Monday, March 15, 2021 | 1:34 pm
Further legal proceedings regarding the mental competency of Mary Jean O’Connor, a woman accused of murdering a woman who adopted one of O’Connor’s two young children, are scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Pasadena Superior Court. O’Connor is charged with one... More »
Monday, March 15, 2021 | 5:00 am
Former Pasadena police Lt. Phlunté Riddle, an appointee to the state Juvenile Parole Board, is expected to come up this week for confirmation by the state Senate. Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Riddle to the Board of Juvenile Hearings in October 2019. The positi... More »
Monday, March 15, 2021 | 5:00 am
Today is the last day local residents can turn in an application to serve on the city’s newly formed Civilian Police Oversight Commission (CPOC). The city is accepting applications until 5 p.m. Eligible applicants will be considered for one of the 11 available... More »
Monday, March 15, 2021 | 5:00 am
The Pasadena Police Department plans to enter into a five-year agreement with the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) to assign officers to Pasadena Unified School District schools in support of the U.S. Department of Education’s “Project Prevent” grant pr... More »
Saturday, March 13, 2021 | 9:54 pm
[UPDATED] A man shot while sitting in his car outside a taco shop along Foothill Boulevard in Pasadena on Saturday nights succumbed to his wounds on Sunday morning, police said. A woman sitting next to him in the car was injured by flying glass. The shooting w... More »
Saturday, March 13, 2021 | 10:05 am
Gunshots rang out in a Pasadena neighborhood Friday evening, but no victims were found, police said. The shooting took place just before 7 p.m. in a residential neighborhood in the area of Sierra Bonita Avenue and Asbury Drive, Pasadena police Lt. Anthony Burg... More »
Friday, March 12, 2021 | 9:13 am
Three separate routine traffic stops in Pasadena this week resulted in the seizure of guns, police said. The most recent incident unfolded shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday after officers stopped a car for a red light violation at Fair Oaks Avenue and Holly Stree... More »
Thursday, March 11, 2021 | 5:21 pm
Gov. Gavin Newsom will not appeal a Los Angeles Superior Court judge’s decision allowing the parole of a local man convicted in the 1982 Westwood murder of a Turkish diplomat, a governor’s office spokeswoman said Thursday. Hampig “Harry” Sassounian, an Armenia... More »
Thursday, March 11, 2021 | 1:27 pm
The Pasadena Fire Department reminds you to change all of your Smoke Alarm batteries when you change your clocks forward an hour on Sunday, March 14 Change Your Smoke Alarm & Carbon Monoxide Alarm Batteries! Replace old batteries with fresh, high quality batte... More »
Thursday, March 11, 2021 | 1:07 pm
A man accused of stealing $67,000 in public funds while working as a principal at schools in Pasadena and Inglewood over the past four years pleaded not guilty to criminal charges on Thursday. Kyle Douglas, 50, denied counts of grand theft, misappropriation of... More »
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | 12:31 pm
The Sheriff’s Department pushed back hard today against a warning by one of the county’s chief watchdogs that the department’s defiance of reforms had recently intensified. “It is unfortunate (Inspector General Max Huntsman) continues to misinform the Board of... More »
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 | 12:19 pm
A man whose murder conviction for a Pasadena killing was vacated as a result of a recent change in state law was re- sentenced Tuesday to 23 years in state prison. Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen imposed the lower term on John Michael Piepoli, now 27, who ... More »