Cerritos Council rejects town center homes plan for 125 acre area
The Cerritos City Council rejected a Planning Commission plan to allow residential development in the 125 acre Town Center area. It ordered a nine week moratorium on the Loomfield and 18th Street office complex project while drafting an emergency ordinance to designate all land as regional commercial enabling mixed use by six parcel owners.
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Cerritos
Planning Commission
Tgmlex
Loomfield Avenue
18Th Street
Ken Brown
Ali Solimon
Insurance firm ordered to cover defamation defense
The liability insurer for Hawaiian Gardens was instructed to provide legal defense for Mayor Jack Myers Councilwoman Julia Sylva and City Administrator Jack Simpson in a defamation suit filed by Councilman Carlos Navejas. Navejas alleges the three made statements that defamed him and seeks damages.
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Hawaiian Gardens
Graham Titchie
Jack Myers
Julia Sylva
Jack Simpson
Carlos Navejas
Navejas
Navy site sets Armed Forces Voters Day in Long Beach
Voters day scheduled at Long Beach Naval Support Activity from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Includes entertainment, military voting counselors, and Los Angeles County deputy registrars. A spokesman said the event aims to remind personnel at the support activity and shipyard to participate in the November 2 general election. An Artesia nightclub gets six days to prove to the City council that live music does not unduly disturb neighbors. At Monday’s council meeting, El Paraiso night club’s trial period was set at 18701 Pioneer Blvd.
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Armed Forces
Long Beach
Naval Support Activity
Los Angeles County
Artesia
el Paraiso
Pioneer Blvd
Inquest Finds Death At Hospital A Suspect Homicide
A coroner's inquest ruled that 19 year old Mark Franklin Holcomb died at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk not by accident but at the hands of another person. The two day hearing heard conflicting testimony from attendants and autopsy results. Holcomb was found in a dormitory bed with a forehead laceration but no profuse bleeding on bedding. He died between 8 and 9 p.m. after last being seen alive near 10 p.m.
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Garden Grove
Metropolitan State Hospital
Norwalk
Los Angeles
Mark Franklin Holcomb
Rug Pulled From Under Thief At Cal Worthington Ford
Long Beach police report a youth tried to steal a pickup at Cal Worthington Ford on Bellflower Boulevard. guard Allen Buck halted the plan by pulling a carpet over a spiked grate and stopping the truck as the youth fled at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday.
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Cal Worthington Ford
Long Beach
Allen Buck
Bellflower Blvd
Buck
Los Alamitos Youth Dies After Struggle With Police
An 18 year old man, David Lee Manny of Los Alamitos, collapsed and died after a confrontation with police at 1103 Saratoga Street. Officers found Manny atop his mother, Mary J. Ham, who had called for help claiming mental danger from her son. Manny, who wrestled with officers and tried to draw a gun, was pronounced dead at Los Alamitos General Hospital. The mother had previously reported Manny barricading himself inside with a rifle.
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Los Alamitos
David Lee Manny
Saratoga St
Mary J. Ham
Manny
Los Alamitos General Hospital
Leukemia Benefit Set For Buena Park Saturday
A benefit to raise money for the family of a young leukemia victim is planned for 8 p.m. Saturday at the Retail Clerks Local 324 Union Auditorium in Buena Park. Organized by the union and its Huntington Beach drug store members, the event aims to support Tammy Eichlmeier and her family as her mother works there. Ken Coder notes the medical coverage has been fantastic.
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Union Auditorium
Buena Park
Huntington Beach
Ken Coder
Tammy Eichlmeier
Cullen attacks Quinn over Sohio terminal stance
Long Beach Assemblyman Mike Cullen accused Tom Quinn of an arbitrary position on the proposed Sohio tanker terminal. He urged congressional riders to pre-empt state approval, citing environmental concerns and promising a broader regional power shift to counter local government. Cullen also outlined future plans including multi-state water pacts, a coastal commerce center, and a new South Bay county to improve local governance.
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Mike Cullen
DeLong Beach
State Or Resources Board
Tom Quinn
Long Beach Harbor
Quinn
Long Beach
Alaska
Cullen
Green
South Bay Area
Wilmington
San Pedro
Los Angeles County
Torrance rejects oil drilling site in prime retail area
The Torrance City Council refused a plan by Great Lakes Carbon Corp to drill a secondary oil reservoir on a 5 acre parcel at the southeast corner of Torrance and Hawthorne boulevards. A three hour public hearing drew major landowners and department stores as anchors eyed a mall expansion and a 12 story hotel plan tied to Robinsons Magnin and Mervyns. The council, reaffirming prior planning denials, said the project does not fit the area and rejected the zone change.
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Torrance
South Bay
Council
Ken Miller
Sepulveda
Madrona
Ocean Avenues
Miller
Hawthorne
Great Lakes Carbon Corp
White Front
del Amo Fashion Square
Edward Ferraro
Robinson's
Magnin
Mervyn's
Sacramento
Rockefeller
Mall
Great Lakes Carbon
Sec
Anton Cheroske services set for Long Beach banker
Funeral services for Anton F. Cheroske 85 long time Long Beach resident founder of the Egyptian Theater will be held at Brothers Chapel at 1 30 p m Friday. He died Saturday in a Long Beach hospital after a heart attack. A Wiscon sin native who moved to Long Beach in 1996 he served as president of Citizens State Bank later bought by Farmers and Merchants Bank. He was a real estate broker with extensive Southern California holdings and was a member of the Long Beach Elka Lodge. Survivors include his wife Eleanor D daughters Eleanor Robinson Marie Cheroske and Co Tinne Anthony three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Burial will be in Sunnyside Memorial Park.
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Long Beach
Anton F. Cheroske
Brothers Chapel
Cheroske
Ocean Blvd
Wisconsin
Af Citizens State Bank
Farmers & Merchants Bank
California
Long Beach Elka Lodge
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