Browse past news stories for Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, CA.

• Five High School Students Arrested for Sexual Battery (KTLA-TV Los Angeles)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 05:21:25 am
  LONG BEACH -- Five male high school students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two girls reported being groped at school.
• Former college basketball player moves to the classroom (The Lantern)
  posted on November 20, 2009 at 02:00:02 am
  Growing up on the rough streets of Long Beach, Calif., Osei Appiah didn’t expect to end up as a professor at Ohio State. He doesn’t mind now. In fact he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
• Family, Friends, School Leaders Mourn Her Loss (Grunion Gazette)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 09:48:05 pm
  Monday marked a day of mourning at Wilson High School following the shooting death of 16-year-old honor student Melody Ross. In the quad, Ross’s family, including her parents, Chantha and Vanareth Ross, joined Wilson students clad in black to launch balloons in her memory.
• Suspects arrested in murder of L.B. teen (KABC-TV Los Angeles)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 08:47:59 am
  Two suspects were arrested for the murder of Long Beach teen Melody Ross.
• County Supervisors set a $10,000 reward for Long Beach murder information (Los Angeles Daily News)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 04:07:03 pm
  A $10,000 reward for information on the gunman who fatally shot a 16-year-old honor student was approved by the county Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
• Students mourn slain Long Beach teen (KABC-TV Los Angeles)
  posted on November 2, 2009 at 05:02:48 pm
  Students at a Long Beach school grieve after an innocent peer was shot to death.
• Grief couselors to be at Long Beach high school after fatal shooting (Los Angeles Daily News)
  posted on November 2, 2009 at 04:22:10 pm
  Grief counselors were at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach on Monday to comfort classmates of a 16-year-old honor student fatally shot following a high school football game.
• Long Beach School Mourns Slain Student (FOX 11 News Los Angeles)
  posted on November 2, 2009 at 12:48:52 pm
  Grief counselors are at Woodrow Wilson High School this morning to comfort classmates of a 16-year-old honors student fatally shot outside a high school football game, as the search for the shooter continues.
• Student at Long Beach's Wilson High fatally shot after homecoming game (Los Angeles Times)
  posted on November 1, 2009 at 02:14:05 am
  Honors student Melody Ross, 16, was killed and two others wounded in Friday's gunfire. Friends and family gather at a makeshift memorial near campus to remember her life. Reporting from Long Beach Ben Bolch and Los Angeles -- The "Supergirl" Halloween costume that 16-year-old Melody Ross wore to the Wilson High School football game was befitting of her promising resume: honors student, pole ...
• Retired pilot, teacher vie for Hawthorne city clerk's seat (Daily Breeze)
  posted on October 24, 2009 at 04:52:40 am
  Two longtime Hawthorne activists and volunteers - a retired pilot and a teacher - are facing off for the city clerk's seat in the Nov. 3 election. Norb Huber, 54, and Pat Carey, 63, hope to claim the spot being vacated by Angie English, who is running for City Council. Neither have held elective office before.
• Long Beach State - Team Notes (USA Today)
  posted on October 23, 2009 at 12:46:49 pm
  Other coaches in the Big West Conference have good reason to be wary of what Dan Monson is doing at Long Beach State. Monson brought in another ballyhooed recruiting class to complement four returning starters from a team that lost the Big West Conference championship on a 3-pointer at the buzzer in the final game of the regular season.
• Big West Conference (USA Today)
  posted on October 23, 2009 at 12:39:06 pm
  Big West Conference-Around the Big West
• Councilwoman’s Book Discusses Aviation (Downtown Gazette)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 08:09:55 pm
  During the first transcontinental flight across the United States, a pilot by the name of Calbraith “Cal” Rodgers completed his 70-stop trip from Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., to the West Coast by taxiing his plane in the Pacific Ocean just off Long Beach’s Pine Avenue pier in 1911.
• Bradley burns bridge to Chicago (Lawrence Journal-World)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 06:22:30 am
  Sensing he had reached new depths Saturday in the bottomless pit of frustration this baseball season has become, Milton Bradley left a voice mail with his hometown pastor in Carson, Calif.
• Cubs' Milton Bradley won't find answers in Chicago (Chicago Tribune)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 04:17:01 am
  Outfielder's mother says there's more to story than we know Sensing he had reached new depths Saturday night in the bottomless pit of frustration this baseball season has become, Milton Bradley left a voice mail with his hometown pastor in Carson, Calif.
