818 Roundup: Local kids get some holiday shopping help from Burbank police

Good morning, 818. Today is Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. Temperatures for today are forecasted to reach a high of 64 and a low of 46, according to the National Weather Service.

Here are your local headlines:

• Donning Santa hats, 25 Burbank children, each paired with a Burbank police officer or cadet, scurried through Kmart on Wednesday evening, picking out presents for themselves and their loved ones.

• Among the 21 community colleges across Los Angeles County, Glendale Community College ranked at the top of the list in the percentage of students who transferred to four-year schools between 2008 and 2014.

• The threat of seasonal thefts and El Niño rainstorms may loom large this winter, but public safety agencies are alert and ready to respond, officials assured residents Monday in La Cañada’s first-ever “State of the Stations” address.

• A woman who played on Glendale High School’s water polo team claimed she was “pushed to the point of exhaustion” during practice drills in a lawsuit filed this week against the Glendale Unified School District, records show.

• After months of negotiations and a stalemate, the city of Burbank and the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority finally hammered out and agreed to a set of basic terms, which the parties expect to be the base for a future development agreement for construction of a proposed 14-gate replacement terminal at Bob Hope Airport.

• The Adams Mini Park Gas Station and a pair of Glendale homes — including one once belonging to a former boxing great — were added to the Glendale Register of Historic Resources on Tuesday, while the owner of the Depression-era Masonic Temple on Brand Boulevard received a property tax break for agreeing to preserve the property.

• The long road to reviving the annual Glendale Rose Parade float entry is almost over as volunteers are now being called upon to start decorating it this weekend. Volunteers can decorate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and again on Dec. 19.

• Burbank City Councilman David Gordon has been named to the National League of Cities 2016 Community and Economic Development Committee, giving him the opportunity to help influence federal policy on behalf of communities throughout the country.

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Ryan Fonseca, ryan.fonseca@latimes.com

Twitter: @RyFons