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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's bomb squad detonated three pipe bombs found inside a Pasadena apartment building Wednesday. The Pasadena Police Department discovered the explosives in the wake of a Tuesday night incident in which a parolee fled from a traffic stop, according to Lt. Phlunte Riddle. On Tuesday night Pasadena officers attempted to pull over a driver at the intersection of Lake Avenue and Walnut Street. The man, Clint Brian Macias, 30, continued driving and then abandoned the vehicle at El Molino Avenue and Cordova Street, where he fled on foot.

A Los Angeles man was killed Friday night in Pasadena when a car struck him on Colorado Boulevard, authorities said. The man was walking on Colorado Boulevard between Greenwood Avenue and Berkeley Avenue when he was hit by a car after attempting to cross the street from the north side of the street to the south side at about 9:40 p.m. The driver of the vehicle stopped and was not arrested, said Clawson. The incident is being investigated as a collision, he said. The man, who was in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Pasadena would conduct a full environmental review if the city decides to proceed with tentative plans to bring an NFL team to the Rose Bowl in the coming years, stadium officials said Tuesday. The report would cost $200,000 to $300,000 and would take an estimated nine months, meaning there is no chance of a team coming to town in 2012. The prospects of that were slight anyway, as developers of a proposed permanent stadium in downtown Los Angeles or the City of Industry have not convinced a team to relocate to Los Angeles.

WALNUT - On a Saturday afternoon in which advancing to the CIF Southern Section Masters Meet was the day's top goal, quite a few locals took home championships at the CIF Southern Section Track and Field Divisional Championships at Mt. San Antonio College. La Salle High's Daniel De La Torre was the area's lone dual champion, as the reigning All-Area Track and Field Athlete of the Year flexed his muscles in the Division IV 1,600- and 3,200-meter races. “I was feeling really healthy today and I just wanted to give...

Columnist Doug Moe of the Wisconsin State Journal writes: The most shocking recent news out of Pasadena for Wisconsinites is not that the Badgers lost their second straight Rose Bowl game. The most shocking news is that Pasadena is claiming to have invented the cheeseburger. I am not prepared to concede that someone in Pasadena made the first cheeseburger. Read more: Cheeseburger invented in Pasadena? I have a beef with that  

Vice President Joe Biden visited a Pasadena residence this morning, according to a White House official. The vice president visited a home in area of Los Robles Avenue and Washington Boulevard as part of a campaign stop, the official stated. The vice president spent a couple of hours at the Los Robles Avenue home of John Kennedy, who in the past has served on Pasadena city commissions and is the brother of Lena Kennedy, a prominent fundraiser for President Obama. "It was basically a fundraiser for the president's campaign," said Dan Sherman who attended the meeting.

Pasadena officials report the busiest city streets are nearly clear, two days after a powerful wind storm left limbs and debris on  every city street. All of the city's major thoroughfares are accessible and 90% of secondary treets have been cleared, officials reported Thursday night. Officials did not have a gauge of how many residential streets were usable. Eight traffic lights are still out, while 26 others impacted by the storm are operable. Water and power service were 99% restored, with city workers still trying to get power to 400 electric customers and water to 150 customers.

Newt Gingrich  will return to Pasadena Feb. 13 and lead a town hall-style meeting of the Pasadena-based TeaPAC at the Castle Green Hotel in old Pasadena. Gingrich adressed a crowd of 200 at the Castle Green on Sept. 6, months before he emerged from the pack of Republican Party candidates to become a top contender for the GOP presidential nomination. The event takes place Monday, Feb. 13, from 5 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $25, and VIP seats are $100. For more information, visit  www.TeaPAC.net  or call (626)

At least 10 shots were fired but no one was injured at an affordable housing complex in Pasadena on Monday afternoon, according to Pasadena police. At 1:30 p.m. police received calls of shots fired at the Community Arms apartments in the 100 block of East Orange Grove Avenue. One caller reported seeing a man running from the area and another caller reported a beige-colored Chevy Tahoe or similar car leaving southbound on Marengo Avenue. Police found at least 10 shell casings and believe two shooters may have been firing into the apartments from a carport on the northwest side of the complex.

