Third-graders at Valley View Elementary School in La Crescenta on Wednesday learned about evacuation and safety techniques from the Kid’s Safety House.
Valley View Elementary students exit through a window of a smoke-filled room after learning proper evacuation techniques from Kid's Safety House on Wednesday, March 10. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Awards were handed out Tuesday night to volunteers from throughout La Cañada Flintridge schools by the PTA at La Cañada High School.
La Cañada Elementary Very Special Person award recipient Shirley Roberts chats with La Cañada Elementary principal Elissa Deangelo after the La Cañada PTA Founders Day on Tuesday, March 9. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
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.
A mountain of debris trucked in from the various debris basins in La Crescenta and La Cañada Flintridge rises at Deukmejian Wilderness Park in Glendale, to the north, on Tuesday, March 9. Dunsmore Canyon can be seen on the right side of the photo. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Clouds opened up from time to time Saturday in La Crescenta. In La Cañada Flintridge, residents inspected the Mullally Debris Basin on Manistee Drive in the Paradise Valley neighborhood after a short but strong downpour with lightning and small hail.
A man keeps an eye out for traffic as he crosses the street at the 3000 block of Foothill Boulevard while a downpour drenches the road in La Crescenta on Saturday, March 6, 2010. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Flitridge Prep High School played at home vs. Santa Paula High School at home Friday.
Flintridge Prep High School pitcher Karlsen Termini throws during game vs. Santa Paula High School at home at the Glendale Sports Complex on Friday, March 5, 2010. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Luther Burbank Middle School students planted tress Friday in honor of Luther Burbank’s birthday, the school’s namesake. A botanist and horticulturalist, Burbank discovered the Shasta daisy, elephant garlic and Russet potato among other plants. The city of Burbank is named after 19th-century dentist David Burbank.
Luther Burbank Middle School students planted trees in honor of the school namesake's birthday on Friday, March 5. (Raul Roa/Leader)
About a 20 minute walk up the Hall Beckley Canyon Recreation Area trail leads to a small and precipitous ridge trail where wild flowers are in full bloom in the hills of La Cañada Flintridge. There are two access points to the area overlooking the city below with views out past downtown L.A. UPDATE: The flowers in these photos are non-native African Daisy aka Namaqualand Daisy (Dimorphotheca sinuata – S. Africa).
Lupine grows among wild daisies on a small ridge trail off of Earl Canyon Mountainway in La Cañada Flintridge on Thursday, March 4. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Burbank High School teachers and students on National Day of Action protested cuts to education Thursday morning.
Burbank High School teachers and students stood outside the main entrance to the school to protest cuts to education, Thursday, March 4. (Raul Roa/Leader)
The Fine Arts Federation of Burbank “Fiesta of Art” Membership Show opens Friday at the Creative Arts Center Gallery in Burbank at 1100 W. Clark Ave. The juried mixed-media exhibit representing more than 60 artists will include paintings, sculptures, pottery, collages and photography.
Burbank Creative Arts Center Gallery Director Frances Santistevan, of Glendale, hangs Walter Hurlburt's oil painting "The Violinist" on Wednesday, March 3. The gallery is preparing for the Fine Arts Federation of Burbank's "Fiesta of Art" Membership Show which will open March 5. (Raul Roa/Leader)
Tenants for about a half-dozen apartment buildings who were evacuated after authorities discovered a possible pipe bomb in the intersection of Harvey Drive and Wilson Terrace were allowed to return at about 9 a.m. after it was determined to be a false alarm.
The pipe was capped at either end, but a Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department bomb squad discovered that it was empty using a remote-controlled robot.
The scare shut down multiple streets and offramps for the Glendale (2) and Ventura (134) freeways during the morning commute, and prompted authorities to evacuate several nearby apartment complexes as a precaution.
An L.A. County Sheriff's robotic arm picks up a pipe capped at the corner of E. Wilson Avenue and Harvey Drive in Glendale on Wednesday, March 3. (Raul Roa/News-Press)
Burbank Leader reporter Max Zimbert appeared on CNN’s Headline News Wednesday to talk about Amy Beck, a teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student.
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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 [...]
The La Cañada High School PTA has endorsed legislation introduced last month by State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada) designed to encourage teens to call for help in emergency situations.
The bill, AB1999, would protect a minor from criminal prosecution if he dials 9-1-1 and remains with a friend during a medical crisis. The bill is [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case involving employee background checks at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Supreme Court justices will review an injunction issued by the 9th Circuit Court in January 2008 that barred NASA/JPL from requiring “low-risk” employees —those who do not handle classified material — to submit to extensive [...]
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 [...]
From the Los Angeles Times
Actor Corey Haim, who starred in some popular movies in the 1980s and recently tried to relaunch his career with a reality TV show, has died.
The Los Angeles Police Department said Haim, 38, was pronounced dead after 3 a.m. at a Burbank hospital. He had been living in the San [...]
From the Los Angeles Times:
A woman reported missing Friday from her home in Rancho Santa Margarita was found unharmed Tuesday night at a hotel in Glendale, authorities said.
Kavishka Tokevich Lebrook, 33, was staying at the hotel and was in good condition, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.
“She is fine,” said Lt. Mike Jansen. He [...]
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.
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