• Bradley's mother speaks: 'He told me he could feel the hatred from fans' (Chicago Tribune)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 03:36:55 am
  Outfielder's mother says there's more to story than we know David Haugh: When Charlena Rector, Milton Bradley's mother, spoke to her son Sunday after the Cubs had suspended him for the rest of the season, she says he repeated that verse and how much he believes in himself. He might be the only one in Chicago who still does. "Milton sounded fine," she said in a 45-minute phone interview.
• Bradley's mother: 'He told me he could feel the hatred from fans' (Chicago Tribune)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 03:36:55 am
  Outfielder's mother says there's more to story than we know David Haugh: When Charlena Rector, Milton Bradley's mother, spoke to her son Sunday after the Cubs had suspended him for the rest of the season, she says he repeated that verse and how much he believes in himself. He might be the only one in Chicago who still does. "Milton sounded fine," she said in a 45-minute phone interview.
• Bradley's mom: 'There's more behind the scenes' (Chicago Tribune)
  posted on September 22, 2009 at 03:32:01 am
  Milton Bradley reports to Cubs training camp. ( Phil Velasquez, Chicago Tribune / February 23 , 2009 )
• A Wave of Love (New America Media)
  posted on September 19, 2009 at 08:11:16 am
  For Professional surfer and model Esther Hahn, catching a wave is more a love affair than a career.
• Councilwoman’s Book Discusses Aviation (Grunion Gazette)
  posted on September 18, 2009 at 04:01:52 pm
  During the first transcontinental flight across the United States, a pilot by the name of Calbraith “Cal” Rodgers completed his 70-stop trip from Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., to the West Coast by taxiing his plane in the Pacific Ocean just off Long Beach’s Pine Avenue pier in 1911.
• UCLA biomedical physicist Amos Norman dies at 87 (The Daily Bruin)
  posted on August 31, 2009 at 10:42:38 am
  Dr. Amos Norman, co-founder of the UCLA Biomedical Physics Graduate Program and professor emeritus in the radiation oncology and radiologcal sciences departments, died on Aug. 8 after a brief illness. He was 87.
• Obituaries for Aug. 12 (The Gresham Outlook)
  posted on August 12, 2009 at 12:53:10 am
  Goldie Mae Thomas Aug. 10, 1931-July 24, 2009 Gresham resident Goldie Mae Thomas, 77, died Friday, July 24. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, at Bateman Carroll Funeral Home, 520 W. Powell Blvd. Goldie was born Aug. 10, 1931, in Revillo, S.D., to Henry and Edna (Fraser) ...
• Japanese Cultural Festival Features Stories, Traditions (Downtown Gazette)
  posted on July 1, 2009 at 05:15:57 pm
  ARTISTIC WORDS. Japanese calligraphy will be one of the things shown at the festival. —Photo courtesy Japanese Cultural Center For those who would like to experience Japanese culture this weekend without the purchase of an expensive plane ticket, the Long Beach Japanese Cultural Festival will engage the senses with the sights, sounds and tastes of Japan.
• Japanese Cultural Festival Features Stories, Traditions (Grunion Gazette)
  posted on June 26, 2009 at 06:39:49 pm
  ARTISTIC WORDS. Japanese calligraphy will be one of the things shown at the festival. —Photo courtesy Japanese Cultural Center For those who would like to experience Japanese culture this weekend without the purchase of an expensive plane ticket, the Long Beach Japanese Cultural Festival will engage the senses with the sights, sounds and tastes of Japan.
• Utterly Utley (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  posted on June 21, 2009 at 05:00:00 am
  When he was 12, Chase Utley's father told him, "If you're good at something, you don't have to tell people - they'll tell you." That lesson may have shaped Utley's attitude more than any other. "I guess I may have taken that idea to an extreme," he admits.
• Area Agency Combats Sexual Violence (Grunion Gazette)
  posted on April 22, 2009 at 06:35:56 pm
  In an effort to deter domestic and sexual violence, one agency is rallying the community with several outreaches next week.
• Nelson: Sharing my 2009 McDonald's All-American Ballot (ESPN)
  posted on February 17, 2009 at 09:55:15 pm
  Glenn Nelson of ESPN HoopGurlz, a member of the McDonald's All-American Selection Committee, shares his final ballot and thoughts on the eve of the team being announced.