Thursday, February 27, 2020 | 4:57 pm
Authorities today recovered a black Lincoln Navigator hearse with a casket and body inside that was stolen near a church in unincorporated East Pasadena on Wednesday night, and a suspect was taken into custody after the vehicle crashed on a freeway in the sout... More »
Thursday, February 27, 2020 | 5:48 am
Health and emergency-management officials said Wednesday there is “no reason to panic” locally about the coronavirus known as COVID-19 that has spread around the world, but they said preventative measures are being taken. “The current risk to L.A. County resid... More »
Thursday, February 27, 2020 | 5:45 am
Pasadena School Board President Patrick Cahalan provided Pasadena Now with this Executive Summary previewing today’s School Board meeting. The meeting’s public session will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. in PASADENA UNFIED’s Elbie J. Hickambottom Board Room a... More »
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | 9:24 pm
BREAKING STORY: The hearse stolen in East Pasadena Wednesday night with a body inside crashed on the 110 freeway near the Vernon offramp after short pursuit around 7:45 a.m. by LAPD units during which the hearse struck a number of other vehicles. The stolen Li... More »
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | 11:23 am
Due to requests from our readers, we are again presenting a rough transcript of a discussion Monday’s City Council meeting regarding the reassignment of Bertral Washington at Monday’s City Council meeting. The transcript includes public speakers. Naja Benson: ... More »
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | 6:14 am
The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center is calling on the public to beware of an email scam that has targeted the Jewish community, as well as other religious communities across the country. A public notice posted by the PJTC on its website says hackers are “see... More »
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | 5:48 am
Shoppers at Pasadena’s Whole Foods Market on East Foothill were met on Tuesday by grocery workers who claim that Whole Foods is having a “disruptive impact” on Southern California’s social fabric and food supply chain. In 2017, Amazon bought Whole Foods for $1... More »
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | 5:42 am
[Updated] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called on the public Tuesday to prepare for a possible outbreak in the U.S. of the coronavirus that’s infected more than 80,000 people and killed at least 2,700 overseas in less than two months. That pr... More »
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | 4:50 pm
Comments from the readers Not happy Dear Editor, There are curious things to be found in the mail these days. Last week I found a campaign postcard with disparaging and dismissive statements about me. This postcard featured the same type of tiresome attacks me... More »
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | 6:32 am
Comments from the readers Developers are leading Pasadena astray. Sure, Pasadena is a nice place to live and the need for more housing in our community as well as neighboring cities is acute. But are we building what is most needed for our citizens or are we b... More »
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | 6:10 am
According to a city spokesperson, six feet of honeycomb was found in the walls of a local hotel where a block-long Africanized bee swarm originated from last week. “They may have been there for a while,” said City Spokesperson Lisa Derderian. As of Friday, the... More »
Monday, February 24, 2020 | 1:25 pm
A Pasadena woman was among three people killed in a bus crash on Saturday. Julia Perez Cornejo, 73, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on 15 South Freeway on Saturday after the bus she was riding on went down a steep embankment. According to repo... More »