Oil refineries in three area cities—Carson, El Segundo and Torrance—were among the top 10 emitters of greenhouse gases in 2008 in California, according to the state Air Resources Board, which just finished tabulating the toxins in the first-of-its-kind scorecard.
In third place, the BP Refinery in Carson in 2008 passed 4,570,475 metric tons of greenhouse gases.
In [...]

Long Beach police still don’t have a motive in the deaths of five people whose bodies were discovered early Sunday in a homeless encampment near the Santa Fe Avenue offramp from the southbound San Diego (405) Freeway.
But details are trickling out about some of the victims.

Fear don’t want no satisfaction
Fear were the American Stranglers—older, scarier, more technical and set instantly to pounce on punk as popular validation of the hard-ass rock ‘n’ roll they wanted to make anyway. Rattus Norvegicus is almost better than the Fall (depending on how many A-sides you’d like to stack against it) and Fear’s The [...]

Barbecued meats dominate most orders, with plates stacked with subtle spins on Korean galbi and bulgogi, Chinese char sui and the ever-present teriyaki. It’s a typical trio for any Hawaiian kitchen, but the galbi and bulgogi are both surprisingly good, worthwhile renditions that do not better dedicated Korean restaurants but do offer excellent approximations. For [...]

A piece of Hawaii at Back Home in Lahaina

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Back Home in Lahaina is touched with the kind of style that seems fit for only the most tropical tourist traps. There are street signs to guide diners between tables and some breezy bars of ukulele floating out into the dining room. But the [...]

That’s right: Congresswoman Laura Richardson’s (D-Long Beach) automotive hijinks apparently continued after she left Long Beach City Council in late 2006–failing, until recently, to pay the repair bills on her own BMW.
As the Daily Breeze’s Gene Maddaus reports today, upon arriving in Washington, D.C. last fall, Richardson promptly leased the most expensive car of any [...]

Whitey Littlefield–Long Beach beer baron philanthropist, who rose from delivering brew to owning a Budweiser distributorship with Frank Sinatra–is dead at 75.
We’ll tell you more about Mr. Littlefield in coming days–but it’s already becoming clear that, in the words of his close friend, restaurateur John Morris, “The guy’s had a life.”

With Super Tuesday behind us (not really) the Press-Telegram and LBPost.com tell us what some of you did after you voted: you went to Smooth’s Sports Grille to watch the results trickle in. And trickle. And trickle.
California’s presidential nominees are generally considered to be John McCain and Hillary Clinton, but as the Los Angeles Times [...]

Furutani for State Assembly, Randy Gordon vs. Michael Ellis gather, expel steam
Maybe it’s not quite accurate to call 55th Assembly District candidate Warren Furutani’s campaign a juggernaut–after all, this time last year he ran exactly the same race against then-Sixth District Councilwoman Laura Richardson and was sent packing. (That was a juggernaut.)