torturing and killing two docile sharks and a ray at the Aquarium of the Pacific after they returned with another boy to the scene of the crime to carry out more mayhem late Monday, an official said. Three 13-year-olds and one 14-year-old were taken into......

Continue Reading "Land Sharks"

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