Congresswoman Judy Chu will be in the Rector’s Forum at All Saints Church on Sunday, April 19 at 10:15 a.m. to talk about her efforts in Congress to protect women’s health access and reproductive rights. On January 21, Congresswoman Judy Chu introduced the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) in the House of Representatives in an effort to take the offensive against state laws that curb a woman’s ... More »
Akila Gibbs, executive director of the Pasadena Senior Center, was recognized recently as one of California Senator Carol Liu’s six 25th Senate District Women of the Year during a reception at Liu’s home. She was honored for her dedicated leadership of the Pasadena Senior Center and her work to enhance the quality of life in the community. “On behalf of the Pasadena Senior Center Board of Director... More »
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream COVERAGE BEGINS AT 5:30 Pasadena Now’s Living Section Editor and Dodgers Expert broadcasts and reports live today from Chavez Ravine. Preseason games don’t have extra innings, so this one ends in a tie. In a game that displayed some moderate-sized holes in the Dodgers pitching and fielding, the Dodgers managed to tie the game with a ninth inning, first-pit... More »
A June camp for high school girls will teaching some very practical, useful skills and help the girls develop a safety first attitude that builds self confidence and self esteem, its organizers said in announcement. The San Gabriel Valley chapter of National Association of Women in Construction outline its upcoming MAGIC (Mentor A Girl In Construction) Summer Camp, describing it as a supportive an... More »
More than 200 law enforcement agencies statewide are working together to crack down on “distracted” driving during April. As part of the effort, teens in particular are being targeted for education during National Distracted Driving Awareness Month in April and California Teen Safe Driving Week, the first week of April. “Driving takes one’s full attention and any distraction can have deadly, dan... More »
Pasadena Chief of Police Phillip L. Sanchez reported today that the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, Hardcore/Gang Division filed charges Wednesday which carry a combined maximum of 109 years to life against an alleged local gang member arrested in Altadena late last month. Sanchez identified the suspect as Kefvon Jerome Camp, 26, of Altadena. Booking records showing Camp’s bail has ... More »
Two victims, a man and a woman, were attacked and robbed after each gave a panhandler a dollar in two separate incidents overnight, Pasadena police Lt. John Mercado reported Friday morning. In the first case, 30-year-old Latino man who just gotten off a bus on South Fair Oaks Avenue and Glenarm Street about 11:10 p.m. when approached him and asked for money, Mercado said. The victim pulled out his... More »
Imagine you need to have an almost exact copy of an object. Now imagine that you can just pull your smartphone out of your pocket, take a snapshot with its integrated 3-D imager, send it to your 3-D printer, and within minutes you have reproduced a replica accurate to within microns of the original object. This feat may soon be possible because of a new, tiny high-resolution 3-D imager developed a... More »
A new Jet Propulsion Laboratory study finds the Tuolumne River Basin snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada — a vital water source for all of California — has decreased by about 60% over its maximum volume at this time last year. In its first springtime acquisition project of the year, JPL’s Airborne Snow Observatory quantified the total volume of water contained within the Tuolumne River Basin sn... More »
Three teenagers were charged Thursday with robbing an 87-year-old man as he exercised around the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Juan Antonio Medina Martínez, 19, and Gabriel Anthony Mixco, 19, of Rowland Heights, and Dominick Tobiah Guzman, 19, of Hacienda Heights face one felony count each of second-degree robbery and elder abuse. Mixco faces ... More »
