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Patsy Chang Kote, a live-in housekeeper, was arrested Monday at the Arcadia home of Ruth LeBerthon on suspicion of elder abuse and grand theft after she admitted tricking the 92 year old woman in her care into cashing pension checks and then taking the money.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10852
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Kote, Patsy Chang
Item ID
11197AN
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Newspaper Index
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Police find woman’s body in Arcadia backyard in the 300 block of East Forest Avenue. A 76-year-old Arcadia woman was killed yesterday at her home and her vehicle was stolen. The coroner’s office has not yet identified the woman. Neighbors said she was a longtime resident with two daughters and a grandson. The motive behind the killing is unknown.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35417
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2019
Pages
p. A3, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2019
Pages
p. A3, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Murders
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35609AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Witness apprehends hit-and-run suspect Rebeca Gonzalez, a 54 year-old Arcadia resident. She struck two pedestrians with her vehicle.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34549
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 28, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 28, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 15
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Gonzalez, Rebeca
Item ID
34741AN
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Newspaper Index
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Spotlight on Beryl Burridge, an 89-year-old resident at the British Home in Sierra Madre. She is a volunteer at Arcadia Methodist Hospital Gift Shop.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32750
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 22, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 22, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Burridge, Beryl
Senior Citizens
Volunteers
Item ID
32947AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Obituary/death notice. Alice Ann Formanack, a 72-year-old grandmother, died after inhaling smoke from a fire in her home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper15965
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Formanack, Alice Ann
Item ID
16722AN
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Newspaper Index
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Virginia Kay, 92, Pasadena Star-News advice columnist for more than 50 years, died at her Arcadia home. Her real name was Arline Osman-Powers. She is profiled.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper147
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 16, 1993
Pages
p. H-3 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 16, 1993
Pages
p. H-3 photo
Subjects
Kay, Virginia see Osman-Powers, Arline
Osman-Powers, Arline
Item ID
147AN
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Nine year old Karen Spurney of Arcadia won in her age group in the 47th annual "Search for Talent Competition" sponsored by the National Exchange Club. She played a rendition of Bach on the piano.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4826
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 21, 1995
Pages
p. A1 photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 21, 1995
Pages
p. A1 photo
Subjects
Spurney, Karen
Item ID
4702AN
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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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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gustin, Jason Scott
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
35486AN
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Authorities identify dead woman found slain at her home in Arcadia as 76-year-old Chyong Jen Tsai. Detectives are still looking for whoever killed the Arcadia grandmother and stole a white Lexus RX300 from the home in the 300 block of East Forest Avenue. Three weeks before the killing, her home had been burglarized. Detectives are not ruling out this connection to the homicide.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35419
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. A13
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. A13
Subjects
Biddle, Richard
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Murders
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35611AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Friends and family of former Arcadia City Clerk Christine Van Maanen gathered at Live Oak Memorial Park to pay their last respects. Her exact date of birth is not known, but she is believed to have been 86-88 years old when she died.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6247
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 1996
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 7, 1996
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Van Maanen, Christine
Item ID
6072AN
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Arcadian Darlis Clark, who sued the LA Police Dept. for allegedly lying to a judge and falsifying information to obtain a search warrant to search her home in June, 1987, lost her federal civil rights lawsuit in a 6-0 verdict. The LAPD had hoped to link Clark in an investigation of ZZZBest carpet cleaning whiz kid Barry Minkow and organized crime.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1221
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 25, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 25, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Clark, Darlis
Item ID
1220AN
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When someone burglarized her Arcadia home and stole all her children's Christmas gifts, Margie Stitzinger thought she had seen the worst people had to offer. She was surprised when her co-workers at Picasso's Cafe pitched in to replace what was stolen.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper16200
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 24, 1998
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 24, 1998
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Stitzinger, Margie
Item ID
16946AN
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A 20-year old baby sitter from mainland China testified about the events she said led to her enslavement by Arcadia couple Dianyi Zhia and Hua Jiang. See also Pasadena Star News, July 23, 1997, p. A1.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10088
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 1997
Pages
P. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 22, 1997
Pages
P. A1
Subjects
Zhai, Dianyi
Jiang, Hua
Item ID
10042AN
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Man Yao was robbed when she returned to her home in the 800 block of Volante Drive about 7:15 P.M. Sunday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3298
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 28, 1997
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 28, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
10997AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger offers $20,000 reward in Arcadia investigation into heinous murder of Chyong Jen Tsai, a 76-year-old Arcadia woman, whose body was found on April 9, 2019 in her backyard in 300 block of East Forest Avenue. Her 2005 Lexus RX300 is believed to have been stolen from her home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35447
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 20, 2019
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
April 20, 2019
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Barger, Kathryn
Deaths
Murders
Rewards
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35639AN
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Arcadia firefighters reunite with girl they saved in 2008. Ten years later they give Ashley Barrancos a birthday party at Arcadia Fire Station 105. As a two year old, she had cardiac arrest, now she is twelve years old.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35282
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 20, 2018
Pages
p. 13
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 20, 2018
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Department
Barrancos, Ashley
Herrick, Joe (Captain)
Pryor, Drew (Engineer)
Tuggle, Charlie (Captain)
Twitchell, John (Captain)
Valentine, Kevin (Battalion Chief)
Item ID
35471AN
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Local Arcadia ice skater Mirai Nagasu, a 16-year-old who is home-schooled, is part of the United States ice skating team going to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics. She has no aspirations for a medal, but is fulfilling a dream by just going to compete. Two years ago, when Nagasu was a freshman at Arcadia High School, she won the 2008 U.S. title in St. Paul, MN.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31894
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2010
Pages
p. B1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2010
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Athletes
Figure skating
Ice skaters
Ice skating
Nagasu, Mirai
Sports
Winter Olympic Games - 2010 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Item ID
32091AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Helen Montes, 13-year-old girl, climbing a tree at Arcadia County Park. Photo and caption only.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34122
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 16, 2015
Pages
p. A2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 16, 2015
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Arcadia County Park
Montes, Helen
Item ID
34316AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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17 year old Arcadia resident Valerie Brice is an avid tennis and soccer player. She is profiled.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper292
Newspaper
Star Tribune, Sports section
Date
November 24, 1992
Pages
p. 1 photo
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Newspaper
Star Tribune, Sports section
Date
November 24, 1992
Pages
p. 1 photo
Subjects
Brice, Valerie
Item ID
292AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Suzanne Barnes is a speech pathologist who works out of her Arcadia home and is only the 106th specialist in the world to receive the COM certificate for oral facial myology. She is profiled.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4475
Newspaper
Sierra Madre News
Date
January 26, 1995
Pages
p. 16 photo
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Newspaper
Sierra Madre News
Date
January 26, 1995
Pages
p. 16 photo
Subjects
Barnes, Suzanne
Item ID
4351AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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