Month: June 2012

Early on June 9, a squad of apparently unmarked law enforcement cars descended on the home owned by “Richard P. and Carol J. Van Pelt.”

Students with final exams scheduled this morning found themselves taking them outside of their classrooms, as power is cut off to half of the campus.

The two Journalism classes (writers and photographers) that make up the staff of the Courier had just wrapped their last meeting of the semester June 7 when news began breaking of a criminal investigation of two senior college officials.

As staffers were preparing for finals and summer vacation, their journalistic instincts took over.

Twenty minutes before President Mark Rocha began his hastily arranged news conference downstairs from the newsroom, the Courier published its first breaking news alert to its online readers.

A new report on the safety of the U Building questions the initial evaluations that the school had done in previous years, which became the basis of determining to abandon the building.

A special meeting of the Measure P Citizens Oversight committee has been called for Wednesday, the Courier learned late Monday afternoon. 

 

A jury has convicted a former PCC student with voluntary manslaughter in the second trial regarding the slaying of his girlfriend and hiding her body in a trash can full of kitty litter.

The college president on Monday announced the appointment of a replacement for Vice President of Administrative Services Rick van Pelt who was placed on leave Thursday after Los Angeles County District Attorney’s agents served a search warrant on his office and home.

The Associated Students of Pasadena City College announced late Sunday night that it is seeking an audit of all district acc

Students with final exams scheduled this morning found themselves taking them outside of their classrooms, as power is cut off to half of the campus. The electricity also is out beyond the campus, with traffic signals not functioning up and down Colorado Boulevard.