Pasadena Star-News

The Junior Board of Our House Grief Support Center hosts its second annual fundraiser, The Night for Hope, 7-10 p. Full Story »

Stephen D. Rountree of Pasadena, president and CEO of the Music Center of L.A. County, was honored for his outstanding contributions Full Story »

Frank Long thought he was helping a nephew in need when he recently wired $2,800 to Toronto. Full Story »

Exactly two years have passed since 26-year-old Manuel "Manny" Moreno was gunned down in Covina. Full Story »

Foothill Unity Center, 415 W. Chestnut Ave., is seeking donations of turkeys for its largest Thanksgiving food distribution Full Story »

Jonna Doolittle Hoppes, granddaughter of Jimmy Doolittle, and a panel of World War II heroes including 89-year-old Vi Cowden, one of the first women to fly military aircraft, and Tuskegee Airman Claude Davis Full Story »

Because of the Veterans Day holiday, the city's Planning Commission will meet at 7:30 p.m. today, instead Full Story »

PASADENA - Police are investigating a weekend break-in and vandalism at Pasadena High School, where parts of a new $2 million playing field, a depiction of the PHS bulldog mascot and several buildings on campus were spray-painted blue. Full Story »

LOS ANGELES - A Caltech graduate student serving prison time for his participation in the firebombing of more than 100 vehicles in the San Gabriel Valley in 2003 will not be re-tried on arson charges, federal prosecutors said Monday. Full Story »

PASADENA - A Pasadena City College football coach placed on administrative leave last year for allegedly allowing a sex offender to play Full Story »

ALHAMBRA - Prosecutors wrapped up their case Monday in the re-trial of two men accused of killing Temple City teen DeAndre Netter Full Story »

An upcoming segment of "SoCal Connected" will focus on homeless families in Los Angeles County and will feature the Door of Hope shelter in Pasadena, officials from the organization said. Full Story »

The city chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union will hold a workshop at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Neighborhood Univeralist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., on how to reform California state government. Full Story »

The city will host a forum on the future of Northwest Pasadena for local business owners from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at the Pasadena Enterprise Center, at 1015 N. Lake Ave. Full Story »

Pasadena Water & Power will take community input about water sustainability, reliability, quality, emergency reserves and other issues during a community workshop at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Jackie Robinson Center, 1020 N. Fair Oaks Ave. Full Story »

City officials are holding a 50th anniversary slogan contest. Entries will be accepted through 6 p.m. Thursday at the Department of Parks & Recreation, 9701 Las Tunas Drive. Full Story »

PASADENA - Victoria Garcia is stressing out. With less than a month before the first set of college applications are due, the John Muir High School senior is struggling to get through the process. Full Story »

Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine has ranked Caltech as the best value among private universities in the United States, Caltech officials announced this week. Full Story »

The giant 18-foot fork in the road - stuck tines-down at the fork in the road at St. John and Pasadena avenues - may have generated more positive buzz than any official piece of public art in the city. Full Story »

ALHAMBRA - A new IMAX theater is banking that bigger is better for moviegoers in Alhambra. The Edwards Renaissance Stadium 14 in Alhambra opened a newly converted, 365-seat IMAX auditorium Oct. 30 - just in time for two of the format's biggest releases of the year, "A Christmas Carol 3D," which opened Friday, and James Cameron's "Avatar," due out Dec. 18. Full Story »

PASADENA - In the 1930s, there were 414 bungalow courts spread throughout the city, little houses clustered together in a style described by Sue Mossman, executive director of Pasadena Heritage, as a "Pasadena original."| With Gallery Full Story »

PASADENA - The property of local luxury car dealer Rusnak Auto Group in East Pasadena is mostly empty right now - there's a few low-lying buildings and a parking lot for some of its vehicle inventory. Full Story »

PASADENA - When he's not working at his day job as an earth scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Tom Nolan travels around the country judging students' science fair experiments. Full Story »

Cities, schools and veterans' groups will mark Veterans Day with several events locally this coming Wednesday. Full Story »

After George Ellery Hale retired as director of the Mount Wilson Observatory, he continued his study of the sun. Full Story »