Thursday, February 6, 2020 | 10:00 am
The Pasadena Firefighters Union expressed support of Acting Fire Chief Bryan Frieders on Wednesday when contacted by Pasadena Now. “We are confident in Chief Frieders’ leadership and his ability to carry out the Fire Department’s Mission,” said Sean Timoney, p... More »
Thursday, February 6, 2020 | 6:33 am
A woman was transported to a local hospital with smoke inhalation and a home in the 600 block of Penn Street was severely damaged by fire Wednesday night. The 7:33 p.m. blaze brought a large fire and police department response to the blaze in a single-story, w... More »
Thursday, February 6, 2020 | 6:01 am
Ex-L.A. County Sheriff behind bars in Texas for obstruction of justice and lying to FBI The man who ran the nation’s largest sheriff’s department for 15 years is now behind bars. Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca began serving a three-year federal\ pr... More »
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 | 3:22 pm
The Pasadena Police Department has linked a 2015 homicide to an earlier murder in 2013. According to a statement that cites public information and sources close to the Denver Lanes street gang, Tyrone English and Monte Russell’s murders are linked by an intern... More »
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 | 2:09 pm
Authorities arrested 11 people and recovered three firearms while searching illegal marijuana dispensaries in Altadena, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced Monday. The searches took place during the last two weeks of January at two dispensari... More »
Monday, February 3, 2020 | 6:36 am
[smooth=id:1872;] Fifty new Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members completed the 21-hour Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) course in Pasadena Saturday, including city staff, personnel from Huntington Hospital and Caltech, a team of Wildland Fire st... More »
Monday, February 3, 2020 | 6:33 am
Pasadena Police Chief John Perez will discuss automatic license plate readers, and facial recognition software currently being used by the department later this month. According to Perez, all three issues will be up for “community discussion and education.” Fo... More »
Monday, February 3, 2020 | 5:41 am
Pasadena police said 88-year-old Roberto Villagomez was last seen about 4 p.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of N. Marengo Ave. before he went missing and are asking the public to help them find him. Villagomez suffers from dementia, authorities said. He stands 5’6... More »
Sunday, February 2, 2020 | 5:51 am
Pasadena police are encouraging football fans to think twice and sideline themselves from driving today if they have celebrated Super Bowl LIV by drinking a bit too much. “Have a game plan for the big game by making sure you have a safe way to get home,&#... More »
Friday, January 31, 2020 | 5:55 am
The Pasadena Police Department has cautioned residents and visitors to the city about the rising number of vehicle burglaries in Pasadena. The department released an advisory specifying steps by which the public can help prevent falling victim to such a burgla... More »
Thursday, January 30, 2020 | 4:45 pm
Being clean and being careful can sometimes mean the difference between staying healthy and getting sick, and the same can apply to the current novel coronavirus scare, says Dr. Kimberly Shriner, an infectious disease specialist affiliated with Pasadena’s Hunt... More »
Thursday, January 30, 2020 | 5:04 am
Rumors to the contrary, a Huntington Hospital official told Pasadena Now that the hospital does not have a family under quarantine, nor did they transfer a patient to a hospital in Baldwin Hills that was showing all the symptoms of the novel coronavirus. “To d... More »