> Welcome to Beijing, Calif.
>
> Attorney argues city violated First Amendment by detaining Rose Parade
> protester
>
> By Joe Piasecki 02/28/2008
> Immediately following his arrest and nearly 10-hour detention by
> Pasadena police on New Year's Day, actor and filmmaker Andrew Koenig
> told this newspaper his decision to step out in front of a
> controversial Rose Parade float was, if not the easiest way to express
> his views, the absolute right thing to do.
>
> "I broke a law, but I didn't commit a crime," said Koenig, regarding
> the few seconds he had spent holding up a political sign before being
> hustled away by police.
>
> On Monday, attorney and former Pasadena Mayor Bill Paparian will be
> making a similar argument in Pasadena Superior Court. He will try to ...

> 3/3/2008
>
> Esther Rodgers was crossing Baltimore Street in Hanover last week when
> she was hit. Charges have now been filed and an arrest warrant issued
> for the man who allegedly hit her and took off. But, that does little to
> comfort a son who is jus hoping his mother makes it out of this whole
> ordeal alive.
>
> There is now a name and a face to go along with the search for a hit and
> run driver in Hanover. Police say Alejandro Aleman, 34, is the man who
> slammed his car into Esther Rodgers, 69, and took off without saying a
> word. The crash happened on Baltimore Street last Monday. A few days
> later police found Aleman's maroon Mustang.
>
> CBS 21 went to his home in New Oxford. His neighbors say he's originally
> from Mexico. He was doing some temporary work in the area but, they
> haven't seen him lately.
>
> Michael Rodgers, Esther's son, says the entire family is staying by his ...