CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 1, 2009 | Ruben Vives and Ben Bolch
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 vaulter and athlete, positive attitude, aspirations to attend UCLA. Those were the attributes that Melody's friends and family recalled Saturday as they gathered near the stadium gates at the Long Beach campus. They placed flowers and votive candles at the spot where she was fatally shot Friday night as she and her friends were leaving the Wilson homecoming game against Polytechnic High School.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 21, 2009 | Seema Mehta
About 170 students and staff members at Wilson High School will be tested for possible exposure to tuberculosis, according to the Long Beach Unified School District. The screening, which parents will be notified about on Monday, was prompted by the infection of an individual at the school and will be conducted in early April. People who had contact with the infected person will have a substance injected under the skin of their forearm. The area will be checked a few days later, and, if signs of exposure are present, the person's chest will be X-rayed by the city's health department or their personal physician, Robert Tagorda, assistant to the superintendent, said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 29, 2008 | Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Times Staff Writer
Angry, offensive messages started popping up more than a year ago on the Glen A. Wilson High School page on Wikipedia, the popular user-edited online encyclopedia. The writer, who said he was a student, hid behind an anonymous e-mail address to threaten by name Asian students at the San Gabriel Valley school, hurl racial slurs at the school's primarily Asian badminton team and allude to possible attacks.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 19, 2008 | Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Times Staff Writer
Authorities arrested a male high school student Friday in connection with Internet threats that led officials to cancel classes at Glen A. Wilson High School in Hacienda Heights. The student, a minor whose name was not released, was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats, which is a felony. Sheriff's and school officials said the student confessed to posting the threats -- which included a hit list of students he said he intended to shoot.
SPORTS
April 9, 2008 | Martin Henderson, Times Staff Writer
Callie Nikoletich wasn't going to play softball this season. She was burned out on the sport, there was too much drama on the team, her back ached and her grades suffered. For seven months, she didn't play. Then came February. After a month-long full-court press by teammates, coaches and boosters to try to coax her back, Nikoletich relented. She returned to Long Beach Wilson's softball program and has been the center of its revival 14 years after the Bruins last won a Moore League title.
NEWS
January 13, 2008
Wilson High football: The obituary of former Wilson High School football coach Vic Cuccia in Saturday's California section referred to Steve Martinez as the current Wilson coach and said he had been an all-star receiver in 1977 for Cuccia. Martinez was the all-star receiver, but the current coach -- quoted in the story -- is Eddie Martinez, who also played football at Wilson.