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Dr. William A. Stark, 84, a retired dentist who had several medical issues, died after he and his wife endured months of pandemic visitation restrictions at his Arcadia nursing home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35863
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 8, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 8, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Deaths
Huntington Drive Health and Rehabilitation Center
Nursing homes
Pandemics
Stark, Melody Taylor
Stark, William A.
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Track, music world revered Jerry Moss. Jerry Moss, co-founder of A & M Records in 1962, was known as a big horse racing fan and owner of the great mare Zenyatta, the only female to win Breeders' Cup Classic in 2009 at Santa Anita Park. He was also a member of the California Horse Racing Board. He was 88 when he died on August 16 in his Bel Air home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36526
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2023
Pages
p. B8
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 25, 2023
Pages
p. B8
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Moss, Jerry
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Newspaper Index
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James Val, a veteran film and television producer loves to decorate his Arcadia home for Christmas. He won a Holiday Decoration Award by the Arcadia Beautiful Commission.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 2, 2021
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 2, 2021
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Beautiful Commission
Christmas
Holidays
Houses
Val, James
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Judge found that a man was sane at the time of the bludgeoning deaths of his then-estranged wife's two teenage nephews in the boys' Arcadia home. Deyun Shi is on trial for the murders of 15-year-old Anthony Lin, who was asleep when attacked with bolt cutters, and 16-year-old brother William Lin, who was killed while studying in a separate room, on January 22, 2016. Shi was found giulty on two counts of first-degree murder.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36650
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2024
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2024
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Shi, Deyun
Moses, Jared (Judge)
Murders
Trials
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Officials deport wine con man Rudy Kurniawan, who bilked collectors out of millions of dollars. He is back in Indonesia. He was putting less expensive Napa and Burgundy wines into counterfeit bottles at his home in Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 15, 2021
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 15, 2021
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Fraud
Kurniawan, Rudy
Wines
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Newspaper Index
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Man hospitalized yesterday after explosion of possible illegal butane honey oil drug lab in a commercial building in Arcadia. At 2;23 PM, Arcadia Fire Department responded to a fire in the 11700 block of Goldring Road and determined an explosion had happened and found a man inside. He was taken to the hospital due to the severity of his burns. Honey oil is described as a marijuana concentrate made by extracting THC from marijuana.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36155
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2022
Pages
p. A9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2022
Pages
p. A9
Subjects
Fires
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
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Newspaper Index
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Man, 52, gets two life sentences for killing his nephews in Arcadia. Deyun Shi will spend the rest of his life in prison without a chance for parole for killing 15-year-old Anthony Lin and 16-year-old William Lin in their Arcadia home on the 400 block of Fairview Avenue, and for attacking his now-former wife Amy Lin, at the couple's La Canada Flintridge residence.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36683
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 3, 2024
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 3, 2024
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Domestic abuse
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Shi, Deyun
Moses, Jared (Judge)
Murders
Trials
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park looking for a brighter future. When Aidan Butler, Executive Director of California Racing Operations for The Stronach Group took over at Santa Anita about a year ago, he couldn't have envisioned the road blocks his first year--heavy rains that postponed opening day, the COVID-19 pandemic, recent brush fires that forced the fall meet to be postponed. He discusses the difficulties this year, the new turf chute and the future.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35809
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2020
Pages
p. B6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2020
Pages
p. B6
Subjects
Butler, Aidan
Fires
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Stronach Group
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Tim Yakteen, a trainer who was an apprentice under Bob Baffert earlier in his career, brings two top horses to the Kentucky Derby. He is the trainer in charge at Churchill Downs. Includes biographical information.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2022
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2022
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Churchill Downs
Horses and horse racing
Kentucky Derby
Trainers
Yakteen, Tim
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Chen Suen becomes first Asian American fire chief in Arcadia. He takes over from Barry Spriggs who retired November 8, after 29 years of service. Suen is an Arcadia resident. He emigrated from Taiwan. He graduated from Arcadia High School, and attended Loyola Law School, UC Irvine, and Santa Ana College, before spending the last 18 years with Arcadia Fire Department.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36371
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 15, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A7
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Chiefs
Arcadia Fire Department
Asian-Americans
Spriggs, Barry
Suen, Chen
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Newspaper Index
