Pursuit of Bank Robbery Suspects out of Santa Clarita
UPDATE Friday 2p.m.: From the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office: –Three reputed Rollin’ 40s Crips gang members were charged today with robbing a Canyon Country bank on Wednesday then leading police on a high-speed chase as they threw cash out the car’s window, the District Attorney’s Office announced. Phillip Ely, 29, Lavelle Mosley, 22,and […]
Special Appearance by Project Runway All-Star Mondo Guerra
Assemblymember Anthony Portantino and City of Hope 6th Annual “HIV/AIDS Action Summit” California Assemblymember Anthony Portantino and City of Hope today brought together a wide range of experts and activists for the Sixth Annual HIV/AIDS Action Summit with special guest, Project Runway All-Star Mondo Guerra. More than 300 high school and college students as […]
Schiff Responds to the Attack in Libya
By Mary O’KEEFE “[On Tuesday] our U.S. Diplomatic Post in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. Heavily armed militants assaulted the compound and set fire to our buildings,” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today during a televised press conference. Four Americans were killed including Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, a U.S. Air Force veteran, and […]
CV Parents Reminded of Stranger Danger
Parents are being reminded to speak to their children about Stranger Danger after a man reportedly exposed himself to a 16-year-old girl in the 4100 block of Ramsdell Avenue. The incident occurred on Sept. 6 at 3:45 p.m. when a teenager was waiting on Ramsdell Avenue for her mother. The teen reported that a man […]
Remembering 9/11
By Mary O’KEEFE Firefighters at Glendale Fire Station 29 joined fellow firefighters and police officers throughout the country that took time early this morning to remember the attacks on American soil on Sept. 11, 2001. “On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial U.S. jetliners, deliberately crashing two of the planes into […]
Air Quality Officials Investigating Widespread Sulfur Odor
Field inspectors with the South Coast Air Quality Management District are in the field today investigating possible causes of widespread sulfur odors. Since around midnight last night, AQMD has received more than 100 calls reporting a strong, foul rotten egg/sulfur odor. Residents have complained from a very wide area including the Inland Empire and much […]
UPDATE: Rosie the Bear
UPDATE SUNDAY 7:39 p.m. That bear that was roaming La Crescenta and Montrose earlier this morning has been safely transported into the Angeles National Forest. “It was a female bear about 200 pounds,” said John Camphouse, Captain of Montrose Search and Rescue Camphouse and another MSR member traveled with California Fish and Game into the […]
Vehicle Over the Side
UPDATE FRIDAY 10:16p.m.: The vehicle’s La Crescenta owner has contacted friends to let them know he is safe with minor injuries.He related to a friend that he was in the vehicle when it went over the side of Angeles Crest Highway and climbed up the mountain to the main road. There he was able to […]
Future Construction Possible for Local Schools
By Mary O’KEEFE Two-story buildings may soon replace bungalows at 11 Glendale Unified School District schools with help from a state grant program and Measure S. The grant will match close to half of what the district will pay for the removal of aging portable buildings, like bungalows, said Alan Reising, director of Facility and […]