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A 13-year-old female was critically injured after a motorist lost control of a vehicle and struck her in front of Dana Middle School. A surgical team decided to amputate the lower portion of her right leg 5 inches below knee.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 25, 2003

Pages: p. 1, 19

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 25, 2003

Pages: p. 1, 19

Subjects: Automobile accidents; Dana Middle School

Item ID: 32926AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Sixty-four year old Fuzhi Ji and his two-year-old grandson died after a hit and run accident at Santa Anita Avenue and Bonita Street left them with fatal injuries.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 20, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 20, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Accidents; Deaths; Ji, Fuzhi

Item ID: 30576AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Authorities have released Joshua Connole of Pomona, a suspect in the August 22 vehicle vandalisms labeled by FBI as acts of ecoterrorism. More than $2 million in damage was caused by vandals claiming affiliation with the Earth Liberation Front. High-end sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and other vehicles at the Rusnak Mercedes Benz dealership in Arcadia, Advantage Ford in Monrovia, Clippinger Chevrolet in West Covina, and Duarte Mitsubishi were torched and spray painted.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 18, 2003

Pages: p. 1, 15

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 18, 2003

Pages: p. 1, 15

Subjects: Connole, Joshua; Crime and Criminals; Ecoterrorism; Sport utility vehicles (SUVs); Vandalism

Item ID: 32321AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Rumor's bar owner Scott Hammond shot and killed a suspect trying to break into his bar located at 48 E. Huntington Drive. Separately, the merchant of AM Donuts on Las Tunas wounded one of two suspects trying to rob his store.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 9, 2002

Pages: p. 1, 25

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 9, 2002

Pages: p. 1, 25

Subjects: AM Donuts; Crime and Criminals; Hammond, Scott; King, Chet; Robbery; Rumor's; Shootings

Item ID: 30492AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Victoria's Secret store in the Westfield Santa Anita Shoppingtown has been hit by thieves in recent months. $3,000 in merchandise was stolen in the past month. Thieves accounted for roughly $150,000 in losses last year alone.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: April 17, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: April 17, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Crime and Criminals; Retail stores; Thefts; Underwear; Victoria's Secret

Item ID: 31423AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Christina Aragon, Assistant Superintendent of business services at Arcadia Unified School District, totaled her district car that she uses as a personal vehicle. It is part of her salary package. Arcadia School Board members and Superintendent Mimi Hennessy defended Aragon in media coverage.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 28, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 28, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Aragon, Christina; Arcadia Unified School District; Automobile accidents; Cayer, Margaret; Takamura, Vickie

Item ID: 30389AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The FBI is tracking vandals who caused an estimated $2.5 million in damage across San Gabriel Valley area sport utility vehicle dealerships. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for these acts of ecoterrorism.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 28, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 28, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Crime and Criminals; Earth Liberation Front (ELF); Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV); Vandalism

Item ID: 32041AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The City Council offers $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and charging of the killer(s) of Arcadia resident Charlotte Cole. The City Council offers a $15,000 reward for information leading to the killer of two hit and run victims. The victims were an elderly man and his grandson.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 22, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 22, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Cole, Charlotte; Murders - unsolved; Rewards

Item ID: 30700AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia police officers Robin Letorneau and Matt Kraut were given Life Saving Medals and Citations for saving the life of a 54-year-old man in a smoke-filled room at the Santa Anita Inn.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 10, 2003

Pages: p. 13

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 10, 2003

Pages: p. 13

Subjects: Awards - honors - recognitions; Kraut, Matt; Letorneau, Robin

Item ID: 31821AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia resident Olivia Wong, 19, is a college student on a paid internship at College Works Painting. She will learn to run all aspects of a small business.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 9, 2002

Pages: p. 5

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 9, 2002

Pages: p. 5

Subjects: College Works Painting; Internships; Small business; Wong, Olivia

Item ID: 30491AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia police pursued and arrested armed suspects after they robbed a Wells Fargo Bank at 211 East Foothill Boulevard. The suspects were Wilfredo Ramirez, Aaron Allen, Melonie Young, and Robert Burnham.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 11, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 11, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Allen, Aaron; Bank robbery; Burnham, Robert; Crime and Criminals; Ramirez, Wilfredo; Young, Melonie

Item ID: 30669AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Four suspects involved in an Arcadia bank robbery had their original bail amounts increased from $35,000 to $280,000 and upwards of $300,000. The suspects were Wilfredo Ramirez, Aaron Allen, Melonie Young, and Robert Burnham.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 18, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: July 18, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Allen, Aaron; Bank robbery; Burnham, Robert; Crime and Criminals; Ramirez, Wilfredo; Young, Melonie

Item ID: 30685AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Mimi Hennessy, Superintendent of Arcadia Unified School District, writes in response to anonymous letter about the district's vehicle perquisite, after a district vehicle was involved in an accident in Las Vegas.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 28, 2002

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 28, 2002

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Aragon, Christina; Arcadia Unified School District; Automobile accidents; Cars; District vehicles; Hennessy, Mimi

Item ID: 30396AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The fatal shooting of two Asian men last week in Arcadia was probably gang-related. These are unsolved murders.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 12, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 12, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Crime and Criminals; Lam, Wing Wong; Murder; Shootings; Tsui, Kenneth

