Coverage continues of the death Saturday night of alleged burglary suspect Deshoun Kenyon Torrence, 18, of Lake Elsinore.
The Press-Telegram, LBReport.com, and the Los Angeles Times are all in, and ask the question we’re all wondering: why he died.
There’s no real answer yet (The Los Angeles County Coroner is scheduled to perform an autopsy today) but [...]

As reported by the Press-Telegram, LBReport.com and the Los Angeles Times, here’s what’s been said thus far about the burglary suspect who died in police custody Saturday night.
He was Deshoun Kenyon Torrence, 18, of Victorville–and according to the Times‘ Victoria Kim, he “reportedly screamed for help as he was being detained by neighbors,” who allegedly [...]

Okay, we shouldn’t be saying this because they’re the competition and all, but here’s a perfect example of how to make us read–or not read–the Press-Telegram.
You may have seen it: a story by Kelly Puente with the headline “Driver arrested after vehicle plows into Norwalk liquor store.” That’s boring. The story’s okay–but the headline puts [...]

They ran out of garden burgers early at Tuesday night’s Beer & Politics forum–which pitted the truth-and-justice screeds of assembly candidates on one end of Gallagher’s Pub against the screams of basketball fans on the other–and late in the evening talk-show host Art Levine ran off with Theo Douglas’ three-quarters-full glass of Widmer Hefeweizen. Who [...]

Members of the three veterans groups who were told they couldn’t march in last year’s 11th Annual Long Beach Veterans Day Parade because they didn’t “fit the spirit of the parade”–Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace–now … fit the spirit of the parade.
Weird, huh? Actually, it’s pretty good [...]

Assistant City Auditor ogles new gig
As reported over the weekend by LBReport.com, and today by the Press-Telegram, one of the guys I toiled with 20 years ago at Poly High, the affable Alex Cherin–your 2004 candidate in the Seventh District city council race–may become the Port of Long Beach’s new executive officer to the board.

Bad air quality in Long Beach, and Kimora Lee Simmons
The fires still reign as the Press-Telegram’s top story today, though Kelly Puente has the local angle with a piece on air quality.
Elsewhere in the P-T, there’s more excitement: Kevin Butler writes about the Long Beach Unified School District superintendent banning teachers’ union leader Scott [...]

The City of Long Beach tries cutting back on water

Today’s top Press-Telegram story online? The fires whipped up in Malibu, Canyon Country and Agua Dulce by the Santa Ana winds. The top local story appears to be something by Kelly Puente about the wind. But keep reading; there’s local news downpage.