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Family Continues Search for Overboard Passenger of Catalina Express

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Though the official search has concluded, Keion’s family and loved ones aren’t giving up. In addition to the 600 square miles searched by authorities both on the ocean and from the air, Kion’s family has coordinated with community members to keep up the search efforts.

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City Auditor Laura Doud Finds Urban Commons Misrepresents Financial Information of Queen Mary

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The Long Beach City Auditor’s Office (Office) in partnership with the forensics accounting firm, Hemming Morse, has performed an analysis of financial transactions and activity between Urban Commons Queensway LLC (Urban Commons), the leaseholder and operator of the Queen Mary, and the City of Long Beach (City). The purpose of the investigation was to verify that the $23 million approved by City Council in 2016 was used as intended to fund 27 critical and urgent repair projects identified in the 2016 Marine Survey.

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Update: Where Did the Children Go?

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Mayor Robert Garcia and city officials announced late last month that Long Beach would be welcoming several hundred migrant children to be housed at the Long Beach Convention Center until a time in which the reunification of them and their families was possible (prospectively 7-10 days for each child to be specific). After two weeks of operation, with a lack of publicly available data, the facility has failed to reunite any children with their families or sponsors thus far. According to Forbes, only four families throughout the U.S., separated under the Trump administration, have been reunited since President Biden took office. Though the housing of migrant children here in Long Beach has been well-publicized, their transportation out of the city, and in this instance, the state, has not.

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Long Beach Providing Migrant Children with Temporary Emergency Shelter

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To ensure the safety and well-being of each child, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement, has requested assistance from local governments throughout the United States to provide temporary facilities for these children, while the federal government quickly reconnects them with family members or sponsors in the United States. Long Beach specifically has been requested to assist with this humanitarian mission to safely house children who are unattended by their parents.

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World Kindness Day – 5 Ways to Contribute to the LB Community and 2 Locals Share their Stories

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Today is National World Kindness Day and Long Beach is filled with people who want to make the world a

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Transformational gift to name Children’s Village in Honor of the late Cherese Mari Laulhere at the Memorialcare Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital in Long Beach

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MemorialCare Miller Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Long Beach is only 5% of all hospitals that specialize in children, which

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