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The “Beach Pantry,” stocked with caed beans, soups, grape juice and other goods, is a new resource at Cal State Long Beach for students who find themselves unable to cover the combined costs of study and meals. The pantry has been open since the Aug. 22 begiing of the campus’ fall term. Cal State Long Beach’s student govement, with help from a Lakewood charity called Food Finders, created the stash of nonperishable foods for students enduring short- or long-term difficulties. Food insecurity is actually a fairly widespread problem on Cal State University campuses; university officials reported in February that some 23 percent of students within the Cal State system experience food insecurity...

ONTARIO >> The once-vacant and quiet Meredith property between Vineyard and Archibald avenues began bustling with commercial activity Monday as officials dedicated QVC’s first West Coast distribution center with an opening ceremony. The 1-million-square-foot QVC warehouse was filled with a sea of empty shelving racks Monday, but trucks bringing inventory had arrived and officials expected to begin shipping product out from Ontario this week. They expect to ramp up the operation by the holiday shopping season. The new facility should shrink delivery times up to four days, Jim Reid, vice president of customer logistics, said. “We want to speed that process up for our West Coast customer...

Chef Arthur Gonzalez said he is weeks away from realizing his goal of opening a new seafood place, called Roe Restaurant, in Belmont Shore after experiencing so many challenges there that he ended up opening an entirely different restaurant since his first attempt four years ago. “We’re starting to come down to crunch time,” Gonzalez said. Late last week, the future home of Roe Restaurant was still a dusty construction site in the space next to its sister enterprise Roe Xpress, a fish market selling dishes prepared from the likes of salmon, mahi mahi, yellowtail and octopus, as well as a place where clam “chowdah” is spelled with Boston accent even though Hatch chiles are part of the recipe....

More than a year after the Califoia Coastal Commission halted the demolition of three waterfalls at Trump National Golf Club, the club was given a go-ahead this week by commission staff to move forward with restoration work. The initial infraction stemmed from demolition work at three man-made waterfalls at Trump National. The club had received a building permit from the city of Rancho Palos Verdes in April 2015, but didn’t get approval from the Coastal Commission for construction work inside the coastal zone. Parts of the course are home to protected bird species, including the Califoia gnatcatcher, which nests exclusively in the coastal sage scrub along a limited range of the Califoia coa...

Rams fans retu to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Saturday, where they’ll see their team play the Kansas City Chiefs on the field. What they don’t want to see are fights off the field and in the stands. That’s why officials this week assured fans that security is priority No. 1 at the Coliseum after last week’s preseason opener against the Dallas Cowboys. The long-awaited game ended in a victory for the home team, but three people were arrested and seven were ejected from the stands after some tempers flared. Eleven ambulances also were requested, but only one person had to be taken to the hospital, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. “The security of fans attending our games ...

Mandatory evacuation orders for an area of south Hesperia and Oak Hills will be lifted at 1 p.m., the Sheriff’s Department said at 12:45 p.m. Thursday. The area extends east of the 15 Freeway to Santa Fe and Summit Valley Road and south of Ranchero Road to Highway 138. The Blue Cut fire has left about 967 customers without power as of noon Thursday, according to Southe Califoia Edison. • LIVE UPDATES: Latest on the Blue Cut fire from our reporters and photographers in the field Areas with fire-related outages include Hesperia, Oak Hills, Pinon Hills, Phelan, Rancho Cucamonga and Victorville, SCE said on Twitter. “We’re currently staging additional persoel & materials (poles, wires, tran...

