All Topics

• Los Angeles Child Plays With Lighter and Gets Burned

  Shannon Weidemann | April 25, 2007 2:43 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A 6-year-old girl in Los Angeles was playing with a lighter at her home when her clothes caught on fire. She ran out of her house and caught the attention of a 17-year-old neighbor by her screams. He was able to wrap her in a towel to extinguish the fire. Firefighters and Paramedics arrived at a single-family residence to find a severely burned 6 year-old female, conscious and alert, however,...

• Hit and Run Driver Kills Long Beach Man

  Shannon Weidemann | April 18, 2007 8:14 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A 59-year-old Long Beach man was driving on Long Beach Boulevard when another car ran a red light on Pacific Coast Highway and slammed into him. Firefighters had to use the jaws of life to get him out of his car, as well as the two passengers. The driver died from his injuries.The driver of the other car tried to run away but was arrested by the police. He was booked for suspicion of driving...

• Long Beach Boulevard the Scene of Auto Accident

  Shannon Weidemann | April 10, 2007 12:15 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  Two cars collided on Long Beach Boulevard this morning during the early morning commute. One car was exiting the Long Beach Freeway when it was hit by a car driving on Long Beach Boulevard around 8:15 a.m. A man driving a white, four-door Honda was exiting the offramp to go on northbound Long Beach Boulevard when a woman driving a white Kia ran a red light and rammed her vehicle into the...

• Mystery Woman Hit by Blue Line Train in Long Beach

  Shannon Weidemann | April 07, 2007 11:45 AM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  An unidentified woman is in a coma following an accident on March 21st with the Blue Line Train in Long Beach. Police believe she threw herself in front of the train as a suicide attempt. Her fingerprints and belongings yielded no identification of her name. She is being treated at the Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. She sustained massive internal injuries and had one leg severed when...

• Postal Carriers Being Bitten by More Dogs

  Shannon Weidemann | April 05, 2007 12:43 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  Mail Carriers around the country are dealing with more and more dog attacks and bites. In the last 18 months alone 215 incidents involving aggressive dogs have been reported in the Sacramento District. 84 mail carriers have been bitten or attacked. April is traditionally the most dangerous time of year for postal carriers, because as the weather is generally pleasant, neither too hot or too...

• Salmonella Forces Recall of Pet Treats

  Shannon Weidemann | April 03, 2007 12:11 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  With the recent pet food recall it seems more and more animal foods are under scrutiny for pet safety. The latest to be recalled is dog, cat, and ferret treats made by Dingo. The may contain salmonella which poses a hazard to pets as well as humans that handle the treats. The announcement is not related to the recalls of tainted food that has led to kidney failure in pets around the country....

• Safety Inspections Not Done on School Cafeterias

  Shannon Weidemann | March 26, 2007 12:57 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  Starting with the 2005-06 school year Congress required all school cafeterias to have two health inspections a year. 30 percent of schools in the last year only received one inspection. Health inspections are important to check for conditions where germs may grow, to make sure employees are washing their hands, and other food safety violations. Schools in the Long Beach Unified School...

• Hit-And-Run Fatal Pedestrian Accident Near Union Station

  IB Contributor | March 10, 2007 9:40 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  Police requesting assistance from witnesses.A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run auto accident early this morning while she was crossing the street in downtown Los Angeles, near Union Square according to the Los Angeles Police as reported by KCAL news.Ruby Rollins, 57, of Bakersfield was struck by a sports utility vehicle while crossing the street in the 800 block of North Alameda Street...

• Router Table Part Recalled

  Shannon Weidemann | March 09, 2007 5:18 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  Ryobi is recalling a part for their router table because it is defective and may harm those who use it. One World Technologies Inc. owns Ryobi. The part is a throat plate used on a router table and may not snap into place securely.The recall involves Ryobi-brand router tables, with model number RT101, which is written on the table's data plate, located on its front leg. These tables were sold...

• Peoria Man Killed by Passenger Train

  Shannon Weidemann | March 05, 2007 6:51 PM | 0 CommentsLong Beach, CA

  A 20-year-old man from Peoria was killed in a railroad accident in Monmouth on Friday. He was struck by a passenger train in front of the Monmouth Public Safety Building at a railroad crossing. One woman witnessed the tragic accident and ran to the nearby police station to report a pedestrian was just struck by a train.The woman said it appeared the pedestrian did not realize the eastbound...