Two man fled after a failed attempt to rob a pedestrian in east Pasadena Sunday night, according to Pasadena police. A male Rosemead resident, 25, was walking south on San Gabriel Avenue near Morningside Street at 11:40 p.m. when two men approached him. One tried to grab the man's phone, but the pedestrian pushed the man to the ground, and he dropped the phone, Both suspects ran and a subsequent police search for the men was unsuccessful. One man is described as Hispanic, between 20 and 30 years old, and about five foot three inches tall.

ORANGE - ORANGE - All the South Pasadena High boys' volleyball team had known when it came to CIF championship matches was sweeps. That continued for the Tigers in the CIF Southern Section Division III finals Saturday. For the first time, they were able to celebrate afterward, though. South Pasadena won its first-ever CIF title in its third trip to the final round with a 27-25, 25-13, 26-24 victory over Camarillo at Santiago Canyon College on Saturday afternoon. “I wasn't intimidated by them at all,” said South Pasadena Coach Ben Diaz, who knew if a championship...

Longtime Pasadena City College Board of Trustees member Geoffrey Baum will not seek re-election in November, he announced Thursday night in a letter to colleagues and supporters. Baum is wrapping up his third four-year term for a board seat representing La Cañada Flintridge, West Pasadena and West Altadena. He also serves as vice president of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. Baum and his colleagues on the board came under fire from students and faculty alike last year over a shrinking of...

PASADENA - The Pasadena Poly baseball team is used to opening the CIF Southern Section playoffs at home. “We have been at home to open the playoffs for the last 20 years,” Panthers veteran Coach Wayne Ellis said. “We're used to it.” The Panthers were able to do almost everything right in their Division VI first-round game Friday against Bloomington Christian. Along with quality pitching, good hitting and sure fielding, Pasadena Poly was also able to take...

Ferraris will rule Old Town Pasadena on Sunday, and they will require a bridge closure. The Colorado Boulevard overpass between St. John and Pasadena avenues from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday as part of the 2013 Concorso Ferrari in Old Pasadena, state transportation officials warned. Roughly 140 Ferraris of all makes, models and eras will be on display in Old Town. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is free to the public. Detours signs will be posts. The bridge closure is weather permitting.

PASADENA - Having stormed into the CIF Southern Section Division VI playoffs on the strength of a six-game winning streak, the Pasadena Poly softball team seemed to carry that momentum into the start of its first-round playoff game against visiting Twentynine Palms. However, a three-run first inning for the Panthers was soon nullified when the Wildcats tied the game with a three-run outburst of their own. But the Panthers had their biggest inning yet to come. A six-run fifth inning, bolstered by a grand slam from DeeDee Logan, put Poly back ahead for good and propelled it to a...

Pasadena's Polytechnic School has appointed a new leader, the school's board of trustees announced. John Bracker, who currently leads the Watkinson School in Connecticut, will take over as Poly's head of school in July 2014, according to an announcement released on Tuesday . Bracker will replace Debbie Reed, who announced her retirement earlier this year after helming the school since 2002. The private K-12 school serves more than 850 students at its 15-acre East California Boulevard campus.

Two men carjacked a pickup truck in Pasadena on Wednesday night, but had it only briefly before police recovered it, according to Pasadena police. The victim of the incident was unhurt. At about 9:05 p.m. a Van Nuys man had parked his 2009 Ford Ranger near a bus stop at Washington Boulevard and Raymond Avenue. He was posting a sign on the bus stop when two African-American men approached him, demanding his keys and cell phone. He gave them the possessions, and they drove away, according to police.

The Pasadena Pops' star-studded "Sierra Acura Summer Concert Series" opens June 1 at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia. At the podium: singer, pianist and renowned interpreter of the American Songbook, Michael Feinstein, appointed successor to the late Marvin Hamlisch, in his inaugural season as the Pops principal conductor. Interest is so high, said Pops CEO Paul Zdunek, that the orchestra will present five concerts this season rather than the usual four.

Despite optimistic projections of increased state funding for public education next year, Pasadena Unified school board members this week approved layoffs for 96 full- or part-time educators. Although many of the layoffs could still be rescinded after the budget process concludes in June, officials on Tuesday bemoaned the high likelihood of losing at least some teachers, librarians, counselors and nurses in order to help close an $8.8-million funding gap. Board members had previously ordered 48 layoffs for other workers, including instructional...