Long Beach marine killed in local motorcycle crash A Long Beach resident was killed after being struck by a truck leaving the Los Altos United Church parking lot on Atherton Street Saturday. See story in News section. Photos by Tracey Roman/Summer Forty-Niner

News

• Long Beach marine killed in local motorcycle crash
  A Long Beach resident was killed after being struck by a truck leaving the Los Altos United Church parking lot on Atherton Street Saturday.
  
• Partners digitally divulge STD info
  Socially, it is something people wish not to discuss. Sex partners who are embarrassed to confront each other about being infected by an STD, are given a chance with an “indirect” option by Internet Sexuality Information Services (ISIS), who has developed the Internet Notification Service for Partners or Tricks, better known as InSPOT.
  
• L.B. Mayor honors charitable pursuits of G-Funk superstar
  Warren Griffin III, Warren G, is best known for his musical talent. He emerged from the Long Beach rap scene in 1994 and took over the airwaves with a duet with Los Angeles native Nate Dogg. “Regulators” quickly became popular and set the stage for a successful career for Warren G.
  
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Opinion

• Our view: Fictionalized suicide sends obsessed message
  With the recent release of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince,” we wonder if the author ever feels guilty about Harry Potter’s magnetizing power over a worldwide audience. The answer is probably not, as she writes all the way to the bank.
  
• School admission policy not racial discrimination
  In a 2-1 decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the admission policy at the Kamehameha Schools in Hawaii is unlawful racial discrimination, according to an Associated Press article published Tuesday.
  
• Nor Cal, So Cal — can't we all just get along?
  All throughout High School, I, a Northern California native, wanted to go to college in Southern California — So Cal, the land of surfers and movie stars, where everyone lives like the kids on “The O.C.” and “Laguna Beach.”
  
• College stereotypes not applicable with this student
  You’re in college now. It’s Saturday night, so naturally you’re doing at least one of the following: auditioning for the latest Girls Gone Wild video by dancing on a tabletop sporting your birthday suit, doing jello shots off two different girls in a hot tub, or lying passed out in the backyard of a house you never remember entering that’s at least 20 miles away from where your night began.

Diversions

• The Aquabats: Super rad ska, monster beat downs, geeky costumes
  Clad in superhero masks, lycra (rash-guard) shirts and pro wrestler champion-style belts, the boys of the Aquabats play their own brand of ska/pop/punk music to venues full of screaming fans.
  
• New musical outlet former Bush frontman
  Many people have heard of Gavin Rossdale. His distinct voice graced the albums of Bush from the early ’90s until 2002, when the band members decided to go their separate ways.