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Amber Willard The following incidents were taken from police reports. 600 block of North Central Avenue: A 21-year-old Norco man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of driving under the influence. 300 block of North Chevy Chase Drive: A man told police someone stole his Toyota 4Runner Sunday. Western Avenue and Golden State (5) Freeway: A 33-year-old Tujunga man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of driving under the influence. 400 block of South Adams Street: A 39-year-old Glendale man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of grabbing his wife by her hair and throwing her onto a couch.

Rima Shah Wilson Middle School students were mesmerized by a television set Monday as they watched classmates take turns hitting it with a bat. Students whacked at a TV-shaped pinata Monday at an event kicking off national TV-Turnoff Week. TV-Turnoff Network, which organizes the week, is a nonprofit organization that encourages children and adults to watch less television. "This is our third year of doing something for TV-Turnoff Week," teacher Martha Wilson said.

Firefighters knock out weekend house fire NORTHWEST GLENDALE -- A weekend fire sparked by an electrical malfunction in a refrigerator caused $22,000 worth of damage to an apartment, authorities said. Glendale firefighters received a call about 6 p.m. Saturday in the 300 block of Western Avenue. A full assignment -- 24 firefighters on three engines, two trucks, an ambulance and battalion chief -- responded to the blaze. The wall behind the refrigerator and cabinets above and around the appliance were torched, said Capt.

Buck Wargo GLENDALE -- Glendale Police are continuing their search for a gunman who shot at a car carrying five Glendale teenagers on Friday, wounding the driver, authorities said. One of the teens, 17, is in good condition at the medical ward of the Los Angeles County Jail where he is being held on suspicion of robbery. A bullet grazed his head but the wound was stitched up and is not considered serious, said Glendale Police spokesman Sgt. Rick Young.

The following information was taken from police reports: 1300 block of East California Avenue: A 53-year-old Glendale man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of hitting his wife on the head with a shoe and threatening to set fire to their apartment. Jackson Street and California Avenue: A 22-year-old Glendale man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of grabbing his girlfriend's jacket and purse from her. 1300 block of Greenbriar Road: A Glendale woman reported Sunday $7,300 in jewelry was stolen from her house.

The following incidents were taken from police reports. 2000 block of Montrose Avenue: A 22-year-old La Crescenta woman was arrested Thursday on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. 1200 block of Oak Circle Drive: A woman told police someone stole a bench from her porch on Thursday. 300 block of Alameda Avenue: A 22-year-old Glendale man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of possessing mushrooms for sale. 1800 block of Verdugo Loma Drive: A man told police someone used a baseball bat to break a window and took a briefcase from his car on Thursday.

GLENDALE — Authorities are mulling whether to press charges against an 18-year-old man arrested during the weekend on suspicion of pointing a high-power laser at a police helicopter and momentarily blinding its two pilots. Mher Urfalyan was arrested at 6:35 p.m. Saturday after he allegedly pointed the laser at the two helicopter pilots, one each from Burbank and Glendale police departments, who were on regular patrol, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. The pilots had difficultly seeing after being flashed with the green-colored laser, Lorenz said, but they never lost sight of the source — a white 2008 Nissan Altima, according to police reports.

A man who faced down violent crowds and antagonistic schoolmates amid the upheaval of desegregation in the American South encouraged students to be equally purposeful in their pursuit of an education during a visit to Hoover High School on Monday. “You are all executives in charge of your own learning,” Terrence Roberts, a member of the Little Rock Nine, said. “You have brains. You have the capacity to earn 'As.'” Roberts was one of nine black students who in September 1957 began attending Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., integrating a formerly all-white campus in a community where segregation was deeply entrenched.

Whether he's in the classroom or singing in a local nightclub, Mark Romano is known for unleashing his quick wit. The Glendale resident and political science professor at Glendale Community College said his own experience as a student taught him what not to do as a teacher. So he livens it up for his students. "It's 55 minutes of stand-up comedy with facts," he said of his teaching style. He must be doing something right, because he gets high marks from his students on www.ratemyprofessors.

BURBANK — Two North Hollywood men convicted Tuesday in Superior Court of the August 2005 murder of a 19-year-old Glendale man face possible life sentences. A jury found Christian Gomez, 23, guilty of one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder for shooting Jaser Zavaleta on Aug. 8, 2005, as he was walking down Palmer Avenue in southeast Glendale. Zavaleta’s two companions were also shot at but not hit. Gomez’s conviction means he will face 130 years to life in prison, said Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Martin Bean.