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Crime Survivors are superheroes at annual run/walk
The name is new but the cause remains the same. The Crime Survivors Annual Survive & Thrive 5K Run/Walk is…
Pasadena police officer retires after 35 years of living her purpose
Tracey Ibarra spent 35 years of her life in law enforcement, the past 31 with Pasadena PD, and brought…
She knew the look. And things looked very grim. At around 1 p.m. on Dec. 11, while sitting on a…
The veteran officer’s brown eyes widen. “We all have a story to tell,” John Ema says. Ema doesn’t want to…
Her world imploded in slow motion. It was an incremental collapse into homelessness. First, her sister died, leaving behind an…
Cameron Knauerhaze walks in to the dispatch center to offer coffee for those who will field 911 calls over the…
The first thing you need to know about that unforgettable day is this: It was hot. Humid, too. It was…
He thought of his own kids, and how happy he was seeing them as newborns. That’s what was going through…