Arcadia News

A diet center doctor who authorities say ordered more of a certain prescription painkiller than any other physician in the nation has pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge.

Three months ago Jian Ming Liang was convicted of child endangerment and had his 9-year-old daughter legally handed over to her mother in San Jose, according to San Jose police.

On Thursday, July 16, help the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce celebrate 75 years. At noon, visit the Arcadia Historical Museum, 380 W. Huntington Drive, for a Brown Bag Lunch series on the history of the chamber.

Arcata is well and deservedly known as an alternative to the real world. Because, though there are some things you can never, ever do here, people somehow have.

The Pasadena Playhouse District kicked off its free summer concert series last night with a terrific performance by the Dave Hamm trio.

Preliminary drilling began this week for a bridge across the Foothill Freeway designed to serve as an "iconic" gateway into the San Gabriel Valley.

Members of the San Gabriel Valley-based American Chinese Culture Association rehearse a fan and waist drum dance in Alhambra, Saturday, June 20, 2009.

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Rosemary Children's Services held its major fundraising event of the year, the 44th Annual "An Evening with Star Chefs," on Saturday, June 23, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia.

Hear about the history of the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce at a "Brown Bag Lunch Talk" from noon to 12:30 p.m. July 16 at the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum, 380 W. Huntington Drive.

Cities around the state, including several local ones, are squaring up for a legal fight with the state over money.

Rosemary Children's Services presents its 46th annual "Evening with Star Chefs" from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Santa Anita Park, 285 W. Huntington Drive.

Police ended a seven-hour standoff Monday morning only to find an elderly man in his house and discovered the alleged gunman slipped away.

Both boys came down with a horrendous cough on the last day of school, so these first lazy days of summer vacation find us in a haze of humidifier steam, with the kids stooped over more steam from their warm drinks.

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Arcadia Public Library's summer reading program will run from June 20 to Aug. 1. The six-week program promotes reading as a fun activity during the summer.

Making deep cuts across the board, including freezing positions and cutting employee travel, the Arcadia City Council has approved a $46 million budget for fiscal year 2009-10. "We went to the budget and just trimmed the heck out of stuff, item by item," City Manager Don Penman said.

The noodle with fermented bean sauce at Bean Sprouts Vegetarian Restaurant in Arcadia.

A tractor-trailer truck filled with produce overturned and spilled fruit and fuel on Interstate 210 near Pasadena, forcing the shutdown of all eastbound lanes of the freeway and promising traffic troubles well into morning rush hour.

It's the first crack in a wall that has to come down before California's budget crisis can be solved.