South Pasadena News

Police are looking for a 22-year-old man accused of stabbing a college student at a party on the campus of UC Irvine early Friday morning.

A South Pasadena mother shakes hands with a bicycle police patrol officer on May 16, 2013, at Marengo Elementary.

A mother and her 17-year-old daughter were injured when a driver heading the wrong way crashed head-on with their vehicle during the weekend, police said.

PASADENA >> After a yearlong search, federal officials have named Options, a veteran Pasadena nonprofit agency, to take over local the Head Start programs that have been under emergency management since the previous operator abruptly closed all its 15 local sites in October 2011.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a South Pasadena, Calif.-based wealth-management company and its former fund manager with conducting a three-year-long insider-trading spree in shares of Dell had agreed to buy it in 2009 -- reaping $475,000 in gains and "avoided losses" from the first scheme, and $247,000 from the second.

The murders, attempted murders, rapes, assaults, robberies and thefts of Night Stalker Richard Ramirez forever changed law and order in Los Angeles County.

Esotouric's Pasadena Confidential crime bus tour exposes the grit of the city , including a look at the Sphinx Murder.

Jiimmy Dore has a lot to say about the state of America, and he uses many different platforms to say it.

A still image from a YouTube video showing the skater in blue and gray assaulting a custodian at South Pasadena Middle School in a June 4, 2013, altercation.

Should you find yourself pitching along in El Sereno, a hilly eastern suburb of downtown Los Angeles that's sandwiched between Alhambra's Chinese food takeover and the mansions of South Pasadena, you'll probably end up talking to Clarita Trujillo.

Lauren Small and her bedbug-sniffing dog, Honey, demonstrates what she does at Falco K9 Academy in Brea on Friday May 31, 2013.

Here are some editor's picks for the top things to do this weekend in the San Gabriel Valley and nearby areas.

He missed last Friday's graduation ceremonies to work on his one goal for this season: Win CIF State track and field championships in the 1,600 and 3,200 meters.

Partying is more fun when a large group is involved, and people should expect crowds to show up to Parti Gras on Saturday from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. For $120, people can attend the festive fundraiser at the Arroyo Seco Golf Course at 1055 Lohman Lane.

There's more technology in this master suite than you'd typically find in an entire house - all integrated seamlessly.

Bittersweet Treats co-owner and pastry chef Danielle Keene has always wanted to do her own thing.

She was visiting her mother in Burbank, California, on Monday, when a four-alarm fire broke out in a nearby carpet and flooring company.

Gentrification is the metamorphosis of an established neighborhood, transforming like larva from scary cocoon to lovely butterfly.

Woman's Club Member Katie Longoria and South Pasadena High School volunteer Renee Louie baked more than 1,000 "flag cookies" in May 2012.

Author Sharon Bise offers parents and children a new resource for coping with the anxieties about the first day of kindergarten in her latest children's book, " Jay's First Day at School " . "My co-worker had a son, Jay, who was beginning kindergarten and was frightened about taking this big step into the unknown," Bise explains.