The Long Beach plant where Boeing workers not so long ago built their last 717 passenger plane is in escrow and will become “the largest independent [film] production facility in the world.”
That’s according to the company buying the property, Long Beach Studios, LLC, and also today’s Press-Telegram, which chronicles the ongoing purchase in a three-bylined [...]

Testimony yesterday in the ongoing lawsuit brought against Long Beach Unified School District by a group of parents of female gymastics students suggested Wilson High didn’t have to tear up the tumblers’ practice area to create an all-purpose fitness room.
As the Press-Telegram’s Kevin Butler reports, Wilson planned to remodel the gymnasts’ practice room to help [...]

Wilson High Title IX lawsuit headed to court next month
Now we know: the parents of a group of Wilson High School gymnastics students will definitely be squaring off against Long Beach Unified School District in court Feb. 19.

Title IX complaint could reach trial next month
The Title IX lawsuit against Long Beach Unified School District is back in court after the holidays.
According to Kevin Butler in this morning’s Press-Telegram, U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess is expected to rule in the next few days on a lawsuit brought by the parents of a [...]

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 return of Robert Avila
What’s going on today? Happy kid photos in the Press-Telegram–where happy kid photos are prized even above happy dog or fluffy kitty photos. They’re like gold down there–gold, in digital form. (Reminds me, where’d I put my Krugerrands?)
This time, it’s the P-T story on the kidnapping–and eventual return–of two-year-old Robert Avila. [...]