Pasadena Police and the L.A. County Coroner’s office on Friday were investigating the death of a newborn baby girl found in the women’s’ restroom at Memorial Park on Thursday night – a heartbreaking scene that left first-responders shaken, city spokesperson Li... More »
Comments from the readers Charter School Chatter March 2, 2020 Via E-mail to Dr. Brian McDonald, Superintendent Members of the Board of Education Pasadena Unified School District 351 S. Hudson Ave. Pasadena, CA 91109 Re: Response to Concerns About Melkonian Hi... More »
As Pasadenans prepare to change the time on their clocks to Daylight Savings Time this Sunday, March 8 — turning them forward at 2 a.m. by one hour to 3 a.m — the Pasadena Fire Department reminds everyone to also change all of the batteries in smoke alarms an... More »
A Monrovia school held classes on Thursday after being scrubbed down and disinfected on Wednesday as a precautionary measure. According to district officials, the decision to disinfect Clifton Middle school was made after it became known that a parent of two s... More »
Beverly Hills-based GWP Real Estate was the chief buyer behind the purchase last month of Pasadena Office Tower, a 167,000-square foot-building at 199 S. Los Robles Ave., for $55 million, or about $346 per square foot, said a report Tuesday in The Real Deal. T... More »
Health officials in California announced Wednesday the state’s first Coronavirus death, raising the death toll to 11 in the United States. The patient was an elderly adult with underlying health conditions, county officials said, adding that the person was the... More »
Comments from the readers Straight talk on the Coronavirus Don’t be fooled by claims that this is “just the flu,” or “no worse than the flu” unless you are specifically referring to the 1918 Spanish Influenza outbreak, with its fatality rate of 2.5 percent. Th... More »
A couple were sentenced today for their roles in the fatal stabbing of a man in the parking lot of the Rose Bowl in 2018, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Miguel Castaneda, 24, of Los Angeles was sentenced to 12 years in state priso... More »
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday reported the mortality rate for the coronavirus has jumped to 3.4 percent as the virus continues to spread worldwide at an alarming rate. In comparison, WHO officials noted that the mortality rate is less than 1 p... More »
A Pasadena man who served nearly three decades in state prison for fatally beating and stabbing his stepmother made his first court appearance today on charges of killing a retired doctor at her East Los Angeles home. Timothy Chavira, 56, is charged with the D... More »
A Pasadena man who served nearly three decades in state prison for fatally beating and stabbing his stepmother is set to be arraigned today in the killing of a retired doctor at her East Los Angeles home. Timothy Chavira, 56, is charged with murder for the Dec... More »
Some final thoughts heading into Election Day – It’s unlikely Jason Hardin or Major Williams will win the mayor’s race. Can they combine for enough votes to send the race into a runoff? I still don’t like the way we elect the mayor and I have to go with door k... More »
