At Magnolia Playground, off the Long Beach boardwalk, a statue of her son has stood, unblemished, on a rock fashioned after the Long Beach jetties for the boy who died nine years ago from a ...

Twice as tall as Niagara Falls, the so-called West Coast bookend to the Statue of Liberty would serve as a cross-cultural icon and tourist magnet next to the Port of Long Beach, with an attached ...