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11 Arcadia High students named National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalis Arcadia High School continues its 28-year streak of seeing a double-digit number of students represented in the renowned National Merit Scholarship Program. This year, 11 Arcadia High students are counted among less than 1% of high school seniors across the nation that have been named 2022 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists, who now have the opportunity to vie for one of nearly 7,500 scholarships that collectively total close to $30 million.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36070
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 7, 2021
Pages
p. 2
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 7, 2021
Pages
p. 2
Subjects
Academic achievements
Arcadia High School students
National Merit Scholarship Program
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A 12-inch steel-jaw trap was found buried in a condominium flower bed. Such traps are illegal in California. The trap was found next to a house where a smaller device crushed the toes of a cat last week.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4548
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 12, 1995
Pages
p. A-3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 12, 1995
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
4424AN
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Newspaper Index
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A 15-year old Arcadia boy was arrested on suspicion of calling in a false bomb threat that emptied Arcadia High School for nearly an hour on Thursday.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9171
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 1997
Pages
p. A3 photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 1997
Pages
p. A3 photo
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
9125AN
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Newspaper Index
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15-year-old junior Allen Cheng conducts research on swarm engineering at Jisan Research Institute.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28146
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 3, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 3, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Jisan Research Institute -- Pasadena, CA
Arcadia High School students
Cheng, Allen
Kazadi, Sanza
Item ID
28339AN
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Newspaper Index
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15-year-old Richard Ung was arrested at his parents' home in Arcadia, where sheriffs recovered nine guns, including an AK-47 assault rifle and an assault pistol. Ung is being investigated for alleged involvement in the stabbing death of Boo K. Lee.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30707
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 5, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Guns
Lee, Boo K.
Murders - stabbings
Ung, Richard
Weapons
Item ID
30895AN
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Newspaper Index
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17-year-old Arcadia High School student Courtney Chou Lee has been named the 91st Rose Queen. Six other young ladies are princesses including another AHS student, Lauren Valenzuela. The Rose Queen and her royal court will reign over the 120th Rose Parade and the 95th Rose Bowl. Article contains some quotes from Courtney Lee's parents, Andrew Lee and Ulanda Lee.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31261
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 22, 2008
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 22, 2008
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Gaul, Mary or Gaule, Mary (spelled both ways in article)
Jenkins, Jasmine
Lee, Andrew
Lee, Courtney
Lee, Ulanda
McDonald, Bridget
Novell, Molly
Parades
Pasadena Tournament of Roses-2009
Rose Court - Royal Court
Valenzuela, Lauren
Young, Quinn
Item ID
31456AN
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17-year-old Arcadia High School student Courtney Lee is pictured on the front page at the coronation ceremony. She has been named the 91st Rose Queen.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31277
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 31, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 31, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Lee, Courtney
Parades
Pasadena Tournament of Roses-2009
Rose Court - Royal Court
Item ID
31472AN
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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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23 Arcadia High School students named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. They represent less than 1% of high school seniors across the country.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35302
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 12
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
National Merit Scholarship
Item ID
35491AN
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23-year-old Arcadia man Joshua Martin Parra-Davis was booked by Arcadia Police on suspicion of possessing an explosive device and leaving it in a backpack near a Bank of America on Foothill Boulevard on Friday, January 14, 2011. Witnesses said Parra-Davis first went to Foothills Middle School and may have been trying to open classrooms when he was confronted and ran off. The suspect was then seen dropping a backpack in bushes near the Bank of America and then running through the parking lot, where officers detained him. Arcadia Police called the bomb squad. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Bob Squad successfully detonated the device. Parra-Davis could be arranged in Pasadena Court today.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32296
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Arrests
Bombs
Crime and Criminals
Parra-Davis, Joshua Martin
Item ID
32495AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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28 finalists selected for the 2024 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Royal Court. Winners will be named Monday, October 2, with crowning of the queen slated for October 27. It will be the 135th annual Rose Parade. The finalists from Arcadia are Niyat Haregot, Naomi Stillitano, Shivani Wadhwa, and Danielle Workman. (Photo).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36555
Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
p. 5
Pages
September 30, 2023
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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
p. 5
Pages
September 30, 2023
Subjects
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2024
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Royal Court-2024
Arcadia High School students
Haregot, Niyat
Stillitano, Naomi
Wadhwa, Shivani
Workman, Danielle
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The 2001 murder of grocer Adel Karas, a 48-year old Egyptian man from Arcadia, a few days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, was initially thought to have been a hate crime. He was shot at his store International Market at 1381 E. Last Tunas in San Gabriel. Now police suspect Adel Karas was the victim of extortion. The suspects are two Latinos in their mid-20s.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32176
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 12, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Karas, Adel
Murder
Item ID
32375AN
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Newspaper Index
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2019 Rose Parade. Tournament of Roses names 44 court finalists. Four are from Arcadia High School. They are Faith van Haaster, Pourobee Saha, Linzi Qi, Helena Simpson, and Margaret Chang.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35272
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 29, 2018
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 29, 2018
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2019
Arcadia High School students
Chang, Margaret
Qi, Linzi
Saha, Pourobee
Simpson, Helena
Van Haaster, Faith
Item ID
35461AN
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2023 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade's Rose Court profiled with their hobbies. Sahanna Rajinikanthan, one of the Royal Court, is from Arcadia and enjoys baking. She made it to the state championship for the VEX Robotics Competition and enjoys volunteering as a singing coach in the language of Araneri, passing on her Indian culture to her students.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36399
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2022
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2022
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2023
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-Royal Court
Arcadia High School students
Baligh, Salia
Ballard, Bella
Denoncourt, Zoe
Cortez-Peralta, Michelle
Crick, Adrian
Rajinikanthan, Sahanna
Rose queens
Wittenberg, Uma
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2023 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Royal Court eager to uphold traditions. The 2023 Royal Court has been selected. They are Salia Baligh, Sahanna Rajinikanthan, Bella Ballard, Zoe Denoncourt, Michelle Cortez-Peralta, Uma Wittenberg, and Adrian Crick. Sahanna Rajinikanthan is from Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36334
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2022
Pages
p. A1, A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 4, 2022
Pages
p. A1, A8
Subjects
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2023
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-Royal Court
Arcadia High School students
Baligh, Salia
Ballard, Bella
Denoncourt, Zoe
Cortez-Peralta, Michelle
Crick, Adrian
Rajinikanthan, Sahanna
Wittenberg, Uma
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The 2024 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Royal Court has a Halloween moment. They spent the evening trick-or-treating at the Tournament House in Pasadena. Naomi Stillitano of Arcadia, who was crowned the Rose Queen last week, was dressed as Cupid from the movie "Valentine's Day."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36567
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2023
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2023
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-2024
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade-Royal Court
Arcadia High School students
Halloween
Stillitano, Naomi
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About 40 Arcadia High School students showed up outside City Hall at 3:15 to demonstrate against the city's 50 year old curfew, which subjects those under 18 to a misdemeanor citation if they loiter in public after 10 PM.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper9726
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 1997
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 23, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Item ID
9680AN
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Newspaper Index
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According to the Arcadia Police Department's monthly activity report for the month of December, which reports statistics for the entire year, daytime burglaries increased while night burglaries decreased. Also, there were no murders, 3 rapes, 2 attempted rapes, 36 assaults with a gun and 13 arrests for indecent exposure in 1987.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1379
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 21, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 21, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
1378AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Afternoon for young inventors at NASA's JPL at the Annual Invention Challenge. Shown in photo Arcadia High School student Taesong Hwang. Arcadia High School's team entered a water conveyor transport system in the contest.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34729
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 3, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A16
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 3, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A16
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Hwang, Taesong
Inventors
Item ID
34921AN
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Newspaper Index
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All-area soccer. Outstanding female athletes include Amanda Howard, an Arcadia High School junior.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35125
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 31, 2018
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 31, 2018
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Howard, Amanda
Item ID
35313AN
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Newspaper Index
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