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Flames continue north to homes. Residents evacuate as Bobcat Fire jumps Highway 2, tops mountain ridge, menaces Antelope Valley. The 50,539-acre fire which once primarily threatened San Gabriel Valley foothill communities after it started on September 6, jumped Highway 2 overnight and continues to spread north, putting Antelope Valley under an evacuation warning. Evacuation warnings were still in place for parts of Monrovia, Arcadia, Duarte, Bradbury, Sierra Madre, Pasadena, and Altadena, though evacuation orders in parts of Sierra Madre and Arcadia were lifted Wednesday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35806
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2020
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Angeles National Forest
Bobcat Fire
Fires
San Gabriel Mountains
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Electrical accident blamed for deadly house fire in unincorporated county area near Arcadia that left 3 people dead and 2 others injured. It happened to a two-story home in the 5300 block of Tyler Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36615
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2024
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2024
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Deaths
Fires
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park targets May 15 to resume live racing. Track makes plan to race when county stay-at-home order could be lifted, pending approval from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2020
Pages
p. B1, B3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2020
Pages
p. B1, B3
Subjects
Butler, Aidan
Coronavirus-COVID-19
Diseases
Epidemics
Horses and horse racing
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Pandemics
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Viruses
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Mailbag topic-George "The Iceman" Woolf was a Canadian jockey famous for riding the great Seabiscuit to victories in 1938. The 35-year-old was unseated from his horse Please Me during a race on January 3, 1946, suffered a concussion and died the next day. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Gene Autry sane at his funeral.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36439
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 2023
Pages
p. B8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 2023
Pages
p. B8
Subjects
Woolf, George
Horses and horse racing
Jockeys
Santa Anita Park
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Newspaper Index
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Turf mare Going to Vegas looks to cash out in Kentucky. In photo: Going to Vegas and jockey Umberto Rispoli after winning the $300,000 Grade I Rodeo Drive Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36341
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 14, 2022
Pages
p. B8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 14, 2022
Pages
p. B8
Subjects
Horses and horse racing
Rispoli, Umberto
Santa Anita Park-2021-2030
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Newspaper Index
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Judge rejects Bob Baffert's stay, delays suspension to April 4. Kentucky Horse Racing Commission suspended trainer Bob Baffert for questions surrounding dead race horse Medina Spirit having the corticosteroid betamethasone in his system when he won the Kentucky Derby last year. Medina Spirit has been stripped of that title.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 22, 2022
Pages
p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 22, 2022
Pages
p. B2
Subjects
Baffert, Bob
Horses and horse racing
Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Horse Racing Commission
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Newspaper Index
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With the House of Representatives leaderless and legislation going nowhere, President Biden has been urged to expand the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. More cities, elected officials, ask president to use his executive power to add acreage to the area, including Alhambra, Monterey Park, Santa Clarita and South Pasadena. The proposed addition of 109,000 ares to the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument includes forest sections just above the cities of Monrovia, Arcadia, and Sierra Madre, and up to Santa Clarita.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 16, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 16, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Biden, Joe
Chu, Judy
Forests
Legislation
San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
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Newspaper Index
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Fire Chief Michael Lang is leaving Arcadia Fire Department to be Fire Chief at Manhattan Beach. He was with Arcadia Fire Department for 21 years, including 5 as chief. He starts at Manhattan Beach Fire Department on June 21.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35976
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A9
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A9
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Department--employees
Lang, Michael
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Judge won't dismiss sentence enhancements to Deyun Shi, man accused of killing his 2 teenage nephews in their Arcadia home in 2016.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35905
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 3, 2021
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 3, 2021
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Shi, Deyun aka Shi, Jeff
Murders
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Damage saps fun from Angeles forest. Angeles National Forest's Chantry Flat Road remains closed after suffering damage from the 2020 Bobcat fire and subsequent fires. Storms and fires force closure of trails, roads and campgrounds, some for years. The forest's second-most visited area, Chantry Flat, in the section north of Arcadia, Monrovia and Sierra Madre, has been closed since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. A sign in Arcadia (photo) advises motorists of the Chantry Flat Road closure.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36507
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 18, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 18, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Angeles National Forest
Bobcat Fire
Chantry Flat
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Newspaper Index
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