As Los Angeles County allows many businesses to reopen, it is also considering how to safely allow visits to county jails, juvenile halls and camps. In-person visits were halted in March. Citing research showing that in- person contact with loved ones supports... More »
Seconds after the Mitsubishi Lloyd Nelson Jr. was driving struck a police cruiser head-on following a slow-speed chase with police in May, the former LASD deputy and Marine fired two shots through the windshield of his Mitsubishi at a Pasadena police officer, ... More »
[UPDATED] A Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors member pulled a motion on a series of eight proposed law enforcement reform measures Tuesday that has been slated for a vote later in the day, while Pasadena police officials say the vast majority of suggesti... More »
It’s November 1996. Republican Pete Wilson is Governor of California. California’s Congressional delegation is split exactly down the middle between Democrats and Republicans. Sonny Bono is a Congressman. A dance craze called the Macarena is sweeping the n... More »
PCC Superintendent/President Erika Endrijonas signed an executive order on Monday that immediately prohibits the use of carotid restraints, or chokeholds, by PCC Campus Police. The order also creates a 13-member Campus Police Policy Task Force with the charge ... More »
A Pasadena federal appeals panel Monday revived a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright against Guillermo del Toro over elements of the director’s multiple Oscar-winning fantasy “The Shape of Water.” In its wr... More »
Prosecutors filed charges Monday against a woman accused of torching an abandoned building in Pasadena while people were inside, officials said. Sylvia Juanita Arredondo, 29, described as a local transient, pleaded not guilty to felony counts of arson and arso... More »
A Pasadena man who was released on parole less than three years ago for the fatal beating and stabbing of his stepmother in 1986 admitted Monday to stabbing and strangling a retired gynecologist in her East Los Angeles home last year, authorities said. Timothy... More »
As I was driving to work today I was thinking about how it must feel to be a police officer in this current climate. These men and women are sworn to protect us and 99.9% do just that. Without them, chaos reigns and all you have to do is turn on the news and y... More »
[UPDATED] Police arrested a local transient after she was caught lighting trash on fire and trying to shove it under a door at the Pasadena Police Department early Monday, authorities said. Alexandra Scully, 47, was booked on suspicion of arson following her a... More »
It’s hard to pick the right word for what it is. Sympathy? Empathy? Compassion? I looked up the definitions of each one of these and none of them are quite right. Such is the kingdom of names, ultimately unsatisfying. Wanting to help others? The Golden Rule... More »
Pasadena police Sunday morning said they were investigating at the scene of attempted murder by a man of his neighbor about 3:30 a.m. The suspect is in custody in the Pasadena jail. Police said when the suspect intervened in a domestic dispute between his neig... More »