Kanye West to open 21 ‘Pablo’ pop-up stores worldwide, and LA is getting one Kanye West aounced on Twitter that he will open 21 temporary “Pablo” stores worldwide on the weekend of Aug. 20 in cities that include Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File) NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West fans can buy a taste of “The Life of Pablo” this weekend following the rapper-tued-fashion mogul’s aouncement of 21 pop-up stores worldwide that will be open just this weekend. West tweeted a map with red dots indicating the stores’ locations Wednesday night. Fourteen of the stores will be in major cities in the U.S. The pop-up store locations include Los Angeles and San Francisco, accord...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Marcus Fraser shot a 63, Justin Rose had a hole-in-one and Matt Kuchar saw a rat large enough to ride in a derby - soapbox or Kentucky. Golf made its historic retu to the Olympics on Thursday, while the capybara made its celebrated Games debut. Capybaras are rodents that can reach roughly the size of an NFL wide receiver, their appearance here more eagerly anticipated by golf enthusiasts than even the retu of Tiger Woods. “I imagine people in Brazil think it’s fuy that we go ogling over something that is a little more normal to them,” Kuchar said. “If they were to come over (to the U.S.) we’d kinda say, ‘It’s a squirrel. We got plenty of those.’ ” Maybe, but squirrel...

A new health center offering free and low-cost services to LGBTQ residents in Long Beach and the surrounding area marked its official grand opening Wednesday inside the St. Mary Medical Center campus. Funded in part by a $650,000 grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration, the 7,000-square-foot Long Beach Health Center, which will serve more than 5,000 people each year, is one of the newest neighborhood centers opened by the nonprofit AIDS Project Los Angeles, and APLA Health. The center offers medical, dental and behavioral health care services to the LGBTQ community, including disease prevention counseling, HIV testing, scre...

A downtown Long Beach restaurant and bar was allowed to reopen Saturday night after health inspectors found about 30 live cockroaches throughout the building last week. Cafe Sevilla at 140 Pine Ave., a Spanish restaurant and tapas bar, was closed Wednesday to Saturday, until staff could sanitize the facility. About 30 live cockroaches were discovered near the soda syrup rack, along the base covering the chefs line, the prep table, the floor area near the employee breakroom, the back storeroom and undeeath a freezer. Inspectors also observed about 10 fruit flies at the downstairs bar area. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Kevin Durant looks ready to lead a new group of Americans to the gold-medal podium. Durant picked up right where he left off in the 2012 Olympics with 25 points, and the U.S. men’s basketball team routed China 119-62 on Saturday night in its opening game. The new Golden State Warriors star scored 30 points four years ago in the gold-medal game, when the Americans held off Spain for the championship. Only he and Carmelo Anthony retued from that team, but the new guys were plenty ready for their Olympic moment. “We just wanted to send a statement to the rest of the world,” Anthony said. “Come out this first game and let everybody know that we’re focused, we’re locked i...

Disney officials confirmed Friday that there have been staff reductions this week at Walt Disney Imagineering, the arm of the Walt Disney Co. that designs its theme parks. The reductions were accomplished at the Glendale-based company through a combination of voluntary departures and layoffs. Imagineering increased its staff while working on Shanghai Disneyland, which opened in June. It employed more than 2,000 designers and engineers around the world before the reductions. “Walt Disney Imagineering is a project-based organization, and we continually evaluate and adjust our resources to support the design and development of Disney theme parks, resorts and experiences around the globe,” said ...

KNBC/4 8-10:30 a.m. - Rowing; Men’s cycling; Men’s water polo (U.S. vs. Croatia) 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Men’s cycling; Swimming 2:30-4:15 p.m. - Rowing; Men’s beach volleyball (Gibb/Patterson-U.S. vs. Jefferson/Cherif-Qatar) 4:15-6 p.m. - Women’s volleyball (U.S. vs. Puerto Rico) xxxx 8 p.m. -midnight - Men’s gymnastics; Men’s swimming; Women’s swimming; Women’s beach volleyball (Walsh/Jeings-Ross-U.S. vs. Artacho del Solar/Laird-Australia) 12:30-1:30 a.m. - Men’s gymnastics 1:30-5 a.m. - Primetime encore NBCSN 6-9 a.m. - Men’s archery; Women’s shooting; Beach volleyball 9-10 a.m. - Women’s rugby (U.S. vs. Fiji) 10 a.m.-1 p.m. - Men’s basketball (Australia vs. France); Beach volleyball; Men’s wa...

