818 Roundup: Bob Hope Airport sees passengers rise; La Crescenta church rebuilding

Good morning, 818! Today is Thursday, August 6, 2015. Temperatures for today are forecasted to reach a high of 86 and a low of 67 with a slight chance thuderstorms and showers, according to the National Weather Service.

Here are your local headlines:

• The number of passengers traveling through Bob Hope Airport in June was up 2.8% compared to the same month last year, according to airfield officials.

• The revival of the Christian Life Church building in La Crescenta is nearing completion almost a decade after an accidental blaze burned it down.

• La Cañada City Council members questioned Tuesday the value of continuing the city’s membership in the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments in the wake of that group’s public support of a 710 Freeway tunnel, which the city opposes.

• Coroner’s officials have ruled the death of a 73-year-old man found dead in his La Crescenta home last month as a homicide.

• The Glendale Police Department, Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station and Burbank Police Department met with residents of the communities they at this year’s National Night Out event, part of a national effort and aims to foster a positive relationship between local law enforcement agencies and communities.

• A man suspected of robbing and assaulting a Glendale woman in her 50s early Wednesday morning was arrested after leading police on a vehicle pursuit into Los Angeles, police said.

• The Crescenta-Cañada Lions Club partnered with the Los Angeles County Department of Child and Family Services for the Kases for Kids project, which provides donated backpacks and suitcases, filled with school supplies and personal-care items to children entering the county’s foster care system.

• A crew of four people suspected of burglarizing and stealing dozens of cargo vans and work trucks in Burbank over the last two months was arrested Wednesday, authorities said.