Two men suspected of robbing the California State Bank on Huntington Drive on February 5th have been arrested. Roosevelt Davis of Duarte and Steven Wesley Berry of Ontario are being held in the Arcadia City Jail.
A suspected bank robber, a 46-year old man from Nevada, was killed and a 14-year old Temple City girl was injured in a shootout with police in a strip mall in the 600 block of W. Duarte Road.
A massive hillside wild fire of "suspicious" origin raged into its second day Tuesday, consuming about 750 acres and forcing at least 500 Arcadia residents from their homes.
The husband and wife suspected of enslaving and torturing a 20-year old woman from mainland China allegedly kept a second slave and may have imported as many as a half dozen people into the United States. Dianji Zhai and Hua Jiang of Arcadia have been arrested.
Patricia Ann Baltz, chosen in September as the Arcadia Unified School District's teacher of the year, advanced to become one of California's five teachers to garner the honor at the State level.
Michelle and Tyjana Boykins, 30 and 29, were awarded $200,000 after claiming to be unjustly strip searched by a female Monrovia police officer in September of 1990.
Police arrested eleven Asian-American high school students, nine of whom were Arcadia High School students, after a 2-month investigation of extortion and terrorist threats by suspected gang members against junior high school students.
A 22 year old Monterey Park man was shot and killed after leaving the Sportsrock Cafe about 1:30am and getting involved in an argument with 10-15 men in a nearby parking lot. He was shot with an illegal pen gun.
Five months after the owners of Arcadia Fastprint started giving away free fliers to help people find lost pets, they've been sued by an Altadena man who claims he has exclusive copyright to any "lost dog" or "lost cat" posters.
The State Supreme Court ended a three-year battle between El Monte and Arcadia, dismissing a lawsuit filed against Arcadia for approving a proposed landfill along El Monte's border. Rodeffer Industries, Inc. must still get approval from several state and regional agencies before proceeding.
R. James Considine, selected by the California State University Alumni Council from a field of 14 candidates from around the state, is the new alumni trustee for the governing board of the CSU system.
An off duty Arcadia police officer (name withheld) killed an Altadena man, Anthony Denham, 22, as the officer and four others were being robbed by the man and several armed accomplices.