Azusa News

Carlos Campo, 50, of Azusa, also known as Carlos Herrera, escaped from a work furlough program while serving time for a burglary conviction in 1983, according to corrections officials.

Carlos Campos, 50, was convicted of second-degree burglary in Los Angeles County.

AZUSA After nearly 30 years on the run, a man who escaped from a California prison work-furlough program was arrested at his Azusa home Thursday, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said.

They may have been from TV, but characters from a popular PBS show got about 80 preschoolers pumped up for reading during their appearance at a local school Wednesday.

A young man suffered serious injuries late Tuesday after falling from his skateboard while riding down a steep stretch of road, officials said.

Two days later than planned, Colorado Boulevard between San Antonio Road and Santa Anita Avenue might close Wednesday to make way for the $735 million Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension project from Pasadena to Azusa.

Authorities are investigating a burglary that occurred near Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in the wee hours of Monday morning.

An 87-year-old woman with a history of disappearance, now missing for more than a week, is driving around California apparently unharmed, not in trouble and "doing her own thing," according to the woman's niece.

Police arrested two men and two men Saturday on suspicion of trying to carjack a man at a gas station.

Moorpark Patch salutes the graduates! Congratulations to the following Moorpark residents who earned their degrees from various institutions around the country: Clara Galvez graduated from Concordia University in Portand, Oregon and received a Master of Education in Educational Leadership.

A report of a car over the side of Glendora Mountain Road briefly delayed the start of the seventh stage of the Amgen Tour of California bicycle race Saturday, officials said.

Stage 7 of the Amgen Tour de California bicycle race will be make its way through Azusa and Glendora on Saturday en route to the finish line at Mount Baldy.

From left, back row: Guadalupe Flores, 11; Ashley Salazar, 10; Eugenia Behnamfar, Mountain View Elementary third-grade teacher; Angelica Mondragon, 10; and Darlene Gonzales, 10.

One person was taken to a hospital after a two-car collision that damaged a water main valve at Irwindale Avenue and Arrow Highway around 12:30p.m. Tuesday, Los Angeles County fire officials said.

Nineteen-year-old Kendrec McDade was shot at point-blank range by one Pasadena police officer and handcuffed after being struck by a total of seven bullets, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office autopsy report released Friday.

Three passing motorists saved a suicidal 16-year-old girl by pulling her off the Slauson Avenue overpass Tuesday afternoon.

James Elsasser, currently the assistant superintendent in human resources for the Anaheim City School District, has been announced as the Claremont Unified's tentative superintendent selection.

A man involved in a three-vehicle crash on the 60 Freeway early Sunday drove off in a victim's car with the driver still inside, the California Highway Patrol reported.

The District Attorney's Office is going to retry the penalty phase of a case involving two gang members convicted of executing an Azusa woman nearly three years ago in Pomona.

Friday, May 11, 2012A -- was started in 2009 by the American Public Gardens Association, an organization based in Pennsylvania, whose purpose is to promote the value of public gardens throughout North America.