818 Roundup: Drought is a reality, a Glendale-produced app breaks through, and neighbors support Conroy’s development

Good morning readers. Today is Monday, Feb. 3. Time to wipe the Super Bowl Mondays out of your eyes and check out what you missed while stuffing your face with your buddy’s awesome guac.

• A Glendale technology company launched a lifestyle application for Apple smartphones designed in the United States, but with much of its development and coding done by workers in Armenia.

  Glendale News-Press

• A little more than two years ago, residents flooded City Hall to protest a 24-hour Taco Bell proposed in their neighborhood along Burbank Boulevard, concerned that traffic congestion and trash would disrupt their quality of life. Many of those same residents returned to those same chambers Monday, but this time, for a different purpose: to support a cafe proposed in that same location, the vacant building where Conroy’s flower shop used to sit.

  Burbank Leader

• Set for a Rio Hondo League showdown with rival South Pasadena High with both teams jockeying for positioning atop the Rio Hondo League, La Cañada High looked nothing like a team that was unbeaten in its last six games. Instead, the Spartans were on the wrong end of one of the worst scores in recent memory for the program, falling to the host Tigers, 7-1, on Friday afternoon.

  La Cañada Valley Sun

• Officials Friday said that for the first time ever, the State Water Project that helps supply a majority of Californians may be unable to make any deliveries except to maintain public health and safety. They also said they were cutting releases from large reservoirs in the northern part of the state to preserve supplies in the face of what could be the worst drought in modern California history.

  Los Angeles Times

• The sign advertising his show still looms over the NBC parking lot, and for a few more days throngs of fans will crowd the studio gates in Burbank before tapings. But Jay Leno says he’s ready to leave — and this time, he says he really means it. After more than 40 years, “The Tonight Show” is leaving Southern California and heading back to New York, with the 63-year-old Leno, who first became host in 1992, handing off the show to Jimmy Fallon, just 39. Los Angeles Times

-- Dan Evans, dan.evans@latimes.com