GNC Holdings, which operates nearly 5,000 vitamin and health product stores throughout the U.S., including a branch in Pasadena, plans to file for Chapter 11 protection and shut down as many as a quarter of its locations, the company said. The company made the... More »
Another popular Pasadena business has succumbed to the pandemic, as Cafe 86 in Pasadena, which has been closed since stay-at-home measures were enacted in March, announced the location will not be reopening. The other five Cafe 86 locations in Chino, Artesia, ... More »
Pasadena-based Blaze Pizza provided full abatement of royalty fees for five weeks into the coronavirus pandemic, and 50 percent abatement in the next four weeks, as part of a package to make sure franchisees were financially secure in the midst of the emergenc... More »
A Pasadena gift shop is planning to launch an online auction Thursday to raise money for the Pasadena NAACP and Black Lives Matter. Items will be listed on the Instagram feed of Homage, owned by Jill Pearsons, who is organizing the event. Having organized nume... More »
The NAACP Pasadena is offering financial relief to small local black-owned businesses in Pasadena, according to a prepared statement released on Wednesday. The group has raised money through generous contributions that will be given to small businesses as a on... More »
As a 35-year City employee with the police department, I would like to share my view of today’s policing challenges in our communities. I understand the struggles of poverty and ethnicity, as well as the historical resistance to change in the policing profess... More »
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 »
