A 54-year-old Ontario man admitted on Tuesday that he shot BB guns at a Pasadena Planned Parenthood nearly a dozen times and that he was carrying a loaded firearm during one of the attacks, according to the United States Department of Justice. Richard Royden Chamberlin, 54, will plead guilty to the BB gun shootings, which are in violation of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, as well as possessing a .22-caliber handgun and ammunition while being a felon. He was convicted in 2012 on a felony charge of attempting to transport narcotics in Arizona. Chamberlain, a former reside ..read more

California has a new billionaire thanks to a $2.04 billion Powerball ticket sold at a convenience store in Altadena. We just don't know who that billionaire is yet, and we may not for a while. Depending on where the ticket was purchased, Powerball winners have between 90 days and one year to claim their prize money. If you win any Powerball prize that isn't the jackpot in California, you have 180 days from the date of the drawing to claim your prize, according to the California Lottery. Powerball jackpot winners have one full year from the date of the drawing. Didn’t win the Powerball jackpot ..read more

Remember Joe Chahayed, the owner of the Altadena convenience store that sold the winning $2.04 billion Powerball ticket earlier this week? It turns out, his son-in-law is former NFL player Domata Peko Sr., TMZ reported. Peko, who played defensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals, congratulated “Baba Chahayed,” on Twitter after the Joe’s Service Center owner was handed a $1 million check on Tuesday for selling the winning ticket. "Alexa play A Mili by @LilTunechi ?? blessed," the tweet read. Peko played for the Bengals for 11 seasons after being selected in the fourth round in the 2006 NFL dra ..read more

California has a new billionaire. A Powerball ticket sold at a convenience store in Altadena, an unincorporated area east of Los Angeles, matched all six numbers in Monday night's record $2.04 billion jackpot, California Lottery officials announced Tuesday morning. The ticket was sold at Joe’s Service Center at 15 W. Woodbury Road. “Somebody is holding onto a very important piece of paper this morning worth $2.04 billion,” California Lotto spokeswoman Carolyn Becker said during a morning news conference outside the store ..read more

The California Highway Patrol is drawing scrutiny for its treatment of a DUI suspect at a CHP maintenance yard in Altadena after the 38-year-old died while in custody. Officers were trying to get a court-ordered blood sample from Edward Bronstein, 38, which he initially refused. Though he soon relents, the officers proceeded to hold Bronstein down and forcefully draw his blood, video provided by Luis Carrillo, the family's lawyer, shows. Carrillo said the altercation occurred on March 31, 2020, but a judge only recently allowed the video to be released. "The state of California did not want us ..read more

Los Angeles County firefighters responded to the Altadena area Sunday afternoon after a brush fire broke out in the hills above the city. The fire was first reported around 1:10 p.m. near the intersection of Lake Avenue and Loma Alta Drive. The blaze, dubbed the Cobb Fire due to its proximity to the Cobb Estate along a popular hiking trail on U.S. Forest Service Grounds, has burned around five acres, according to County Fire supervisor Ornelas. No structures were immediately threatened by the fire, Ornelas said. The Los Angeles County Fire Department and the Angeles National Forest Fire Depart ..read more

Cleanup efforts continued in Altadena on Monday, days after powerful Santa Ana winds toppled a massive tree over the weekend and sent a portion of it crashing into a home. Crews have been working since early Saturday morning, cutting down limbs to remove the approximately 100-foot-tall pine from a home on Braeburn Road. The giant tree, estimated to be about 85 to 100 years old, was on the property of Vance Weisbruch. It was uprooted by tenacious gusts that reached up to 80 mph Friday night and smashed through the two-story home of Weisbruch's neighbor, leaving a gaping hole in the house's roof ..read more

After a two-month investigation, a man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in a fatal shooting that happened along a freeway in Arcadia, authorities said. Sidney Terrance Johnson, 25, was taken into custody at his home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the California Highway Patrol reported in a news release. The shooting happened around 9:05 a.m. on Sept. 4 on the eastbound 210 Freeway, east of Baldwin Avenue. Officers responded to calls regarding "shots fired" and a traffic collision. When they got to the scene, officers found a car with multiple bullet holes on the driver's side and a woman i ..read more

An Altadena man has been charged with killing his mother and uncle while one of the victims was on a Zoom call last week, officials announced Monday. Robert Anderson Cotton, 32, faces two counts of murder with an allegation of using a knife as a deadly and dangerous weapon, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. On March 22, Cotton allegedly fatally stabbed his mother Carol Brown, 67, and his uncle Kenneth Preston, 69, in the house they all shared along the 3000 block of North Marengo Avenue. Brown was apparently on a Zoom call with a colleague when the attack started ..read more

A double homicide investigation is underway after two people were found fatally stabbed in Altadena Monday afternoon, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials said. The incident was reported about 2:45 p.m. along the 3000 block of North Marengo Avenue, officials said in a news release. First responders said they found two victims, both of whom were Black and in their 60s, and declared them dead at the scene. "When they arrived, they found an elderly male deceased in the driveway," said Lt. Barry Hall of the Sheriff's Department. "They checked inside of house and found an elderly femal ..read more