According to West Covina Police Lt. David Shively, Arcadia High School student Matt Van Wickle was murdered during an argument he had with a man he met at Santa Anita Fashion Park.
Murder charges have been filed against Lonnie Dean Inman in connection with a local shooting at a bar located on Huntington Drive where Troy Kuykendall was shot and later pronounced dead after arrival at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. The article includes an obituary.
Police were still searching for suspects in the murder of Arcadia resident Katherine Skinner, age 19. Miss Skinner was a telecommunications major at Pasadena City College and was employed at Fashion Park.
Sam and Louise LaCorte have collected 24,671 signatures from people opposed to the parole of Richard Lanill Johnson, the man who killed their daughter. Johnson was convicted of shooting and killing Catherine LaCorte and Robert Morton in the foothills above Arcadia on February 11, 1976.
Brian Lawrence Snoke, a 24-year-old Arcadia man, was found guilty of three murders in an attempt to assume control of a lucrative cocaine sales network.
Police are looking into possible connections between 2 murders of elderly women that occurred January 7. Lillian Lehman, 91, was found dead at her Fashion Park Villas condominium in Arcadia, while Dora Peyton, 78, was beaten to death at her Duarte home.
Twenty-eight persons, most of them students at Arcadia High School, were arrested as suspected drug dealers. The arrests were the culmination of a secret investigation by undercover agents.
Arcadia Olympic Commission took steps at recent meeting to launch three civic projects and consider three others: An essay and poster contest for all Arcadia school students in April; Assist Arcadia High School students in promoting and selling tickets for annual 5K-10K run; Immediately establish an Olympic information center.