818 Now: ‘Superbug’ case reported at USC-Verdugo Hills Hospital; Ara Najarian files papers for county supervisor seat
Good morning, 818! Today is Friday, March 20, 2015. Temperatures for today are expected to reach a high of 77 degrees and a low of 56 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.
Here are your local headlines:
- Representatives from USC’s Keck School of Medicine confirmed Thursday that a single case of the “superbug” CRE(Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae) was identified in the intensive care unit of USC-Verdugo Hills Hospital earlier this week.
Glendale Councilman Ara Najarian has announced plans to run for Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich’s seat next year.
La Cañada Flintridge City Council members voted Monday to temporarily grant a property owner the right to privately develop a drawn but unbuilt road connecting his new home to Inverness Drive, while an appeal by neighbors wends its way through court.
State school officials voted last week to suspend the Academic Performance Index for the second year in a row, vowing to craft a more comprehensive way to measure student achievement in the Common Core era. But in La Cañada, where high API scores have been traditionally viewed as indicators of schools’ successes, officials are hopeful a newly modeled evaluation tool will be forthcoming.
A multimillion renovation for hosting bigger productions is paying off for the Alex Theatre, which saw a bigger audience turnout in the beginning of this year, compared to the same time a year ago.
- Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Crescenta Valley Station arrested a male juvenile in Altadena Thursday wanted in connection with a residential burglary that occurred around noon that day in the 4500 block of Belita Lane in La Cañada.