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Steven Chavez, 16, of Duarte, earns Eagle Scout status after he organizes a blood drive for his mother's friend Alexandra Razo. Razo has a disease called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30821
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 9, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 9, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Blood drives
Boy Scouts
Chavez, Steven
Eagle Scouts
Razo, Alexandra
Item ID
31009AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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New principal of Arcadia High School, David L. Vannasdall, 36, talks about his midwest background and the core values he brings to his new job.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29769
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Principals
Vannasdall, David L.
Item ID
29954AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Profile and biography of jockey George Woolf, also known as Iceman. Woolf rode race horse Seabiscuit to fame in 1938. He died in 1946. There is a statue in his memory at Santa Anita Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33305
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2001
Pages
p. 1, 9
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2001
Pages
p. 1, 9
Subjects
Jockeys
Statuary
Woolf, George
Item ID
33501AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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County officials are offering a $20,000 reward for information in the slaying of Jason Wei, an Arcadia restaurant owner. He was held up and shot at his Osaka Ya Restaurant on November 25, 2007.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31490
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 27, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Osaka Ya Restaurant
Wei, Jason
Item ID
31685AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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War veteran Mike Velarde, 78, of Arcadia, tricked his Spanish-speaking mother into signing the paperwork to enlist in the U.S. Army at age 16. He had served in the Korean War. A photo of Velarde is shown in honor of Memorial Day. He remembers his wartime buddies who did not make it home alive.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32979
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 20, 2012
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 20, 2012
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Memorial Day
Velarde, Mike
Veterans
Item ID
33176AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A jury convicts Isaac Campbell, 37, of voluntary manslaughter in the death of his girlfriend Liya "Jessie" Lu, whose body was found in a trash can, covered with kitty litter, at Campbell's friend's house in the 1700 block of South Baldwin Avenue in Arcadia, in 2007.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32989
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 9, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 9, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Campbell, Isaac
Crime and Criminals
Homicide
Lu, Liya "Jessie"
Murder
Trials
Item ID
33186AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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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
Pages
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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Newspaper Index
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A 55-year-old Arcadia man was shot dead at Chantry Flat Campground on April 28, 2011. His name has not been released. He died at Huntington Hospital.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32387
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2011
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 30, 2011
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chantry Flat Campground
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Shootings
Item ID
32585AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Lou Carno has been an Arcadia resident for 53 years and is a longtime horse trainer. One of his early jobs was working as a groom for race horse Seabiscuit's owner, C.S. Howard. Carno served in the U.S. Marine Corps, earned his CA Trainers License in 1952. He trained for celebrity horse owners such as Betty Grable, Desi Arnaz, and Burt Bacharach, and others. He is 83 now and semi-retired.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31595
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 3, 2003
Pages
p. 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 3, 2003
Pages
p. 11
Subjects
Carno, Lou - biography
Horse trainers
Item ID
31792AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Family and friends mourn the loss of Sergeant Kyle A. Colnot who was killed in Iraq by a bomb. He had attended Arcadia High School in his sophomore and junior years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30011
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Colnot, Sgt. Kyle Arnold
Soldiers
Deaths
Iraq War
Item ID
30198AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Police Chief David Hinig bestowed the Police Department's Medal of Merit on Detective Stan Flores and Life Saving medals on patrol officers John Jurman and Jennifer Casillas.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24974
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 26, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 26, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Police Department - Medal of Merit
Police Department - Life Saving Medal
Police - Flores, Stan
Police - Jurman, John
Police - Casillas, Jennifer
Item ID
25171AN
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Newspaper Index
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This article profiles the local business Knight Cleaners. Owned by Peter Delgatto, Jr., and his mother Marilyn Delgatto, it celebrates 40 years in business.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30748
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 8, 2007
Pages
p. News 11
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 8, 2007
Pages
p. News 11
Subjects
Business and Industry
Delgatto, Marilyn
Delgatto, Peter, Jr.
