818 Roundup: Bob Hope Airport hammers out ridesharing issues and Glendale police seek package thieves

Good morning, 818. Today is Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Temperatures for today are forecasted to reach a high of 86 and a low of 51, according to the National Weather Service.

Here are your local headlines:

Crime and Public Safety

Officer knocked out during fight with suspect

A Burbank police officer was knocked unconscious during a fight Sunday night with an assault and vandalism suspect, police said. Granada Hills resident Michael Cho, 26, was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a peace officer, vandalism and resisting an officer, and is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail, according to authorities. Burbank Leader

Police seek package theives

Police are looking for a woman — and her getaway driver — who was caught on camera stealing a package from the front porch of a Glendale home last month, officials said. The passenger, described as a Hispanic woman in her early 20s with tattoos on her left arm and abdomen, hopped out of the car and grabbed the package before running back to the car and shoving it inside. Glendale News-Press

Murder suspect gets court date

A 44-year-old man suspected of killing his elderly uncle in La Crescenta last July using a mallet is slated to be arraigned on Wednesday, records show. David Bushman was charged with one count of murder in the death of 73-year-old Arthur Palmer, who coroner’s officials said was found with “multiple blunt force traumatic injuries” in the attached garage of his home last July. Glendale News-Press

Three arrested in credit card fraud operation

Police recovered $10,000 worth of fraudulent purchases and 50 counterfeit credit cards after a Florida woman used one of them to try to spend $2,079 at Victoria’s Secret in the Glendale Galleria, officials said. Glendale News-Press

Assault suspect appears in court

A 21-year-old man who was shot by Burbank police after he slammed a truck into a patrol car at the end of a pursuit pleaded not guilty Tuesday to assault charges, officials said. Arthur Papiyan was charged last month with two counts of assaulting a peace officer with a deadly weapon on Jan. 28, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Burbank Leader

DUI checkpoint yields five arrests

Glendale police stopped 75 drivers and conducted 15 field sobriety tests during a DUI saturation patrol Saturday night, officials said. From 6:30 p.m. Saturday to 2:30 a.m. Sunday, eight motorcycle officers looking for impaired drivers arrested five drivers on suspicion of driving under the influence, and two each for being unlicensed and having a suspended license, said Glendale Police spokeswoman Tahnee Lightfoot. Glendale News-Press

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Education

Concerns over student privacy

Local school officials say they have received concerns from parents over the potential disclosure of student information to attorneys as part of a 2012 lawsuit against the California Department of Education. At the request of State Supt. Tom Torlakson, local school districts, including Glendale and Burbank, are letting parents know how to object to the potential release of student data, which could include students’ names, addresses and special education programs in which they have been enrolled. Burbank Leader

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Business

All in agreement

Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority board members on Monday were ironing out a few last wrinkles in an agreement with Uber to strengthen regulations for drivers picking up or dropping off riders at the Burbank airfield, which officials hope will lead to greater compliance and increased revenues. At least two Uber competitors, Lyft and Wingz, had signed similar contracts as of last week. Burbank Leader

Parking predicament

While Bob Hope Airport officials are seeking to shore up declining parking revenue through stronger enforcement of rules that require car services such as Uber and Lyft to pay $3 per pick-up, some officials also discussed plans to promote low-cost parking options as an advantage of flying out of Burbank. Burbank Leader

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Civic News and Politics

Marriott gets greenlight to draw up plans

The Glendale City Council on Tuesday gave Marriott International the go-ahead to draw up plans for an artsy boutique hotel that could be built behind a pair of downtown restaurants. The idea is to construct a 117-room AC Hotel — the first in California — on the site of a 55-space parking lot at Maryland and California avenues. The project site is to the rear of Panera Bread and the Mediterranean eatery Carousel. Glendale News-Press

Settlement reached in gender discrimination suit

Burbank officials agreed to stop challenging a jury’s verdict in favor of a man who sued Burbank for gender discrimination after he was passed over for a job as a police dispatcher, according to a settlement agreement finalized last week. Michael Naylor — who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1984 to 2000 before he was injured and discharged — sued the city in 2014 after he applied, interviewed and tested for a communications operator position with the city, but was passed over for the job in favor of a woman whose previous work experience was “the lunch rush at In-N-Out,” according to his attorney Leonard Tavera. Burbank Leader

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In the Community

Disc golf tournament draws dozens

Hahamongna Watershed Park was a hotbed of athleticism last weekend, as 105 disc golf enthusiasts descended on the nation’s first course to compete in the Professional Disc Golf Assn.’s 38th Annual Wintertime Open, a two-day tournament open to all levels. La Cañada Valley Sun

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Ryan Fonseca, ryan.fonseca@latimes.com

Twitter: @RyFons