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The City Council approved a plan for Rodeffer Investments to fill in an 85-acre quarry on the Arcadia-El Monte border with debris. El Monte has blocked this plan 3 times in the last 10 years and will continue to appeal the plan.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3405
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 1994
Pages
p. A-3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 17, 1994
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Rodeffer Landfill
Item ID
3294AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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This past week, Arcadia officials said Rodeffer Industries will resume its plans to convert an 85-acre quarry pit into a landfill. The plan is opposed by El Monte residents.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper17169
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 1999
Pages
p.- A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 1999
Pages
p.- A3
Subjects
Rodeffer Landfill
Item ID
17588AN
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Newspaper Index
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A bill approved by the state Assembly with a 41-21 vote would require the state Integrated Waste Management Board to take into account how the proposed Rodeffer landfill would affect El Monte residents before the board issues permits for the project. It now goes to the state Senate for a vote.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3654
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 2, 1994
Pages
p. H-1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 2, 1994
Pages
p. H-1
Subjects
Rodeffer Landfill
Item ID
3529AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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El Monte City Council members voted to take out newspaper advertisements and send hundreds of mailers to Arcadia residents in an effort to foster opposition to the controversial Rodeffer Quarry Landfill Project, a project that El Monte has opposed since the 1960's.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3023
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 1994
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 1994
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Rodeffer Landfill
Item ID
2946AN
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Newspaper Index
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Editorial complaint about noise levels caused by dump trucks at the Arcadia-El Monte border.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21154
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2001
Pages
p. A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2001
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Rodeffer Landfill
Item ID
21383AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council voted 4 to 1 against a suggestion to rename El Monte Avenue in memory of the legendary horse Seabiscuit.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28938
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Street Names
Seabiscuit
Arcadia City Council
Item ID
29127AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police chased three burglar suspects in their vehicle until it crashed at Baldwin Avenue and Valley Boulevard in El Monte.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28939
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 7, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 7, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Automobile accidents - car chases
Arcadia Police
Burglars
Item ID
29128AN
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Newspaper Index
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Magna Entertainment Corp, owner of Santa Anita Park, is the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against the State of California. The lawsuit alleges that the compacts between Governor Schwarzenegger and five Indian tribes is illegal.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29137
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Magna Entertainment Corp.
Santa Anita Park
Lawsuits
Gaming
Slots
Native American tribes
Item ID
29322AN
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Newspaper Index
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El Monte man gets 21 years for killing boss at newspaper's office. Zhong Qi Chen, 64, of El Monte, was sentenced. He pleaded guilty in March to the voluntary manslaughter of Yining Xie, of Arcadia, at The China Press in Alhambra at 2121 W. Mission Road, Alhambra, CA.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36475
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 2, 2023
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 2, 2023
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chen, Zhong Qi
Crime and Criminals
Shootings
Xie, Yining
Collection
Newspaper Index
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23 year old Arcadian Jimmy Palma was ambushed and stabbed to death October 13 in the exercise yard of San Quentin State Prison. A Superior Court judge sentenced him to die for killing two children and their mother in El Monte in 1995.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11522
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 7, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Palma, Jimmy
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
11720AN
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Newspaper Index
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Miguel Solorzano, 31, of El Monte and Constancio Lopez, Jr., 30, of El Monte, were accused of burglarizing an Arcadia home in the 5100 block of Marshburn Avenue during fumigation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33610
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2013
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2013
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Burglaries
Crime and Criminals
Lopez, Constancio, Jr.
Solorzano, Miguel
Item ID
33805AN
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Newspaper Index
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Los Angeles County - Here’s who’s running in local Assembly races on the November 3 ballot. California State Assembly District 49: Edwin Chau (D) vs. Burton Brink (R) The district:Parts of Alhambra, Arcadia, El Monte, Montebello, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel, San Marino, South El Monte, and Temple City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35772
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2020
Pages
p. A12
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2020
Pages
p. A12
Subjects
Brink, Burton
California State Assembly
Chau, Edwin
Elections
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Food company executives Feng Wu Lam, who owns South El Monte based Golden Food, Inc. and her husband Wei Wen Wu, the company's manager, face insurance fraud, wage theft charges. They are accused of underreporting their payroll to workers' compensation insurance carriers by about $4.5 million between 2015 and 2019. They are both Arcadia residents.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36163
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Insurance fraud
Lam, Feng Wu
Wage theft
Workers' compensation insurance
Wu, Wei Wen
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Monica Rodriguez, a 27 year old pregnant woman from El Monte, died at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. The family believes she died of complications from the H1N1 virus (swine flu). The family is considering legal action against Greater El Monte Community Hospital because she went there to be treated October 14 and 15, but was sent away with medicine and cough syrup, instead of admitting her.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31774
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 30, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A15
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 30, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A15
Subjects
Deaths
Rodriguez, Monica
Swine flu - H1N1 virus
Item ID
31971AN
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Newspaper Index
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Proposed logistics center in Arcadia could impact traffic and El Monte residents. A former gravel mine (quarry) may soon become a 1.6 million square foot logistics center and industrial park on an 81-acre site on the southeastern end of Arcadia. Property owner is John Edwards, Jr. El Monte City Manager Jesus Gomez is working with Arcadia and the developer to protect El Monte residents. With enough mitigation measures, if approved by Arcadia City Council, construction could begin after the reclamation is complete, as early as 2017.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34455
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 16, 2016
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 16, 2016
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Logistics Center
City of El Monte
Edwards, John, Jr.
Gomez, Jesus
Quarry
Redevelopment
Item ID
34647AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia, West Covina, El Monte and Pomona police departments are considering an agreement to share equestrian units.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11866
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 10, 1998
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 10, 1998
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Police
Item ID
12067AN
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Newspaper Index
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William Robert Fisher of Arcadia was found dead in an alley behind Chuck E Cheese in El Monte.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper21157
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2001
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 26, 2001
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Fisher, William Robert
Item ID
21386AN
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Newspaper Index
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A judge dismissed nine lawsuits brought by Trevor Law Group against automobile repair shops. Arcadia Ultimate is one of the auto shops that is involved.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25309
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Trevor Law Group
Arcadia Ultimate Automotive
Lawsuits
Fraud
Item ID
25507AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Two men, including 22 year old Arcadian Jimmy Palma, were convicted of five counts of first-degree murder for shooting three adults and two children last year in El Monte.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper8017
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 1996
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 5, 1996
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Palma, Jimmy
Item ID
7977AN
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Newspaper Index
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Residents of E Monte say they're frustrated over plans for an all-nude 18-and-over club opening in Arcadia in a few months. the club, called Golden Eyes, will be within 1,000 feet of an El Monte residential neighborhood.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper16875
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 12, 1999
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 12, 1999
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Business & Industry - Golden Eyes
Item ID
14304AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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