Last night in Long Beach, a confrontation turned dangerous when a verbal altercation between a man and a woman escalated into a stabbing on the 1900 block of Cedar Avenue, officers from the Long Beach Police Department responded to the incident at approximately 12:24 a.m., finding the victim with non-life-threatening injuries to the upper body; Long Beach Fire Department personnel swiftly transported the injured man to a local hospital, according to a statement from the LBPD.