Dry cleaning
Dry cleaners
Knight Cleaners
Item ID
30936AN
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Newspaper Index
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Deqiang Song, 26, of Monterey Park, gets life in prison without possibility of parole, for the crime of kidnapping for ransom, and a second sentence of life in prison plus four years, for the attempted murder of his then 21-year-old victim. Song met his victim through a mutual friend and took her to Westfield Santa Anita mall in Arcadia on September 8, 2010. Then he took her to a remote area of desert in San Bernardino County. He strangled the woman and slit her throat. He called her father for ransom. She survived.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32970
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 11, 2012
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 11, 2012
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Song, DeQiang
Trials
Item ID
33167AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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At the request of the Medical Board of California, the license of Dr. Zhiwei Lin, an Arcadia-based neurologist, was temporarily suspended starting July 28, pending a determination of his fitness to practice medicine. He allegedly sold prescriptions for controlled substances, such as Vicodin, to an undercover federal agent.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32476
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 2011
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 3, 2011
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Doctors
Lin, Zhiwei
Item ID
32672AN
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Newspaper Index
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Bowen Du, 19, a Pasadena City College student, was charged with felony vehicular manslaughter in the death of 16-year-old Arcadia High School student Alice Zhang on April 10. In court, he said he was sorry and did not mean to do it. He was a graduate of Arcadia High School in 2010 and a private first class in the U.S. Army Reserve. His arraignment was continued until June 28. Du has no prior criminal record. Arcadia police have said the car's windshield was "excessively dirty" and that "this vision obstruction, combined with the setting sun at the time of the collision, played a major role in the cause of the collision." Du was driving about 30 mph when he struck Zhang and her friend on the 600 block of West Duarte Road.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32405
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 17, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 17, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Deaths
Du, Bowen
Pedestrians--safety
Traffic Accidents
Zhang, Alice
Item ID
32603AN
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Newspaper Index
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Teacher Brandon Michael Landreth, 30, of Pasadena, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Pasadena Superior Court. He allegedly confessed to his ex-wife that he shot 25-year old Justo Cesar Morales to death at his parents' Canyon Road home in Northern Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30978
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Landreth, Brandon Michael
Morales, Justo Cesar
Murders
Item ID
31173AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The trial of Isaac Campbell, a San Gabriel man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Liya "Jessie" Lu and stuffing her body in a trash can at his friend Michael Darby's home in Arcadia, has begun at Alhambra Superior Court.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32653
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 8, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Campbell, Isaac
Crime and Criminals
Darby, Michael
Homicide
Lu, Liya "Jessie"
Murder trials
Trials
Item ID
32850AN
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Newspaper Index
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Peruvian jockey Rafael Bejarano joined horse racing royalty when he became the first rider since Laffit Pincay (in 1979-1981) to win three consecutive Santa Anita Park riding titles. He is 28 years old. He credits the late Bobby Frankel for opening doors for him in California. Bejarano is known to be loving, kind and never abusive to his horses. (Photos).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31977
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2010
Pages
p. B1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2010
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Bejarano, Rafael
Frankel, Bobby
Jockeys
Item ID
32174AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Richard Robert Russo pleads not guilty to charges of murder and child abuse and the judge denies his motion for bail. He is accused of shooting his wife Carmen.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29673
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 2, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 2, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Russo, Carmen
Russo, Richard Robert ("Rick")
Shapiro, Robert
Arraignments
Crime and Criminals
Murders
Russo murder
Item ID
29859AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Unified School District superintendent David Vannasdall will be paid $205,000 annually, agreed to for a 3-year contract. Vannasdall, 45, was named the district's new chief after Joel Shawn retired. Vannasdall had been deputy superintendent and previously principal of Arcadia High School from 2005 through 2012. His car allowance is $850/month, $150/month for expenses, and a $1,000 annual salary increase if he completes his doctorate degree.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33892
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 10, 2014
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 10, 2014
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District employees--superintendents
Vannasdall, David
Item ID
34086AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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