Long Beach CA

The grand opening of Snoop Dogg’s first brick-and-mortar business in his hometown of Long Beach, California, has been postponed due to safety concerns. The West Coast rapper’s team told KTLA 5 that the postponement follows the deadly May 1 shooting at the grand opening of Marathon Burger, a franchise tied to the late rapper Nipsey Hussle. The shooting hurt […]

A 13-year-old boy was killed after losing control of an electric motorcycle and crashing in Orange County Thursday night, police said. The Garden Grove Police Department said officers were alerted to the incident after receiving a call from Life360 reporting a possible traffic collision in the 13100 block of Magnolia Street near Larson Avenue at […]

For law enforcement in and around the Los Angeles area, the Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay is a major event and time-honored tradition. Each year, police departments and sheriff’s stations spend months raising the thousands of dollars it takes to send 20-runner teams to compete in the grueling, desert traversing, 120-mile relay race, which begins north of Baker and ends...

After hearing from protesting residents, the City Council rejected a proposal to add new cell towers.

A jury Thursday ruled in favor of the city of Los Angeles in a lawsuit brought by the parents of a teen girl accidentally shot by a Los Angeles police officer in a North Hollywood clothing and home accessories store in 2021. The 14-year-old girl, Valentina Orellana-Peralta, was killed Dec....

Man force-fed 14-year-old Adderall and made him prepare hundreds of items of clothing to be sold online, then abandoned him on the side of the freeway, police say – Image for illustrative purposes only (Image credits: Unsplash) Los Angeles County – Early last May, a 14-year-old boy vanished from his family for three days while ... Read more The post Los Angeles...

Federal and local law enforcement arrested 18 people and seized drugs in a sweeping operation targeting an alleged open-air drug market at MacArthur Park. Some local business owners praised the crackdown but criticized city leaders and called for an end to needle and pipe distribution programs. City officials defended public...

A man is dead after being attacked by another man, possibly with a hammer, in East Hollywood on Thursday night, police said. Officers responded to the area near Willow Brook and Virgil avenues at around 9 p.m. after receiving reports about two people fighting, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Loved ones are searching for a missing 16-year-old Southern California girl. Aniyah Cole, 16, was reported missing on May 7, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Cole, who is considered critically missing, was last seen walking in the 800 block of 173rd Street in Gardena.  She is a Black female who stands 5 feet […]

The562’s cross country and track & field coverage is sponsored by Joe Carlson & Debbie Hughes. More than 100 Long Beach entries from five different local high schools will compete in Saturday’s CIF Southern Section Track and Field prelims, most of them in the Trabuco Hills Division 1 prelim (as well as a group in Division 4 at Carpinteria High). The top qualifiers in each...