William Chan and Scott Chen are co-owners of the Arcadia Badminton Club, a new 17-court badminton club on Lower Azusa Road. It is the largest badminton club in the United States.
Arcadia Police Department is warning senior citizens to avoid giving out personal information and credit card information to scam artists pretending to represent official agencies over the telephone. The scammers use intimidation as a tactic.
Safeway, Inc., the parent company of The Vons Companies, Inc., announced layoffs which will include 28 workers at the Vons Pavilions headquarters in Arcadia.
Last winter's 4 1/2 month strike had a devastating impact on Safeway Inc., parent company of Vons/Pavilion headquartered in Arcadia. First quarter profits fell 73.5 % to $43.1 million from $162.6 million during the same quarter for the prior year.
Arcadia-based Myricom, Inc. which develops and sells high-speed networking components, is one of the nation's 500 fastest growing privately held companies, according to INC. magazine.
Hall of Fame jockey and Sierra Madre resident Gary Stevens is doing well after a fall that injured his lung and shoulders at the Arlington Million. Stevens, in his first acting role, starred as George "The Iceman" Woolf in the Universal film, Seabiscuit. Stevens has won the Santa Anita Derby.
Forty-nine year old Arcadia man Terchi Liao, aka Nelson Liao, was allegedly running a Ponzi scheme, conning people nationwide into investing in two firms he controlled, AOB Commerce Inc. and AOB Asia Fund I LLC. A federal judge has frozen Liao's assets.
Suspect Steven Phong was arrested in an alleged check scam where he passed a phony or stolen $800 business check to purchase a mall gift card at Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita.
Montecito Fine Arts College of Design, which had campuses in Monrovia, Arcadia, and Brea, has shut down, leaving 1200 students stranded and employees owed thousands in unpaid wages.
Edmund Wu of Arcadia, founder of AMAC Violin Center, donated two chinese-made violins and a viola to the University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The City is going to enforce ordinance on false burglar alarms with a $100 fine for the fourth and fifth false alarms in a 1-year period and $200 for each one after that.
Montecito Fine Arts College of Design has declared bankruptcy but intends to reopen. The college has campuses in Monrovia, Arcadia, and Brea. The school's founder is Ed Kuckelhorn and the Vice President is his wife, Trisha Zhang.
Arcadia dentist Shirley Chen, 50, volunteered to help evacuees of Hurricane Katrina in Houston with dental treatment. Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, but many have been displaced to Houston.
About 95% of the more than 2,700 security alarms the Arcadia Police Department responded to last year turned out to be false alarms. Arcadia police Chief Bob Sanderson is asking the City Council to implement a $100 fine for a third false alarm issued in a 365-day period. A $200 fine for the fourth false alarm and $300 for the fifth and all subsequent false alarms would be part of the new ordinance that City Council will consider next month.
Shares of Safeway Inc. fell 4.5 percent after the Pleasanton-based parent company of Arcadia-based Vons/Pavilions said it expects second-quarter earnings will be below Wall Street estimates.