818 Roundup: Car chase ends in fatal shooting in Burbank; Business leaders decry new diagonal crosswalk

Good morning, 818! Today is Friday, March 6, 2015. Temperatures for today are expected to reach a high of 85 degrees and a low of 59 degrees with mostly clear skies in the evening, according to the National Weather Service.

Here are your local headlines:

• Los Angeles police fatally shot a man who led them on a car chase early Thursday morning that ended when the suspect’s car and a police vehicle collided in a Burbank cul-de-sac, police said.

• Glendale City Manager Scott Ochoa on Thursday apologized for installing a diagonal crosswalk at a key intersection in the Montrose Shopping Park without first informing business leaders in the community.

• A 42-year-old Glendale man accused of soliciting an undercover police officer who was posing as a 13-year-old girl online was a substitute teacher at John Burroughs High School in Burbank for two months last year, officials said.

• About 150 bicyclists and hikers gathered at the Glendale Sports Complex Saturday morning as part of the second annual Bikes 4 Orphans Bike-A-Thon/Hike-A-Thon.

• Longtime La Cañada Flintridge residents and philanthropists Mindy and Gene Stein, through their Tikun Olam Foundation, have made a $1 million gift to establish the Stein Tikun Olam Infant-Family Mental Health Initiative at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

• Incarnation School’s academic decathlon team is poised to compete in a middle school decathlon competition on Saturday, an event at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena that saw more than 100 middle schools from across Los Angeles County compete last year.