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Flintridge Prep's Jack Purvis tries to block a shot by Chadwick's Ivan Gabriel on Wednesday, October 7, 2009. (Roger Wilson/News-Press)
Flintridge Prep's Jack Purvis tries to block a shot by Chadwick's Ivan Gabriel on Wednesday, October 7, 2009. (Roger Wilson/News-Press)
Stop The Protocols supporters chained themselves together and placed tape on their mouths during hunger strike across the street from the Armenian Consulate on Glenoaks Blvd. at Central Ave. in Glendale on Wednesday, October 7, 2009. The group of about 32 protestors began their vigil Monday night and will be there until Friday night. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Crime stats from the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station revealed car phishing–criminals going car to car testing door handles to find which ones are unlocked–is up in the area.
“Car phishing is up,” said Dep. Eric Matejka of the CV Sheriff’s Station. “It’s going up around the city.”
In the month of August, there were nine thefts by way of car phishing. Dep. Matejka said the best way to prevent the crime is to leave all doors locked and store away any “high dollar items.”
“A lot of times,” Dep. Matejka said, “they’re checking door handles first and then looking around inside the car. Last month, a woman left her doors unlocked and had jewelry in the glove compartment. Other times, the criminals are seeing things in plain view in cars.”
Johnny Harrison, vice president at Lexus of Glendale on Brand Boulevard, has donated more than $4,700 to supply Glendale Unified School District with hand sanitizer.
“Not going to allow a child to die on our watch,” Harrison said. “Hand sanitizer is the least we can do.”
You might remember my story on this, but the district bought kegs worth of sanitizer to help prevent the spread of H1N1 influenza virus, which has already been detected at several Glendale Unified campuses.
“Supporting schools is the easy part,” Harrison said at Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting. “You’ve got the difficult task to make kids into adults.”
He also informed the Board of Education of a nationwide Lexus challenge that would reward the school that presents a program to Lexus on eco-friendly land and water use. Lexus will reward the school with $10,000, and Harrison said he’d match that if a Glendale campus wins.
There’s more information about the competition here.
“Nothing our principals like more than a challenge,” school board President Mary Boger said.
Police this week arrested a 27-year-old Van Nuys man later determined to be connected to a string of robberies in the city, authorities said.
Brian Trevino is being charged with four felony counts of robbery and held on $225,000 bail, Burbank Police Sgt. Robert Quesada said.
Officers at 2:15 p.m. Monday arrested Trevino while investigating a suspicious vehicle in the 3600 block of W. Victory Blvd, Quesada said.
There they met a man who matched the description from a previous street robbery. Detectives conducted follow-up investigations and connected Trevino to at least three previous robberies, including two at liquor stores and a gas station.
Announced Wednesday, Los Angeles Dodgers Mark Loretta and Juan Castro were both selected for the team’s 25-man postseason roster.
Loretta is a St. Francis graduate and Castro is a Glendale resident. Both are utility infielders for the club.
St. Francis High graduate and Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Mark Loretta.
The Dodgers, the National League West Division champions, open up their National League Division Series against the St. Louis Cardinals tonight at 6:37 p.m. at Dodger Stadium.
For the third year in a row, Glendale High alumnus Bob Faieta, a Tujunga resident, enters the final weekend of the Patron GT3 Challenge by Yokohama with a strong shot at winning. Faieta, the two-time defending champion, has his biggest lead of the season entering the final two rounds on Saturday and Sunday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey.
With 228 points, Faieta can finish no lower than second place, but still must hold off Martin Snow (206 points) to retain his title. With 40 points up for grabs in Rounds 13 and 14, it’s a wide open race between the two men, who have battled each other for the lead all season. But Faieta has a strong track record on his side, having won three out of the last four rounds at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in securing the 2007 and 2008 championships.
“We’re in good shape,” Faieta said in a press release. “If we’re 22 points ahead we could clinch it in the first race, which would be my ideal scenario and then run for the win in the last race in front of my home crowd. I’m excited!”
Round 13 will take place Saturday, Oct. 10 at 10:25 a.m.; the final round will be a 75-minute race Sunday, Octo. 11 at 10:50 a.m. The GT3 Challenge uses Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars with sealed motors and transmissions.
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PBS recently aired “Inventing LA: The Chandlers & their Times,” which chronicles the rise and fall of one of the most powerful families in Los Angeles history.
For four generations, the Chandlers wielded unique influence through their newspaper, the Los Angeles Times.
