818 Roundup: Glendale Fire Chief accepts top post in Seattle; Ruling favors comfort-women statue

Glendale Fire Dept. chief Harold Scoggins at the annual City of Glendale Fire Department Awards Luncheon at the Glendale Hilton on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Scoggins accepted the top post at the Seattle Fire Department and will be stepping down next month, city officials said Wednesday.

Feb. 26, 2015 7 AM PT

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Glendale Fire Chief Harold Scoggins, a 25-year veteran of the department, has accepted the top post at the Seattle Fire Department and will be stepping down next month, officials announced Wednesday.
A controversial statue in Glendale’s Central Park will stay standing after another judge ruled in favor of the monument dedicated to women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
DreamWorks Animation has announced it sold its 13-acre campus in Glendale this week, only to lease it back from an undisclosed buyer as part of a financial restructuring effort.
A little more than halfway into fiscal year 2014-15, La Cañada has seen a net increase of $97,675 in general fund revenue and a $35,325 decrease in spending since the budget was passed last June, allowing officials to fund more projects citywide.
During a special meeting Tuesday, the Glendale City Council toured the Grayson Power Plant and received a presentation regarding a potential overhaul of the facility that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Two years after state lawmakers mandated that school districts reduce their number of suspensions and expulsions, Glendale Unified educators continue to explore ways to intervene when students express negative behaviors at school.
“Antiquated” playground equipment will soon be replaced at Earthwalk Park with new equipment that will be compliant with new Consumer Product Safety Commission guidelines and Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, according to a staff report.
In 2012, St. Francis High School’s Sebouh Bazikian made a promise to raise $5,000 to provide orphans in Kenya with bicycles that would get them to school safely and potentially change their lives forever.
A $50,000 reward is being offered to anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of one or both men who forced their way inside a Burbank home claiming to have a mail delivery, and made off with more than $500,000 in cash, police said Wednesday.
Montrose recently turned 102, but the annual Founders Day event to celebrate the more than century-old community was postponed due to rain on Sunday. Most festivities were called off, though revelers still managed to get a slice of birthday cake throughout the afternoon at Montrose Bakery & Cafe.