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• Pride and patriotism

  Brian McNamara, a Long Beach resident and firefighter, thanked wounded veterans during the Waterfront Warriors parade on Beech Street last Sunday.

• Three men arrested in Long Beach Best Buy theft

  Three men were arrested on suspicion of burglarizing a local Best Buy on Thursday, including one suspect who leaped into the water behind the Marina Pacifica Mall in an attempt to evade police.

• Tim Grobaty: Concert line-up features Long Beach sound

  SWEET RELEASES: Let's say we went out all the time. Pretend we don't spend the bulk of our time in the Barn's New Products Division laboratories seeing how we can work rum raisin curacao, a batch of which was purchased for us by a friend who just returned from Curacao, so it's like 200 percent curacaoian, into a martini without the martini being a ...

• Shakespeare by the Sea's 'Julius Caesar' in Hermosa Beach

  Shakespeare by the Sea sets up to perform "Julius Caesar" at Valley Park in Hermosa Beach.

• Cypress woman heads to Japan

  Rachelle Devera, a Cypress resident and recent Cal State Long Beach graduate, has been selected as a Yokkaichi English Fellow.

• Long Beach man killed in wreck near Diamond Lake

  Oregon State Police troopers are continuing the investigation into Wednesday afternoon's single vehicle fatal traffic crash that resulted in the death of a Long Beach, Calif., man and critical injuries to a San Diego-area woman on Highway 138E near Diamond Lake.

• Scientist IDs mysterious ocean scum

  Greenish-yellow scum floats in the water in Huntington Beach. Photo by Dan Krauss.

• NOTEBOOK

  The Compton High School Class of 1973 will present a 55th birthday celebration Aug.

• Lt. Gov. Maldonado to address Hispanic Chamber meeting Thursday

  California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado will give the keynote address at Thursday's annual Regional Hispanic Chamber of Commerce conference in downtown Long Beach.

• Boeing 2Q profit falls 21%

  In this file photograph taken July 18, 2010, Chief Executive Officer of Boeing, Jim McNerney, right, and Chief Executive Officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Jim Albaugh react as they pose with a Boeing 787 after it landed, for the first time outside the US, at the Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough, England.