What’s everyone talking about after the Rio 2016 opening ceremony? Gisele. She’s married to Tom Brady, she’s a famous super model and she’s from Brazil. Naturally, she made an appearance at the opening ceremony for her country’s Olympic Games. And the world loved it. Gisele walked across the stadium floor to the Bossa Nova song “Girl from Ipanema” and suddenly, Ipanema was trending on Twitter. Yes, that means Gisele had two trending topics at once Friday night. And they say the Olympics are about sports. If you’re reading this on your phone, use this link to see the full story. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

The Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony will air at 7:30 p.m. on NBC TV on Friday. The event begins at 4 p.m. Pacific Time, but is delayed for prime time across the country. Streaming options include the NBC Sports app or go to NBColympics.com - both will require a login with cable subscription after 30 minutes. Follow live updates from Southe Califoia News Group reporters Scott Reid and Jeff Miller, along with tweets from Southe Califoia Athletes on our live blog here. Samba and pop music singers are expected to perform, including Grammy award wiers Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen will also be on hand. But the climax of the show, the lighting of the cauldron, depends ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Novak Djokovic will face 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro in the first round at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Del Potro’s ranking has fallen to 145th after he endured three operations on his left wrist. But at his first Grand Slam in 21/2 years, he upset fourth-seeded Stan Wawrinka at Wimbledon last month. The Argentine beat Djokovic for the bronze medal in London four years ago. Djokovic is seeking his first Olympic title. A potential semifinal opponent for the Serb is third-seeded Rafael Nadal, who hasn’t played since withdrawing from the French Open because of a left wrist injury. Reigning gold medalist Andy Murray could face fourth-seeded Kei Nishikori in...

Long Beach police have reopened streets near Bixby Park that officers closed Friday moing during an investigation of a suspicious device found in the area. Responders determined the device that prompted the closures and concurrent evacuation of Bixby Park was an empty one-gallon gasoline container with wire wrapped around its handle, Long Beach Police Sgt. Bradley Johnson said in an email. The discovery of the suspicious device happened about 9 a.m. Friday near the crossing of First Street and Cherry Avenue, police Sgt. Bradley Johnson said in an email. Police aounced shortly after 11:15 a.m. that officers had reopened the streets to motorists. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

NEWTOWN, Co. — When the public gets its first glimpse Friday of the school built to replace the one where 20 first-graders and six educators were massacred, they’ll see a building designed to be attractive, environmentally friendly, conducive to leaing and, above all, safe. The old Sandy Hook Elementary School was to down after the gunman’s rampage in December 2012. The new $50 million, 86,000-square-foot school was built on the same property but not in the old footprint, and is scheduled to open next month. A media tour will precede a public open house on Friday. Local officials hope that allowing everyone a look at the school this week will give students a “quiet, respectful, and appropri...

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — The search for another first-time major champion in the final one of the year began Thursday with Jimmy Walker at the PGA Championship. Walker had no problem with the stifling heat at Baltusrol, and he was thrilled to see some putts finally go in. It led to six birdies on his way to a 5-under 65 and a one-shot lead over Emiliano Grillo and Ross Fisher among the early starters. It was Walker’s best score in a major. “I feel like all year it’s just been real stale and stagnant,” Walker said. “It’s just ebbs and flows of golf. Just haven’t been scoring. ... It’s frustrating. I would have loved to have had a better year than I’ve had so far to this point, but I know there’s a...

Roger Federer is sitting out the rest of this season, including the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and U.S. Open, to protect his surgically repaired left knee. Federer wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday that he needs “more extensive rehabilitation following my knee surgery earlier this year.” “The doctors advised that if I want to play on the ATP World Tour injury free for another few years, as I intend to do, I must give both my knee and body the proper time to fully recover,” Federer said. His agent, Tony Godsick, wrote in an email to The Associated Press that Federer’s plan is to “be ready for the start of next year.” Federer is the first member of teis’ so-called “Big 4” a group that includes ...