For $35 a week, developmentally disabled children can enjoy cooking, crafts, nature walks and free tennis lessons every afternoon from 2:30 PM to 6 PM Monday through Friday at the Arcadia County Park as part of the new Special Time After-School Recreation (STAR) program.
Deborah Maxson's career as a banker spans 18 years. She now works in the loan department of the Arcadia office of First Federal Bank. Maxson talks about her job.
Roy L. Coats, last year's Tournament of Roses president, died unexpectedly Saturday afternoon while working in the garden of his Arcadia home. He was 64.
Karen Garr is one of 400 pari-mutual clerks behind the betting windows at Arcadia's Santa Anita Park. The 44 year old Arcadia resident has been close to the race track since 1969, when she started as a "pony girl" in the back stretch of Santa Anita Park.
Police have arrested a 16 year old Arcadia High School student on suspicion of firing a gun Monday afternoon at two teenagers involved in an on-campus brawl several hours earlier.
A gunman driving an off-white pick-up truck attempted to kidnap two 12 year old Arcadia girls as they walked through the parking lot of Camino Grove Elementary School on Sunday afternoon.
Partick Anderson, 23, of Inglewood remained in custody on suspicion of murder charges for the shooting death of Henry Miller, 27, of Los Angeles, who was killed in the paddock at the Santa Anita Park race track, making this the first shooting at the track in its 55-year history.
Arcadia High School student Asha Jayasinghe is known for her astonishing speed. She won the National Jesse Owens Championship in the 400 meters and was inducted into the Jesse Owens Hall of Fame as a junior athlete. She is profiled.
Betty Lou Brau, who claimed that she became ill with the herpes- like cytomegalovirus after being inseminated with sperm in 1986 at the Santa Ana-based Fertility Center of California, won $450,000 in an out-of-court settlement. She did not become pregnant.