Pasadena rate hikes needed to fix streets, sewers SOUTH PASADENA - City Water Manager Marcelino Aguilar walked along the outer rim of the circular roof of the Wilson Reservoir, pointing out a dip in the center where the roof has collapsed.
Toro obtains industry license - PASADENA - Gonzalez Goodale Architects (www.gonzalezgoodale.com), a design-focused, award-winning architecture firm, has announced that Noel Toro has successfully obtained his professional California architectural license.
Panetta is savvy pick for CIA reform I first met Leon Panetta in 1966. We were both working as legislative assistants in the U.S. Senate - Leon for progressive Republican Sen. Tom Kuchel of California and I for maverick Democratic Sen. Bill Proxmire of Wisconsin.
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST - Officials are working to recover a body found Sunday in the forest north of La Crescenta, authorities said.
Alleged drunken driver crashes into hearse COVINA - A man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Saturday after crashing into a hearse carrying a body to a funeral, authorities said.
The rate of people dying in Los Angeles County motorcycle crashes has almost doubled over the past eight years, according to data from the California Highway Patrol.
TEMPLE CITY - When Barack Obama gets sworn in on Jan. 20 as the nation's first black president, a group of area students will be witnessing the historic occasion in person, thanks to the extra-credit efforts of one of their teachers.
Pasadena author Weston DeWalt attended a memorial Mass in Simi Valley in honor of Tommy Bowman last week, a half-century after the 8-year-old boy vanished in the foothills above Altadena.
Celia Ayala, chief operating officer of Los Angeles Universal Preschool, has been appointed by the governor to serve on a committee aimed at helping improve and fund quality early education programs.
Floating on air
Float design and production firm Festival Artists Worldwide was honored by the Tournament of Roses for all four of its 2009 Rose Parade floats.
TEMPLE CITY - If Friday's Blair-Temple City high school boys basketball game is any indicator of how the rest of the Rio Hondo League will play out, then fans are in for quite a wild ride.
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