The 818 Morning Report: Hacker sentenced, healthcare worries and a coaching change for LCHS
Good morning readers. Today is Tuesday, Dec. 10. It’s cold out there, so put on that sweater, warm up by the glow of your computer screen and check out these headlines:
A federal judge sentenced a Glendale man to five years in prison for tricking or extorting hundreds of women into giving him naked pictures of themselves. Glendale News-Press
Burbank student Maria Cardenas, 26, has been without health insurance for the last four years, and it worries her. See how she’s coping. Burbank Leader / Los Angeles Times
La Cañada High football Coach James Sims will not return for a third season with the Spartans. La Cañada Valley Sun
The U.S. Postal Service’s Operation Letters to Santa needs more volunteers to adopt letters sent by low-income children asking Santa for coats, food, clothes, shoes and other gifts. Los Angeles Times
Former Lakers and Clippers forward Lamar Odom pleaded no contest Monday through his attorney to one count of driving under the influence and was sentenced to three years of probation and three months of alcohol abuse treatment. Odom, 34, must pay $1,814 in fines in connection with his August arrest by the California Highway Patrol in the San Fernando Valley. Los Angeles Times
A JPL scientist claims that industrialization ended the last Ice Age. Pasadena Star-News
More than four decades later, victims of the 1971 Sylmar tunnel blast distaster get a memorial. Daily News
TODAY’S EVENTS
Musicians from the Glendale Community College Chamber Music Program will perform a free recital at the Glendale Central Library featuring voice, violin, cello, guitar, clarinet, and piano. A night of great music. Music starts at 7 p.m.
Be a part of the City of Burbank’s Hap Minor Baseball and Ponytail Softball Leagues. Individual sign ups are ongoing until the end of February. To sign up, Burbank residents, grades K through 9 should fill out an interest form. There is no sign up fee but if and when a child is placed on a team, the team is responsible for league fees, uniforms, etc. The Leagues will start in late February and run through June. Sign up at the Olive Recreation Center.
-- Dan Evans, dan.evans@latimes.com