Click here to watch the story behind the L.A. Times.
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Steve Lopez is livid. Fed up with Manny Ramirez. Fed up with his lumbering, unapologetic ways and mediocre play. So irked is the Los Angeles Times columnist that he plans on giving away his Word Series tickets to the (anti) fan who writes the best 50-word (anti) pean to the Dodger’s left fielder.
In his words:
So here I am with World Series tickets in my hand and a wave of hysteria sweeping the city. I’m sorry for being the cockroach in the punch bowl, but I can’t bring myself to join the party. The only thing that could get me to the ballpark in the post-season would be if Manager Joe Torre were to staple Manny’s dreadlocks to the dugout wall and play Juan Pierre in his place. I’d rather lose with a scrappy singles hitter like Pierre than win with a loafing slugger like Ramirez.
Maybe I’ll be in a more forgiving mood next year and return to the ballpark — I just don’t know. But I’m giving my World Series tickets this year to the person who writes my favorite 50-word sermon to Ramirez.
So far, there have been a number of pretty good responses. Here’s a few samples:
The hearts of Mannywood have been broken
Because you took Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
With your hitting last summer few rivals could beat us
Thanks to a drug that helps make a fetus
Once caught you couldn’t look fans in the face
Now all you do is leave men on base
- AND -
Just Manny being Manny
Is what the fans do say
Critique is reserved only
For starlets in LAWin or lose, no matter
It is all about the scene
Even though he struck out
At least Casey played it clean
- AND EVEN -
L ucky you made it this far.
O thers would give anything to be in your shoes.
S o baseball is to high pressure? Challenging? Come Sub in my class!
E veryone makes mistakes but you’re making the same stupid mistakes cheater.
R eturn the Dodger uniform until you decide to play like a professional!
What do we need to do to get comments like that? Man. I’d love that.
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Christopher Stone of the Los Angeles County Public Works gave tips to residents about how to prepare for winter rainstorms at Tuesday night’s Station fire aftermath meeting. Officials said debris flows are likely during wet winters.
Here’s what to do:
Third-graders at Valley View Elementary School in La Crescenta on Wednesday learned about evacuation and safety techniques from the Kid’s Safety House.
Awards were handed out Tuesday night to volunteers from throughout La Cañada Flintridge schools by the PTA at La Cañada High School.
From the Burbank Leader
[DEVELOPING] A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Wednesday postponed the arraignment of a Burbank Unified teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student so that she can continue to work with authorities, her attorney said.
Amy Beck, a 33-year-old teacher at Jordan Middle School, will remain in jail and is [...]
A singer from the pop group Girlicious was arrested Tuesday night after police allegedly found more than a dozen individual packages of cocaine in her Gucci purse, officials said.
Natalie Mejia, 21, of Diamond Bar is being held today in Glendale City Jail in lieu of a $30,000 bond, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s [...]
The Glendale Police Department took a Glendale News-Press photographer on a helicopter ride for an aerial view of the the Station fire burn areas.
Burbank resident and Former Dodgers outfielder Willie Davis, 69, died this morning, police said.
Authorities continue to investigate and are waiting for the coroner’s report detailing cause of death, Burbank Police Sgt. Robert Quesada said.
Davis, who made his debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1960, was a speedy outfielder during his baseball career, with 20 [...]
From the Burbank Leader
A Burbank Unified School District teacher turned herself in Monday for having sex with a 14-year-old student from March to September last year, police said.
Amy Beck, 33, a sixth-grade teacher at Jordan Middle School, surrendered Monday afternoon to Burbank police with her lawyer, and was being held on $400,000 bail, Burbank Police [...]
President Obama declared the neighborhoods affected by the Station fire and subsequent debris flows a disaster area Monday, paving the way for federal assistance with cleanup efforts.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced a federal disaster declaration for neighborhoods in the Station fire burn area that have been affected by recent debris flows.
The declaration makes city, [...]
Glendale and Burbank unified school districts are on track to meet the first of several turning points in the teacher layoff process, one week after officials approved eliminating a combined 197 teaching positions.
California education code mandates that public schools notify employees of potential job loss by March 15. Two months later, districts must have informed [...]
BOB HOPE AIRPORT — After a year of falling passenger numbers, Bob Hope Airport in January saw a slight increase in traffic compared with the same period last year, officials reported Monday.
Nearly 360,000 passengers traveled through the airport in January, up 1.6% from 2009, according to a report to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority on Monday. [...]
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