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‘Campaign to Unload’ urges California Regents to examine endowments Students and faculty at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) are understandably shocked by the hate-filled rampage of a UCSB student Friday night, in which six UCSB students were killed and 13 wounded just off campus. America mourns with the families and we embrace the responsibility to work together to stop this madness. "Not one more," as Richard Martinez, father of 20-year-old Christopher, one of the students who was killed, heartbreakingly challenged us. We are up to the challenge. Please see page 25
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Names of on-duty shooting-involved police officers are now public knowledge
A developer has been chosen by the Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center in late May to build homes on an undeveloped portion of the monastery grounds, officials for the center said on Monday. Beacon Media Inc. published on Saturday at sierramadreweekly.com that no developer had been selected after an interview on Friday with a spokesman for Please see page 14
McDonnell to face Tanaka in run off race for Sheriff BY SHEL SEGAL
the California Supreme Court ruled 6-1 to make the names of officers involved in a shooting public knowledge unless the disclosure would prove a credible safety
In the race to replace embattled Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell won the right to face former undersheriff and current Gardena Mayor Paul Tanaka in Tuesday’s Primary Election. McDonnell finished well in first in the election, garnering 49.15 percent of the vote, while Tanaka received 14.74 percent. Falling short were Bob Olmsted with 9.89 percent, James Hellmold with 7.91 percent, Patrick Gomez with 6.74 percent, Todd Rogers with 6.14 percent and Lou Vince with 5.43 percent. In the race for the vacant Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors First District seat, former U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
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BY JENNIFER SCHLUETER While some law enforcement agencies in California have generally been disclosing names of officers involved in on-
duty shootings, others have considered it a safety concern and therefore withheld them. Cmdr. Andrew Smith, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman, claimed that the department hasn’t “had any real
New Urban West hopes to build 50 PCC top cop placed on homes on administrative leave City College Monastery PolicePasadena Chief Don Yoder BY SHEL SEGAL
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has been placed on paid administrative leave, school officials confirmed Wednesday. “The College can confirm that Chief Yoder is on paid administrative leave. The College cannot comment on personnel matters. We must respect the laws that provide for confidentiality and privacy of such matters,” PCC spokeswoman Valerie Wardlaw said in an email to the Pasadena Independent. The PCC Board of Trustees approved Yoder’s hiring as campus police chief
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in January 2013. According to the PCC website, Yoder began working with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in 1985, and was promoted to captain in June 2011.
issues" revealing the names. The Long Beach Police Department chose to keep the names private because the lives of the officers and their families could possibly be endangered. However, on May 29,
Temple City high softball coach arrested for unlawful sex with a minor BY TERRY MILLER Temple City Tribune has confirmed that a ‘walkon’ JV Girls softball coach Ryan Frontino, 31, who worked at Temple City High was arrested May 22 at booked at Temple Station charged with unlawful sex with a minor. Lieutenant Steven D. Katz at LASD special Victims United confirmed that Frontino was arrested for the above mentioned crime and bail was initially set a $260,000. Please see page 8
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