A man who carried out a robbery at a Pasadena Citibank branch on Friday was a serial bandit linked to at least five other area banks heists, according to the FBI. They call him the “Twirly Head Bandit.” He earned the moniker due to a squiggly designs carved in... More »
A judge sentenced 59-year-old Pasadenan Teretha Howard to 16 years in prison for the killing of 44-year-old Katoya King, also of Pasadena, on July 8, 2017. Howard pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for the dismissal of a murder charge a... More »
Pasadena has gone digital to beef up the city’s longstanding efforts to attract businesses to locate in the city, officials said. The City’s Economic Development department has launched a new website, Futureyourselfhere.com, as a marketing tool designed to hig... More »
The bodies of a man and a woman were found beneath the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena this weekend in what police suspect were two separate suicides. A passing driver spotted the body of a man about 11:20 p.m. Saturday along Arroyo Boulevard, Pasadena poli... More »
Caltech is a community filled with brilliant minds and good ideas. But sometimes it takes more than good ideas to generate world-changing technologies. Indeed, there is a well-known gap between the lab and the marketplace known as the “valley of death,” in whi... More »
A man robbed Citibank at 161 West California Avenue in Pasadena at about 11:15 a.m. Friday, according to Pasadena Police Lt. William Grisafe. The man allegedly walked into the bank and pushed a note underneath the protective window to a bank teller, demanding ... More »
[Updated: Friday, July 6, 2018 | 3:45 p.m.] Pasadena city officials are looking into the actions of a Building and Safety Division employee seen on cellphone camera video footage berating a woman over her driving and blocking her SUV with his city vehicle ea... More »
Activists and police will come together in Pasadena on Friday, July 6 for a discussion on police use of force. The forum, hosted by the Progressive Discussion Group, will be held at 9 a.m. at the Du-Par’s Restaurant and Bakery, 214 S. Lake Ave. Guests will inc... More »
Now is the time to prepare for what weather forecasters predict to be record-breaking, triple-digit heat for parts of Southern California later in the week, city officials said Tuesday. The public should take precautions against the heat, they said. Although t... More »
As Pasadenans stock up charcoal and hot dogs, police and fire officials are preparing for the city’s first Independence Day under a new ordinance changing the way it deals with fireworks. “The past three days, the Pasadena Police Department has deployed the fi... More »
In an annual activity that has become as much a part of the Fourth of July holiday as the fireworks themselves, the Pasadena Fire Department will douse nearly 54-acres of hillsides around the Rose Bowl with Phos-Chek, a wildland fire retardant, in an effort to... More »
A Sunday evening residential garage fire caused extensive damage to a home in the 3700 block of Ranch Top Road in Pasadena’s Hasting Ranch neighborhood about 6:20 p.m. Firefighters from both the Pasadena and the Arcadia Fire Departments knocked down the blaze ... More »
