Two schools in Pasadena, Texas, were on lockdown yesterday after shots were fired. Pasadena police investigated reports of shots fired in the neighborhood near Lomax Middle School and Pasadena Memorial High School. Both schools were put on lockdown as a precaution. The lockdown was later lifted, and all students were safe, according to the Pasadena [...]
A mother and her two sons were shot this weekend in a domestic dispute in La Porte, Texas. Police responded to reports of gunfire in La Porte just off Spencer Highway Sunday night around 9:12 p.m. When police arrived at the scene, they found a 50-year-old woman, a 26-year-old man and a 14-year-old with gunshot [...]
Pasadena police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a parking lot of a grocery store on Spencer Highway. Around 7:30 a.m. Monday morning, a passer-by saw the man's body in a car outside the Spencer Highway Kroger. The Pasadena Police Department says that the 34-year-old man was taken away [...]
Shoppers on Friday night had to evacuate a grocery store on Spencer Highway after a fire started in the Mi Tienda bakery area. Both the Pasadena and South Houston fire departments responded to the fire at around 10:00 p.m. on Friday evening. No one was seriously injured, and while flames were through the roof of [...]
Baker Katz based in Houston has acquired a 22,000-square-foot shopping center at Fairmont Parkway and Beltway in Pasadena, Texas. New signage, updated landscaping and more are on the way for the Pasadena shopping center. A development partner said that the shopping center's location near the Ship Channel in Pasadena makes it highly sought after. The [...]
A Pasadena mother has been arrested for letting her 11-year-old daughter drive her Dodge Durango. A Pasadena police officer pulled a car over for speeding and was surprised to find an 11-year-old girl driving her 10-year-old brother to her aunt's house. The young driver said her mother gave her permission to drive the vehicle. The [...]
The Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras is looking to sell its Pasadena facility. The sale price is reportedly less than $200 million. The purchase price was $1.2 billion, paid in two installments in 2006 and 2012. The high purchase price spurred an investigation by federal prosecutors under the suspicion that bribes were included as part [...]
A driver crashed into several vehicles parked at a Pasadena household around 3:30 a.m. April 26. The impact caused a chain-reaction that pushed one of the parked cars through the garage door and into the house where it injured a 4-year-old sleeping in an adjacent room. The driver attempted to flee the scene. Awakened by [...]
A payment hold stalled millions of dollars' worth of projects in Pasadena earlier this year when the city's economic development corporation's board member terms expired. New leadership aims to get the organization back on track. The EDC, known as Pasadena Second Century, has been a contentious issue for Pasadena City Council during an overall rocky year [...]
The Keystone XL Pipeline could bring more than 800,000 barrels of Canadian oil to the area's coastal refineries. If and when the the pipeline is completed, those barrels coming from the northern oil sands would run into competition for refinery access with oil from Latin American countries. Mexico relies on coastal U.S. refineries since its [...]