The Pasadena Police Department’s roundup of press releases leads with a note from Sept 5th describing two armed robberies and promising a link to video of at least one of the robberies.
For some reason the link isn’t there… but here’s the gist of the story: BTW … I’m going to get the video.

Pasadena, CA – On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at approximately 7:20 a.m., a male suspect entered the Walgreens store located in the 600 block of N. Lake Avenue, a few minutes after the store opened for business. The suspect walked in and confronted the manager, store employees and customers at gunpoint. The suspect ordered the manager to open the safe and removed cash estimated in excess of $2,000.00. The sole suspect then bound everyones hands with zip ties and fled the store.
On Saturday, August 25, 2007 at approximately 10:00 a.m. a male suspect, matching the same description, entered the Cash America business located in the 1300 block of North Lake Avenue, minutes after it opened. The armed suspect demanded the lone clerk to open the safe. The clerk complied and gave the suspect over $8,000.00 that was in the safe. The suspect then bound the clerks hands and fled the store. The suspect in both cases is described as: Male possibly African American, 26 to 40 years old, 6 to 61, medium build, ski mask, and gloves. In the first case the suspect was wearing a large green down ski type jacket. In both cases the suspect is armed with what appears to be a large black semi-automatic hand gun. The suspect is considered armed and dangerous.

Thanks to Publius at the FCB for the heads up on this one.
An excerpt:

A criminal and gastronomical excursion into the San Gabriel Valley, Blood & Dumplings rolls through Alhambra, Temple City, Monterey Park, Rosemead and El Monte, revealing dozens of weird, forgotten crimes and oddities from the valley’s past. Highlights include the lesbian couple whose bickering over spending cash resulted in one pumping the other full of downers until she died, the young bride who spent her wedding day buried under her parents’ house, the battling neo-Nazis of El Monte, Phil Spector’s spooky castle and the little bar where James Ellroy’s murdered mother Jean had her last drink. The tour includes a selection of dumplings from one of the San Gabriel Valley’s best Chinese restaurants.

An Alabama judge is accused of having prisoners called into chambers for a spanking.

School’s back in session and already there’s been a dorm room altercation in Tuscon, at the University of Arizona. One dead. One injured. Guess it was a real “Wild-cat” fight.
Here’s a link to victim’s myspace.com page.

A man who stabbed his wife was shot and killed by Pasadena police Sunday near Summit and Painter. Brian Day