PASADENA – A team from John Muir High School’s Engineering & Environmental Sciences Academy bested more experienced teams from schools in La Cañada, Arcadia, La Puente and Duarte to win the regional championship at the annual Solar Cup race held at Lake Skinner on May 13, the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) announced toda
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular
gasoline in Los Angeles County fell today for the 24th consecutive day,
decreasing a half-cent to $4.062.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – There were three traffic-related deaths on Los
Angeles County highways during this year’s Memorial Holiday weekend, the
California Highway Patrol said today.
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The Los Angeles Dodgers will conduct City of
Alhambra Night tonight, with two members of the famed 442nd Regimental
Combat Team among the city residents to be honored before the game
against the Florida Marlins at Dodger Stadium.
Mas Takahashi and Ken Akune were part of the most decorated unit in U.S.
military history for its size and length of service. The team was awarded a
Congressional Gold Medal in 2010 for its service in World War II.
More than 2,000 Alhambra residents are expected to attend the game.
The Dodgers also will conduct Korean Heritage Night tonight.
Korean Consul General Yeon-sung Shin will throw out a ceremonial first
pitch, 15-year-old singer-actress Megan Lee will sing the national anthem and
“God Bless America,’ the UCLA Hanoolim Korean Traditional Drumming Team will
perform and Korean community leaders will be honored on the field during a
pregame ceremony.
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...Read MorePASADENA (CNS) – NASA project managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a final set of commands to the Mars rover Spirit today, then said goodbye to the vehicle, which has been stuck in sand for about two years.
“Last night, just after midnight, the last recovery command was sent to Spirit,’ John Callas, the Mars Exploration Rover Project manager, wrote to his team. “It would be an understatement to say this was a significant moment. Since the last communication from Spirit on March 22, 2010, as she entered her fourth Martian winter, nothing has been heard from her.’
Despite being stuck, the rover performed beyond expectations and has been on the Red Planet since January 2004. Its twin, Opportunity, landed on the other side of the planet.
Spirit started out with some problems in its electronic memory, but detected evidence of water-altered rocks and carbonates — both building blocks of life — on what scientists call the Gusev site.
But the rover found evidence that Mars was once like Earth, with water and hot springs. Concentrated deposits of silica led the project’s principal investigator to conclude that steam vents or hot springs once existed at a site known as Home Plate. Such an environment could have supported microbial life.
After its first year on Mars, the rover lost the use of one of six wheels while scrambling over a hilly area, but continued to send data back to Earth for years. It logged 4.8 miles over the Martian surface — about a dozen times farther than it was expected to go.
Opportunity is still working. It has logged 12 miles, collected more than 130,000 images and is headed toward a crater called Endeavour.
...Read MoreThis just in, Los Tigres, the GU14 team from AYSO Region 14 won the YDP
(Youth Development Program) AYSO Spring Soccer League Wednesday night.
It has been a spring of success. AYSO Region 214 team Los Tigres continued its
spring success in 2011 this weekend with a tournament win in Glendale,
beating some very good teams. Their last soccer game was scheduled for
Wednesday night at the Muir High School football field. The team of
girls under 14 nearly squeaked out another tournament win in April at
the Rose Bowl, but fell short by one goal.
Jenny Callan, a prolific scorer for the team, has been the most
versatile of the young athletes, and was able to score the winning goal
on a hard angle with just two minutes left to play against talented
archrival Arcadia in a spring tournament game that looked to be headed
to overtime.
The Los Tigres team members are from the West San Gabriel Valley,
with most girls from South Pasadena, a few from San Marino, one from
Alhambra and one from Pasadena. The team had been tied with Glendale for
first place in the YDP season, having won two games and tying one,
heading into this week’s finale, but Glendale broke an
unsportsmanlike conduct rule by beating a Pasadena soccer team by a
margin of more than five goals. The penalty costs Glendale a point,
leaving the door wide open for Los Tigres to capture the championship.
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