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Jan 9, 2025 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Fernando Haro |Brandon Richardson |Anthony Pignataro
Wildfire Here's a list of Long Beach businesses and organizations offering support for wildfire victims From discounted hotel room rates and free food to donation collections, Long Beach is stepping up to assist its neighbors throughout the county. Donations for wildfire victims are being collected at RightMealz, located at 422 E. Fourth St. Thursday, Dec. 9, 2025. Photo by Brandon Richardson. Become a Watchdog today.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Fernando Haro |Maya-Claire Glenn |Brandon Richardson |Jackie Rae
Become a Watchdog today. Sign up to get the latest from Long Beach's independent, journalist-owned newsroom in your email. — or sign up with — The family of 38-year-old Brandon Boyd is accusing the Long Beach Police Department of negligence and a lack of compassion after officers fatally shot Boyd on Nov. 19. According to the LBPD, Boyd pulled a firearm during the encounter, prompting officers to open fire. During a Nov.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Fernando Haro |Kate Karp |Maya-Claire Glenn |Brandon Richardson
Become a Watchdog today. Sign up to get the latest from Long Beach's independent, journalist-owned newsroom in your email. — or sign up with — After a decade as president of Cal State Long Beach, Jane Close Conoley announced Monday that the 2024-2025 academic school year would be her last. Conoley stepped into her role as the seventh — and first woman — president of the university in July 2014 after serving as interim chancellor of UC Riverside.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Fernando Haro |Alicia Robinson |Brandon Richardson |Maya-Claire Glenn
After a spring semester that saw mass protests and encampments at universities across the country in response to the ongoing conflict in Gaza, students and faculty of the California State University system received an email last week outlining on-campus protest guidelines. “Institutions of higher education have a special obligation to encourage and support the free expression of ideas, values, and opinions, even where they may be unpopular or controversial,” the Aug. 22 email reads.
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May 21, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Brandon Richardson
Dozens of students, faculty and their supporters marched from Lincoln Park to the Cal State University chancellor’s office in Downtown Long Beach on Tuesday to demand the system divest from defense contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin amid Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza and occupation of the West Bank. Protesters briefly blocked westbound traffic on Ocean Boulevard and southbound traffic on Golden Shore Avenue around 10:40 a.m. as they marched, followed closely by Long Beach police.
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May 20, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Brandon Richardson
Members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies flocked to Downtown Sunday for the 41st annual Long Beach Pride parade and festival. Thousands gathered along Ocean Boulevard to watch the historic parade and then moved to Marina Green park for day two of the festival to eat, watch live performances and, of course, dance.
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May 8, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Brandon Richardson
More than 100 Cal State Long Beach students and faculty walked out of class Wednesday afternoon, reaffirming their demands that the university divest from Israel and defense contractors such as Boeing. The demonstration, organized by Students for Justice in Palestine-Cal State Long Beach, comes less than a week after hundreds gathered on campus for a peaceful march in support of Palestinians in the ongoing war in Gaza. The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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May 5, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Brandon Richardson
Long Beach police are asking for the public’s help finding an at-risk 74-year-old man who went missing Saturday morning. The man, Henry Folse, was last seen in front of his home on the 700 block of Olive Street near Downtown on Saturday at 9 a.m., according to the Long Beach Police Department. Folse, a Black man, is 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighs 168 pounds and has gray hair and brown eyes, LBPD said. He was last seen wearing a gray and purple Lakers hat, a gray jacket, a blue shirt and blue jeans.
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May 1, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Brandon Richardson
Dark Harbor’s band of monsters and freaks will once again cast a shadow over the historic Queen Mary this fall. After a four-year hiatus, the cult-favorite event will run on Long Beach’s haunted ocean liner from Sept. 20 through Nov. 2, ship and city leaders announced Tuesday night. “It is truly a milestone moment for the ship and for the city,” said Brett Bertolino of Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group, the company organizing Dark Harbor.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
lbwatchdog.com | Brandon Richardson
Long Beach homicide detectives are asking the public to help identify the suspect in the murder of 17-year-old Briana Soto last month. During a press conference Tuesday, Long Beach Police Department Chief Wally Hebeish released footage captured the night of the incident. The video shows the suspect, a man in dark clothes with a mask over his face. “We are requesting our community’s help to identify the suspect responsible for committing this horrendous crime,” Hebeish said in a statement.
