South Pasadena News

Ellen Dougherty will replace Joe Condon as Lawndale School District superintendent.

America turns 233 years old this Saturday, meaning it's time to throw a party. Pasadena's fortunate to be the home of Americafest, one of the largest fireworks celebrations in the country, and for the 80th year running offers a full day of family fun.

LA Mag editor and mid-century modernism junkie Chris Nichols paid a recent visit to the former site of the Ambassador Hotel, now the massive construction site for the future Central Los Angeles New Learning Center #1 . While all is lost of the former hotel, Nichols was contacted to help with the few elements being recreated, including the Paul ...

Are executive salaries too high? Should shareholders have a say in how much chief executives are paid? Should the government? The Obama administration recently hired Kenneth Feinberg as a "pay czar" to manage the compensation at companies that have taken taxpayer dollars, and announced support for legislative and regulatory efforts aimed at holding ...

THE headlines read: "Budget shot down again" or "Budget fails to pass again." But this is not really news.

The latest in a series of pedestrian safety deployments by the San Marino Police Department yesterday resulted in the issuance of 186 citations for failure to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk, the impounding of four vehicles, the arrest of three drivers and the booking of one driver who had an outstanding warrant at the LAPD.

A lecture on the life and legacy of Cardinal Timothy Manning, presented by his former priest-secretary, will be offered June 23 at Holy Family Church, South Pasadena.

Afterschool districts across California, including Los Angeles Unified, slashed summer school offerings to deal withstate budget cuts, parents have beenscrambling to find summer placements for their children.

City officials Monday defended a school bus sting last week that resulted in police issuing - and then trying to rescind - more than 150 traffic tickets to drivers who didn't stop for a school bus.

GPS systems left on car dashboards or windows are proving to be irresistible to crooks on the lookout for easy pickings.

South Pasadena's public schools got a big boost from voters, who have approved a parcel tax expected to raise about $2 million a year to save the jobs of at least 19 teachers and counselors, according to final vote results released Friday.

Jack McCarthy, known as the "Standup Poet," and Gypsy's Kiss will preform for free at 7 p.m. June 25 in the chambers of the South Pasadena City Council, 1414 Mission St.

A sting conducted by the South Pasadena Police Department Wednesday to bust people who don't stop for school buses flashing their red lights nabbed 160 people.

More than 160 people received $500 traffic citations Wednesday as part of a sting by the South Pasadena Police Department involving a decoy school bus complete with people walking on and off the vehicle.

Facing multibillion-dollar state funding cuts, school districts across California are asking residents to tax themselves to fund local schools.

Facing multibillion-dollar state funding cuts, school districts across California are asking residents to tax themselves to fund local schools.

"Final Stop Albuquerque" is the latest mystery by Alice Zogg. A South Pasadena woman disappears and is traced to the balloon festival in New Mexico; from there detective R.A. Huber and her assistant work to solve her murder while trying to keep safe themselves.

Just mention the cluster of 16 little Spanish-style houses hidden away on Marguerita Lane and out come the superlatives.

File photo of a white van that is similar to one allegedly involved in the attempted kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl on June 5, 2009.

After just three years on the job, Superintendent Brian Bristol has resigned from the 4,200-student South Pasadena Unified School District.