Item ID: 30726AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Some members of Arcadia Christian Academy's boys basketball team acted as heroes after a 65 year-old woman lost control of her Mercedes and ran it through a group of children and adults in Eagle Rock, where the team attended a game. The boys ran to the scene and helped lift the car off two children and an adult. There were no fatalities.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 7, 2002

Pages: p. 1, 21

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 7, 2002

Pages: p. 1, 21

Subjects: Arcadia Christian Academy--boys basketball; Heroes

Item ID: 33625AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The City of Arcadia faces mid-year budget cuts as the state has its own budget problems. Arcadia will have to sustain a $2.9 million cut this year, a loss of funds that comes from vehicle license fees.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 16, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 16, 2003

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Budget

Item ID: 31019AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The dead body of 24-year-old Nancy Christina Sanchez, of Baldwin Park, was found in an alley behind Alice Street near Santa Anita Avenue. In an unrelated case, 60-year-old Gisela Fischer died at Arcadia Methodist Hospital after she was found floating in the hot tub at the Elite Westerner Motel at 161 Colorado Place.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 12, 2003

Pages: p. 20

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 12, 2003

Pages: p. 20

Subjects: Deaths; Fischer, Gisela; Sanchez, Nancy Christina

Item ID: 31724AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Foothills Middle School music teacher Sandra Ragusta resigned after 12 years, after receiving her lowest employee evaluation since 1990. She tried to withdraw her resignation but Arcadia Board of Education decided not to give Ragusta her job back.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 10, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 10, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Arcadia Board of Education; Ragusa, Sandra; Ragusta, Sandra (spelling is not certain, see Arcadia Weekly, October 17, 2002, p. 1)

Item ID: 30811AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

If a 1948 plan by the Rapid Transit Action Group to salvage a portion of the Pacific Electric Red Car system had become a reality, Arcadia and Monrovia would have been enjoying the benefits of light rail transit for the last 54 years. Arcadia Weekly writer Charles Cooper provides historical information and rider statistics of the old rail lines.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 1, 2002

Pages: p. 9

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: August 1, 2002

Pages: p. 9

Subjects: Light Rail; Rapid Transit Action Group; Trains; Transportation - history

Item ID: 30693AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia Board of Education promised parents and supporters of former teacher Sandra Ragusa a statement on why she was not allowed to withdraw her resignation.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 17, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: October 17, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Arcadia Board of Education; Ragusa, Sandra; Ragusta, Sandra (spelling is not certain, see Arcadia Weekly, October 10, 2002, p. 1)

Item ID: 30816AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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A 13-year-old female was critically injured after a motorist lost control of a vehicle and struck her in front of Dana Middle School. A surgical team decided to amputate the lower portion of her right leg 5 inches below knee.

Sixty-four year old Fuzhi Ji and his two-year-old grandson died after a hit and run accident at Santa Anita Avenue and Bonita Street left them with fatal injuries.

Rumor's bar owner Scott Hammond shot and killed a suspect trying to break into his bar located at 48 E. Huntington Drive. Separately, the merchant of AM Donuts on Las Tunas wounded one of two suspects trying to rob his store.

The Victoria's Secret store in the Westfield Santa Anita Shoppingtown has been hit by thieves in recent months. $3,000 in merchandise was stolen in the past month. Thieves accounted for roughly $150,000 in losses last year alone.

Christina Aragon, Assistant Superintendent of business services at Arcadia Unified School District, totaled her district car that she uses as a personal vehicle. It is part of her salary package. Arcadia School Board members and Superintendent Mimi Hennessy defended Aragon in media coverage.

The FBI is tracking vandals who caused an estimated $2.5 million in damage across San Gabriel Valley area sport utility vehicle dealerships. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for these acts of ecoterrorism.

The City Council offers $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and charging of the killer(s) of Arcadia resident Charlotte Cole. The City Council offers a $15,000 reward for information leading to the killer of two hit and run victims. The victims were an elderly man and his grandson.

Arcadia police officers Robin Letorneau and Matt Kraut were given Life Saving Medals and Citations for saving the life of a 54-year-old man in a smoke-filled room at the Santa Anita Inn.

Arcadia resident Olivia Wong, 19, is a college student on a paid internship at College Works Painting. She will learn to run all aspects of a small business.

Arcadia police pursued and arrested armed suspects after they robbed a Wells Fargo Bank at 211 East Foothill Boulevard. The suspects were Wilfredo Ramirez, Aaron Allen, Melonie Young, and Robert Burnham.

Four suspects involved in an Arcadia bank robbery had their original bail amounts increased from $35,000 to $280,000 and upwards of $300,000. The suspects were Wilfredo Ramirez, Aaron Allen, Melonie Young, and Robert Burnham.

Mimi Hennessy, Superintendent of Arcadia Unified School District, writes in response to anonymous letter about the district's vehicle perquisite, after a district vehicle was involved in an accident in Las Vegas.

The fatal shooting of two Asian men last week in Arcadia was probably gang-related. These are unsolved murders.

The City of Arcadia faces mid-year budget cuts as the state has its own budget problems. Arcadia will have to sustain a $2.9 million cut this year, a loss of funds that comes from vehicle license fees.

Foothills Middle School music teacher Sandra Ragusta resigned after 12 years, after receiving her lowest employee evaluation since 1990. She tried to withdraw her resignation but Arcadia Board of Education decided not to give Ragusta her job back.

The Arcadia Board of Education promised parents and supporters of former teacher Sandra Ragusa a statement on why she was not allowed to withdraw her resignation.