Found this CNN item linked on Jezebel, about 17-year-old Poly High sophomore Xochitl Parra, who walked four blocks to St. Mary Medical Center after giving birth to an 8 pound, 3 ounce baby—with the baby still attached to her.
Parra did not call 911 because the home phone was disconnected, and she did not want to [...]

This ain’t Long Beach, but I found myself attracted to today’s Los Angeles Times story on a venerable L.A. Catholic school–Precious Blood Catholic School–for the school’s historic campus and its, er, sanguine moniker.
The place of learning survives virtually intact from its Eisenhower Era beginnings (Class of 1953 was the first) in a converted house at [...]

So, you hung out in the Jergins Tunnel Oct. 28, and you consider yourself a tunnel-ologist? You have no idea.
As the city studies how to restore what remains of the subterranean walkway which once led to the beach from Ocean Boulevard and Pine Avenue, it’s important to consider what other abandoned underground walkways may be [...]