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Suspect in Arcadia murder-suicide leaves son a note. Couple was going through contentious divorce. Couple was identified as Mel Liu, 49, and Cherry Liu, 50 year old. Mel Liu left a letter to their 14 year old son trying to explain the fatal steps he took. Cherry Liu was well known through her work at Arcadia Chamber of Commerce and Sierra Madre Senior Services.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35251
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35440AN
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Two shot to death Wednesday morning, August 1, in the alley near 816 Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia. Los Angeles Sheriff Department says it looks like a murder-suicide. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the second victim later died at hospital from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Later identified as Mel Liu and Cherry Liu, an estranged married couple.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35245
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35434AN
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Arcadia City Council urges citizens to help with voter fraud investigation and City Attorney Stephen Dietsch provided direction on the city's efforts to investigate several allegations against Mayor Pro Tempore Sho Tay and Dietsch explained the Ralph M. Brown Act.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35161
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 3, 2018
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p. 1, 14
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 3, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 14
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Tay, Sho
Verlato, April
Item ID
35350AN
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Arcadia police investigate death of Temple City man Chun Yen Liu, 40. His body was found in the wash near Naomi Avenue and El Monte Avenue on October 28.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34706
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 3, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 12
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 3, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 12
Subjects
Deaths
Liu, Chun Yen
Item ID
34898AN
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Deyun Shi declared incompetent to defend himself for murdering Arcadia teenagers William Lin and Anthony Lin.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34787
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 26, 2017
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p. 1, 6
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 26, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 6
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Murder
Shi, Deyun
Item ID
34978AN
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Arcadia City Council member Sho Tay aims to bridge city's cultural gap between Chinese immigrants and Caucasians. Tay says there are three distinct batches of Chinese immigrants. The first came from Taiwan in the 1980s and went to college here. The second came from Hong Kong after Tiananmen Square, and the third, most recent, batch is from mainland China. They came with wealth.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34641
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 11, 2016
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p. 1, 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 11, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Asian-Americans
Chinese-Americans
Chinese immigrants
Tay, Sho
Item ID
34833AN
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City of Arcadia hosts 45th annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast. Mayor Sho Tay will deliver the State of the City Address on February 7 at the Arcadia Community Center.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35450
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 10, 2019
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p. 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 10, 2019
Pages
p. 10
Subjects
Arcadia mayors
Tay, Sho
Item ID
35642AN
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Arcadia City Council extends olive branch to Arcadia's new mayor Sho Tay; April Verlato is Mayor Pro Tem.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35195
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 7, 2018
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p. 1, 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 7, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Arcadia City Council Elections-2018
Mayors
Tay, Sho
Verlato, April
Item ID
35384AN
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Humorist Dorothy Denne (photo) honored by Arcadia City Council for her 23 years of laughter as the long-time Arcadia Weekly columnist of "Dorothy's Place." See also page 5, Fasching's Car Wash tribute to Denne.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34732
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 8, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 8, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Columnists
Denne, Dorothy
Journalists
Writers
Item ID
34924AN
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Murder victim identified as Chyong Jen Tsai. Her body was found in the 300 block of East Forest Avenue, outside her house in the garden.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35508
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Chyong, Jen Tsai
Crime and Criminals
Murder
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The next Arcadia city council election in April will be an all-mail ballot, that is saving the city thousands of dollars. The five candidates for two seats are Arcadia Mayor Gary Kovacic, John Wuo, Sho Tay, Henry Nunez and Mary Dougherty.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32789
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 19, 2012
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p. 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 19, 2012
Pages
p. 11
Subjects
Arcadia City Council elections--2012
Dougherty, Mary
Kovacic, Gary
Nunez, Henry
Tay, Sho
Wuo, John
Item ID
32986AN
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20-year-old man Jason Scott Gustin found guilty of attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend in Arcadia. On August 22, 2016, according to testimony at trial, Gustin met near Arcadia and sat in his car to talk when he pulled out a knife and slashed her throat and then began strangling her. As the victim tried to escape, he stabbed her multiple times. She ran away to a nearby convalescent home. He was arrested a short time later after he showed up at his mother’s workplace in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35297
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
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p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gustin, Jason Scott
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
35486AN
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Arcadia Mayor Peter Amundson calls for "cooling off" period after impassioned, intense City Council meeting. Council delays decision to select a mayor for 45 days in light of pending investigations of nominee Sho Tay.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35165
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2018
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p. 1, 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 26, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Amundson, Peter
Tay, Sho
Item ID
35354AN
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Arcadia seeks residents to serve on newly formed Citizen's Financial Advisory Committee to help review City's long-term financial forecast, provide recommendations to City Council for revenue enhancements and cost containment.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35111
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 8, 2018
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 8, 2018
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Citizen's Financial Advisory Committee
Item ID
35299AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Police and City Clerk investigate Arcadia City Council candidate Sho Tay's mail-in election ballot collection effort. Tay had enlisted the help of students from the Democratic Club at Arcadia High School to offer residents of Arcadia stamps for the mail-in postcard. See hard copy in VF City Council Elections 2014.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33780
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 20, 2014
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p. 1, 21
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 20, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 21
Subjects
City Council Elections (2014)
Tay, Sho
Item ID
33975AN
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Doug Martin Contracting, Inc. will handle Arcadia's annual slurry seal project. The project will take place on city streets between Duarte Road and the south city limit, and between Santa Anita Avenue and the east city limit, started July 29, to be done August 23, 2013.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33593
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 22, 2013
Pages
p. 20
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 22, 2013
Pages
p. 20
Subjects
Doug Martin Contracting, Inc.
Street maintenance
Item ID
33788AN
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Arcadia City Council denies consideration for first application in the Friendship Cities Program, proposed by council member Sho Tay for a friendship between Arcadia and Dongfang City, Hainan Province, China. A majority of council members are concerned about the politics in supporting a city in China that is currently embroiled in the South China Seas protests, such as Hong Kong.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35622
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 21, 2019
Pages
p. 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 21, 2019
Pages
p. 11
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Friendship Cities Program
Tay, Sho
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Floretta K. Lauber Museum Education Center (MEC) dedicated in Arcadia in her name, upon the 1 year anniversary of her death. Lauber died August 1, 2016 and the MEC broke ground September 29, 2013. She was Arcadia's first woman to serve as mayor.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34937
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 3, 2017
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p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 3, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage
Floretta K. Lauber Museum Education Center (MEC)
Item ID
35127AN
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Dorothy Denne, longtime Arcadia humorist, "Mother of the Force" honored by Arcadia Police Foundation at the Arcadia Police Foundation's Halloween Hoopla. Arcadia Mayor April Verlato and her husband attended. For 20 years, Dorothy wrote a weekly column called "Dorothy's Place" in Arcadia Weekly. She was a teacher for her career and has been a volunteer at the Arcadia Police Department. In 2015 she spearheaded the effort to bring back the K-9 program.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35595
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 24, 2019
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 24, 2019
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Arcadia Police Foundation
Denne, Dorothy
Miller, Terry
Volunteers
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Remembering Charles Gilb on Veterans Day. Biography of Charles Gilb, "Potato King," a former Staff Sergeant in the Marine Corps, businessman in the produce industry and former Arcadia City Council member. He served four terms as mayor.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35610
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 14, 2019
Pages
p. 3
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 14, 2019
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council
Biographies
Gilb, Charles
Mayors
Veterans
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