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12 Year-old and 18 others arrested protesting Rose Bowl SeaWorld float at Rose Parade game sees Michigan’s first win in 26 years BY SHEL SEGAL
being separated from my mom and put in a cement box so people could pay to gawk at me, but that's what SeaWorld does when it snatches baby orcas from their moms," Rose says. "I hope families will realize the suffering in every single tiny tank at SeaWorld and stay a mile away." SeaWorld attendance
The Spartan defense manage to stop the Cardinal offense late in the fourth quarter as Michigan State University held on to beat Stanford University, 24-20, in the 100th playing of the Rose Bowl game on Wednesday. Michigan State’s victory in Pasadena was its first in the Arroyo Seco in 26 years. The win also came in front of a BCS-record 95,173 spectators, and more than 10 million television viewers. And with an approximately 60,000 Spartan fans in attendance, they could enjoy the 78-degree Pasadena heat, as opposed to it being just 16 degrees in East Lansing, Mich. The Spartans won in much the same way they had in their previous 12 victories: with suffocating defense. But it didn’t start out that way. Stanford marched down the field on its opening drive, blowing open holes and gashing Michigan State on
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BY TERRY MILLER I sometimes wonder about this profession we call journalism. Luckily some newspapers, like Beacon Media’s family of papers, hold true the edict that suppression of the facts equals censorship. If you were one of those watching the broadcasts live New Year’s morning you will have missed 19 people getting arrested for interfering with SeaWorld’s float. You’d also not be able to see the marriage of two men atop a float – even though same sex marriage is now legal here. How backward can we get: KTLA, one of the oldest stations in L.A. had the most syrupy script driven broadcast I’ve ever heard while omitting the truth and some harsh realities of life like the law which overturned PropoPlease see page 3
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On New Year’s morning, as SeaWorld's widely criticized float prepared to enter the Rose Parade, PETA supporters wearing "SeaWorld Hurts Orcas" T-shirts—led by 12-year-old Rose McCoy, who jumped the barricade at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to protest SeaWorld's float— ran onto the parade route and sat down in front of the float to make the point
that SeaWorld needs to stop imprisoning orcas and depriving them of all that is natural and important to them. She and 18 other protesters—including PETA Senior Vice President and lifelong Pasadena resident Lisa Lange and Gretchen Ryan, who is paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair—were dragged from the parade route and arrested. Nearly
New Year’s Eve burglars hit Nordstrom’s Thieves nab half a million in loot At approximately 4:11 A.M. on December 31, 2013, the Arcadia Police Department had officers respond to 400 S. Baldwin Ave, Nordstroms at the Westfield Santa Anita Mall. They were investigating the report of an audible burglary alarm. Officers discovered a smashed out west side lower level window leading into the store. Inside of the store, the jewelry cases were
smashed and an unknown amount of jewelry was stolen. In addition, there was an unknown amount of designer women’s purses stolen. No suspects were found inside of the store. Nordstrom video surveillance shows three suspects wearing dark clothing entering the store. The suspects exited an emergency exit that activated the alarm. Nordstrom officials estimate an approximate loss of
$100,000.00 to $200,000.00 in jewelry and $20,000.00 to $30,000.00 in purses. The investigation is being conducted by the Arcadia Police Department Detective Bureau. Anyone with information related to this case is asked to call the Arcadia Police Department at (626)574-5150. You can also submit crime tips and information via text, phone, or web to LA Regional Crime Stoppers, 800-222TIPS (8477).
100 other protesters carrying signs reading, "Boycott SeaWorld," followed the float for the entire route, ensuring that attendees got the "SeaWorld Hurts Orcas" message. Security was noticeably heightened for the SeaWorld float, and PETA's 13-foot blimp reading, "SeaWorld Tortures Orcas," was kept grounded. "I couldn't imagine
125th Rose Parade features first ever gay-marriage BY SHEL SEGAL The 2014 Rose Parade – with millions watching it in person and around the globe – kicked off at 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning with six F-16s from the Air Force’s Thunderbirds screaming up high in unison. Thousands lined the 5.5mile parade route – which starts at the Tournament of Roses House on Orange Grove Boulevard, makes a right down the main path of Colorado Boulevard before venturing left onto Sierra
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