Pasadena Star-News
- Elon Musk unveils plans for the Hyperloop, a futuristic transportation system
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 11:45 PMAfter tweeting that he 'pulled an all-nighter,' Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveiled much-awaited details Monday about the Hyperloop, his concept of rapid transit from San Francisco to Los Angeles that he says would be faster and cheaper than California's plans for high-speed rail.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two Pasadena schools have new principals when school opens Wednesday
Tuesday - 08/13/2013 - 01:00 AMJohn Albert was named principal of the McKinley School and Jennifer Smith was named interim principal at the Norma Coombs Alternative School.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Blood drive in South Pasadena on Tuesday
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 06:09 PMHuntington Memorial Hospital's "Bloodmobile" will take donations on Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. outside of the South Pasadena Fire Department.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Social Calendar: Aug. 12
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 11:10 PM"Letters from Zora in Her Own Words" featuring Vanessa Bell Calloway portraying author Zora Neale Hurston.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NASA, aerospace industry depend on scale models to get message across
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 12:23 AMIn the lobbies at Southern California's aerospace companies, satellite, space telescope and rocket scale models boast of the region's technological ingenuity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Family of Rosemead woman killed by deputies claim shooting was 'unprovoked and malicious'
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 07:26 PMAttorneys for the family of a schizophrenic woman shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in January 2012 attended a mandatory mediation meeting Friday to discuss a lawsuit that names the Sheriff's Department and the clinic where she was shot as defendants.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Homicide victims' advocate and mother of slain teen calls for more rewards in unsolved cases
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 08:27 PMEvery victim of an unsolved homicide deserves to have a reward offered for information leading to capture and conviction of the killer or killers, according to a victims' advocate and mother of a murdered 16-year-old girl.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Steve Scauzillo: Assembly bill threatens to fry solar movement
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 10:57 PMWhat do Linda Hecht of Redlands, Laureen Pittman of Riverside and Joy Brown Meredith of Palm Springs have in common?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Special Report: Rewards for unsolved crimes in Los Angeles County rarely useful
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 12:09 AMOffering financial rewards to the public in exchange for help in solving violent crimes seems like an effective crime-fighting tool that would appeal to a common human desire for personal profit.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti addresses new LAPD officers
Friday - 08/09/2013 - 11:03 PMMayor Eric Garcetti spoke to a graduating class of the Los Angeles Police Academy Friday morning in Elysian Valley for the first time since taking office, and used his speech to highlight ties between the police force and his goals for the city's economic growth.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Arcadia Recall proponents: Letter from school board members motivates recall
Tuesday - 08/13/2013 - 12:24 AMThe popular cross-country coach who was removed from his post by the Arcadia school board Monday said a newspaper advertisement that sought to explain the move was ludicrous.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - San Marino's post office to remain open; personal service optional
Tuesday - 08/13/2013 - 01:00 AMSAN MARINO - The United States Postal Service won't close its San Marino post office, but it may transfer "carrier operations" to 600 Lincoln Ave. in Pasadena, a USPS spokesman said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - LAUSD giving principals, teachers 'live shooter' training
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 08:06 PMPrompted by last year's massacre in Newtown, Conn., Los Angeles Unified is instructing administrators and faculty in how to keep students safe if there's a gunman on campus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Patt Diroll: FIDM celebrates with Liberace's 'Lasagna'
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 11:26 PMThe Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the FIDM Museum held their seventh annual soiree on July 27, to open "The Outstanding Art of Television Costume Design" exhibition and to honor the designers who created the featured 120 costumes from 15 television shows that are on view.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bill would pool Caltech, Berkeley earthquake research for early warning system
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 07:17 PMA bill that would pool the research abilities of Caltech and UC Berkeley as well as create a statewide early earthquake warning system moved a step closer to the governor's desk as seismologists continue testing equipment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - More employers checking Twitter influence of potential hires
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 12:39 AMGetting Twitter followers is a bit like a game of Pokemon: gotta catch 'em all.
And as the 1 percent argument goes, the more you have, the more you're going to get, said Amanda MacArthur, director of content and marketing at BuzzFarmers, a company that manages social media profiles for
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Skateboard expo brings pros to San Fernando Valley
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 10:41 PMWhen Danny Scott's son Andrew started skateboarding, the entertainment-industry veteran saw an opportunity.
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Photo gallery: Skate Expo brings pros to San Fernando Valley - Database: Rewards offered for information leading to conviction
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 11:04 PMFrom January 2008 to April 2013, 372 rewards were offered by the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for information leading to the conviction of a suspect or suspects in criminal cases.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- STAR test questions and answers posted to social media at 16 schools
Friday - 08/09/2013 - 10:19 PMState education officials remained confident Friday that the leaking of questions from a statewide test to social media did not result in massive cheating on the exam taken last spring.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Marijuana marks a milestone; first banned in California 100 years ago
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 12:32 AMStevie Zee awkwardly lights up a bong with his spastic hands. Stricken with cerebral palsy after almost being strangled in the womb by his umbilical cord, the 41-year-old Valley Village resident takes a few puffs of medical marijuana and immediately feels relief.
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- Frank Girardot: 'Breaking Bad's' Dean Norris shines
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 11:48 PMBetween sets, the four members of Thunderheart, a low-rent country/rock bar band, stood in the parking lot of the Winchester Inn on a late winter's night.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Court throws out LAPD impound policy that allowed officers to release cars of unlicensed drivers
Tuesday - 08/13/2013 - 01:31 AMA Superior Court judge on Wednesday threw out a controversial Los Angeles Police Department policy that allowed officers to release impounded vehicles to unlicensed drivers sooner than the 30-day period spelled out under state law.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rescued San Diego teen awaits reunion with father in Idaho
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 02:56 PMCASCADE, Idaho - A San Diego teen missing for more than a week after she was abducted by a man suspected of killing her mother and brother has been rescued, her captor killed, and a reunion with her father was expected Sunday at an Idaho hospital.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sid Gally: The Pacific Crest Trail had its roots in Pasadena
Sunday - 08/11/2013 - 11:32 PMThe recent best-seller by Sheryl Strayed titled "Wild" has brought much attention to the Pacific Crest Trail, the mountainous path from Canada to Mexico.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Back to school means big changes, challenges at LAUSD
Monday - 08/12/2013 - 01:01 AMThe start of classes Tuesday will launch a watershed year for Los Angeles Unified as it rolls out a new curriculum, toughens its graduation requirements and launches an innovative system for dealing with disruptive students.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lead paint manufacturers facing California challenge
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 02:18 PMIn April, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised to 535,000 its estimate of the number of American children with potentially dangerous levels of lead in their blood.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Belly - new customer loyalty program - reaches Los Angeles
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 10:41 PMLos Angeles is about to get a belly full of a new customer loyalty program. But do we have the appetite for it?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local water district announces new generators
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 11:42 PMFoothill Municipal Water District has announced a $1.6 million project to replace and upgrade 25-year-old emergency standby generators at pumping stations in Pasadena and La Canada Flintridge.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robert Rector: San Diego mayor is FREAKS award winner
Saturday - 08/10/2013 - 09:59 PMThere's a beauty pageant of sorts taking place in our fair land these days. Perhaps "beauty" is a poor choice of words.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Letter explains firing of popular Arcadia cross country coach
Friday - 08/09/2013 - 11:20 PMSchool board members for the first time Friday shed light into the firing of Arcadia High's cross country coach, saying a "win at any cost" mentality and disregard for CIF-SS rules led to his dismissal.
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