818 Roundup: Walmart Supercenter coming to Burbank; Deputies investigate home-invasion robbery
Work has begun to turn the vacant building formerly occupied by the Great Indoors at the Empire Center in Burbank into a Walmart Supercenter.
Good morning, 818! Today is Thursday, August 27, 2015. Temperatures for today are forecasted to reach a high of 99 and a low of 72, according to the National Weather Service.
Here are you local headlines:
The former Great Indoors store at the Empire Center in Burbank will be gutted and its outside freshly painted to make way for a 143,000-square foot Walmart Supercenter.
- Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a home-invasion robbery that occurred in the 1200 block of Flintridge Avenue Tuesday night, when three suspects held and bound a woman at gunpoint and ransacked the residence while her parents were out on a walk.
Police warned residents to be on-alert after a mountain lion took off with a pet poodle from the backyard of a hillside home in Burbank on Saturday.
The Glendale¿ Unified school board has authorized salary hikes for its employees serving in management positions and district teachers could be next on the list.
- A 45-year-old Valley Village man was arrested after allegedly hitting an Ulta Beauty employee with his car after stealing a pair of gloves from the business, Burbank police said.
Nationwide discount chain Dollar Tree will open its first Glendale location on Sept. 15 at the former site of a relocated Trader Joe’s at 130 Glendale Avenue.
Two women were arrested on suspicion of prostitution Tuesday evening during separate undercover operations held at a spa and a hotel in Glendale.
Crescenta Valley High School students were holding their first rehearsal on Wednesday as part of the school’s ComedySportz team, a comedy improv group, that will soon compete against students from schools such as La Cañada and Verdugo Hills high schools and Flintridge Preparatory School.
- La Cañada’s three elementary schools concluded the first week of the 2015-16 school year on Friday, welcoming new and returning students and their families with campuswide picnic events.