818 Roundup: Glendale jail nurse program deemed success; Prostitution sting
This June 2010 file photo shows one wing of the Glendale City Jail. Nurses contracted to conduct minor medical treatments and blood draws at the jail have saved local police officers 2,900 patrol hours that otherwise would have been spent escorting inmates to a hospital.
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Nurses contracted to conduct minor medical treatments and blood draws at the Glendale Police Department jail have saved local police officers 2,900 patrol hours that otherwise would have been spent escorting inmates to a hospital.
An undercover vice operation conducted this week yielded two prostitution arrests at Ivy Spa in Glendale, police said.
Drones of any kind will be prohibited from Memorial Park during city-sponsored events, according to an urgency ordinance passed Tuesday by the La Cañada Flintridge City Council in the wake of recent complaints regarding public safety and annoyance.
On Saturday, Walk Bike Burbank will be offering free bike safety checks and adjustments at the Burbank Farmers’ Market, one of four annual bike checks the nonprofit sponsors.
Scientists, engineers and authors convened at La Cañada’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Monday to ponder earthlings’ innate curiosity about the possibility of life on Mars on the 50-year anniversary of the Mariner 4 flyby over the Red Planet in July 1965
The National Charity League of Glendale will assume management of the Twelve Oaks Lodge senior living facility in La Crescenta as part of a settlement following a 2013 lawsuit filed against a company that closed down the facility, which had operated for more than 80 years.
Attempted murder and robbery charges were filed Thursday against a 30-year-old Canyon Country man accused of robbing and assaulting a Glendale woman at gunpoint, and then fleeing from police, officials said.
- Hundreds of new plants will soon line the sand-like decomposed granite that now borders the sidewalks of the Montrose Shopping Park. In response to a state mandate to conserve water, the city recently yanked out the grass from 18 plots along Honolulu Avenue.