By Mary O’KEEFE When the rains poured down this week around the Southland focus was on the hillsides affected by recent wildfires. Mudslides, like the ones that came after the Station Fire, follow many fires, and are the one-two punch from Mother Nature that everyone dreads – and fears. In addition to flooding from water […]
By Charly SHELTON This year’s calendar is populated with all kinds of astronomical events, from meteor showers to eclipses and more. But our local space center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada, has even more events to look out for in this year’s sky. “JPL is incredibly busy. We have more work than ever, fabulous […]
After months of intense work, these cadets conquered fears, challenges and struggles to graduate with Class XX. By Mary O’KEEFE On Sunday, 28 members of the Verdugo Fire Academy Class XX graduated after 12 months of classes. These included 900 hours of instruction in areas including firefighting survival, aerial ladder, live fire, ventilation, ladders and […]
Jan. 6 2500 block of Montrose Avenue in Montrose, the passenger side door was damaged and a global positioning system was stolen from a vehicle overnight. Jan. 4 2200 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada, when an employee returned to his business he found the front door window had been broken. Cash was discovered […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau continue its investigation into the murder of a young woman whose body was found on Angeles Crest Highway on Dec. 24. A hiker discovered the body of a 21-year-old woman identified by the LA County Coroner as Raylynn Josephine-Deanne Hernandez. “[Her body] was found just off […]
By Nicole MOORE On Thursday, Jan. 4, the Montrose Shopping Park Association held its first meeting of 2018. Andre Ordubegian, president of the MSPA, began the meeting with well wishes for the New Year. “I wish everyone a happy new year and a healthy year … [The Montrose Shopping Park Association] made progress last year […]
On Jan. 9 at approximately 11:10 p.m., an officer attempted to stop a silver Toyota Corolla for speeding at Pennsylvania Avenue and Altura Aveue in La Crescenta. The vehicle failed to stop and a pursuit was initiated. After pursuing the vehicle for approximately three miles, the driver lost control of the vehicle at Verdugo and […]
Mandatory evacuations are issued for the following areas to approximately 300 residences: Kagel Canyon, Lopez Canyon, and Little Tujunga Canyon. Los Angeles Fire Dept., California Highway Patrol, the Red Cross, and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. are assisting with evacuations due to the rain and damage from the recent fires in the #CreekFire and the […]
Update As of about 1:45 p.m., power was restored to the area affected by an outage earlier in the afternoon. No details have been released regarding the cause of the outage. ———————- A portion of the North Glendale area has been struck by a power outage as of about 1 o’clock this afternoon. The city […]
*UPDATE*LASD Death Investigation, Mile Marker 4.88, Big Tujunga Canyon Rd, Angeles National Forest Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. Homicide Bureau detectives are continuing their investigation into the death of a man. The incident occurred Friday, Jan. 5 at approximately 5:46 a.m., at Mile Marker 4.88 Big Tujunga Canyon Road, Angeles National Forest. Homicide detectives have […]