818 Roundup: Settlement reached in former employee’s lawsuit against Glendale Adventist; Man charged in break-in, sexual assault

Good morning, 818! Today is Wednesday, June 10, 2015. Temperatures for today are forecasted to reach a high of 84 and a low of 63, according to the National Weather Service.

Here are your local headlines:

• A lawsuit filed by a former tobacco outreach worker at Glendale Adventist Medical Center who was fired after he published an opinion column criticizing the City Council has been settled out of court, while a related case against Mayor Ara Najarian has been dropped.

• An 18-year-old Azusa man was charged on Monday with breaking into a Glendale home and sexually assaulting a 38-year-old woman at knifepoint, officials said.

• A 19-year-old La Crescenta man was arrested Friday after allegedly vandalizing 23 cars on one block in Glendale, police said.

• All lanes of the Golden State (5) Freeway at Alameda Avenue were stopped in both directions for about 30 minutes on Tuesday afternoon after a communication line fell and blocked the road, officials said.

• One passenger jet clipped the wing of a second airliner while pulling away from the terminal at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank on Saturday morning, officials said.

• A Mylar balloon caused an outage Tuesday morning that left 2,147 Glendale customers without power for about 40 minutes, officials said.