As the Press-Telegram’s Tracy Manzer reports this morning, the alleged gunman in the Oct. 30 murder of Wilson Classical High School scholar Melody Ross entered a not guilty plea Monday in Long Beach Superior Court.

Per the Press-Telegram and LBReport.com, Long Beach Police Department announced Wednesday night that two 16-year-old boys have been arrested in the shooting death Friday night of Wilson Classical High School student Melody Ross.
As the P-T’s Tracy Manzer reports, one of the two is the gunman who shot and killed Ross and wounded two others following [...]

It’s two-and-a-half days since the tragic shooting Friday night after Wilson High School’s homecoming game, which claimed the life of 16-year-old Melody Ross, and here’s the latest as friends and family remember her, and police struggle to find the person responsible for her death:
The Press-Telegram and the Los Angeles Times report that police “seek leads” [...]

A City Hall part-timer arranges a rare sit-down that could generate a break in an unsolved gang-related homicide
Finding new graffiti and calling it in to city removal crews; monitoring registered sex offenders; walking miles of unpaved alleys; getting to know the local gangbangers—that’s just part of the job description for Long Beach City Council field [...]

Snoop Dogg, Super Bowl champ Willie McGinest give time and money to help pay for a Kroc Center. What’s next? Raising the last $17 million
The volume on the tape recorder had to be turned up all the way to catch some of what he was saying, but multimedia star Snoop Dogg and three-time NFL Super [...]

Snoop Dogg talks to Councilman Dee Andrews about giving back to Long Beach
He wasn’t there to bemoan the possible loss of our concretinous Main Library if it closes due to budget cuts, but rapper-actor-football coach Snoop Dogg spent more than two hours Friday in the library’s Admiral Room, considering ways to give back to Long [...]

P-T editorializes the Gene Rotondo ATM-parking saga
Belmont Shore restaurateur Gene Rotondo’s problems with the ATM at his newly-renovated and reopened Legends sports bar have been well-documented in the Press-Telegram.
It’s just interesting, sometimes, to take a step back and consider what it’s all about–and to wonder how much we’d care about all this if, say, Rotondo [...]