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Residents in many corners of Southern California will soon have to add three more digits when making phone calls to those who share their area code. Those with the area codes 562, 626, 949 and 951 ...

Those with the 562 area code should be on the lookout for telephone scams involving Farners & Merchants Bank, the Seal Beach Daily is reporting. The Long Beach Police Fraud and Forgery Department has ...