Live updates from the 2018 Long Beach Marathon. Start time is 6 a.m., Sunday Oct. 7 A bunch of brides just rode across the finish line #lbmarathon sorry for the fence in the shot – we’re waiting for marathon finishers on the other side. Soon! https://embed.scribblelive.com/js/jwflvplayer/player-licensed.swf The bike racers are just finishing up. @LongBeachPost #lbmarathon…
MALIBU — More than a dozen sheriff’s deputies Saturday combed Malibu Canyon with the aid of three helicopters after a park worker reported talking to a man who fit the description of a rifle-toting burglar spotted in the area last Sunday. Bloodhounds were being brought in to search the canyon south of the Malibu Creek…
Breed: Staffordshire terrier (blue nose) Age: 8 years Gender: Neutered male Duke’s story: Duke was rescued off the streets of Hawthorne. He was found, curled up in a ball, almost unrecognizable as a dog. He was living in deplorable conditions with no access to regular food or water. Upon arrival he was sick and emaciated,…
Breed: Miniature pinscher mixes Age: 5 months Gender: Spayed female, Cayenne; neutered male, Pepper Cayenne and Pepper’s story: These littermates were abandoned in a box, along with their mother, on the side of a road when they were only a few weeks old. They are typical puppies who will need some training, but both are…
Police are searching for an elderly woman who went missing in La Habra on Saturday afternoon. Mary Ann Newkirk, 84, was last seen wearing white and silver, polka-dot shirt with white pants. Police said she was possibly headed to a Ross retail store on West Imperial Highway in La Habra. She was not located there when…
Brightly-colored pinwheel flowers planted seeds of hope that a crushing disease can be defeated. The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Huntington Beach on Saturday, Oct. 6, raised $268,000, 20 percent shy of its $335,000 goal, although donations are being collected through the end of the month. Linda Sadeghi attended her first walk with Al Pugchino,…
It’s considered the Superbowl of SUP. The world’s best stand-up paddle athletes kicked off the Pacific Paddle Games at Doheny State Beach in big surf Saturday, Oct. 6, as a hurricane swell slammed the coast. The event brought about 400 paddlers – some elite competitors in the pro division and others in the open division – for…
If not for Nathaniel Ayers, I probably never would have met Jim Preis, a lawyer, and Vijay Gupta, a violinist. That’s the kind of journey it has been with Ayers, a homeless skid-row musician I met in 2005. He’s taken me places I’d never been to, like the White House, where he performed at the…
Montserrat Caballe, a Spanish opera singer renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, has died. She was 85. Caballe died early Saturday at Hospital San Pau in Barcelona, hospital spokesman Abraham del Moral told The Associated Press….
A high-ranking Cal State Long Beach administrator was placed on leave days after a former employee she was accused of having a romantic relationship with showed up “disgruntled” at her office, triggering a police search before he allegedly killed two relatives hours later in Compton. An Associated Students Inc. hiring committee was unaware that Jamie Jajuan Williams,…
