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A 15-year-old Glendale girl who went missing last week after bolting from her mother's idling car has been found safe. Meleny Guerrero was dropped off Tuesday night at the Glendale police station by her father, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. Her mother, Dominica, said Wednesday morning that she “hadn't got the full story” about her disappearance Family and neighbors of Meleny posted fliers since she disappeared Aug. 21, and were particularly concerned because she likely was not carrying cash or her cell phone.

A new apartment complex in downtown Glendale is betting that young city dwellers will pay a premium for units as small as 375 square feet in order to have access to a variety of amenities and live in the heart of the city. The 208-unit, seven-story Elevé Lofts and Skydeck at 200 E. Broadway is renting the small apartments -- which are about the size of a typical two-car garage -- for $1,500 a month. Huntington Beach-based AMF Development, owners of the Elevé, is targeting the “Gen Y” demographic, members of which are in their mid-20s.

A Glendale woman was arrested Wednesday after allegedly running out of Target barefoot while wearing stolen clothes, police said. Francis Serna, 47, entered the Target in the 100 block of Colorado Street and allegedly dressed herself in several items of clothing before running out of the store past security officers who tried to stop her, according to Glendale police. Serna also allegedly grabbed a white jacket before exiting the store. She reportedly told police she needed new clothes because she was “out on the streets.” Security officers followed Serna as she ran toward Central Avenue and Colorado Street, where police stopped her. Serna was taken into custody on suspicion of burglary.

Alecia Foster SOUTHEAST GLENDALE -- A 61-year-old Glendale man was in critical condition Tuesday evening after being hit by a car. The incident occurred about 6 p.m. on the 1300 block of East Colorado Street. The man, whose name was not immediately released by police, was crossing the street when he was hit by a newer model, beige Toyota Camry, Glendale Police Sgt. Russ Pierce said. The driver of the Camry left the scene and was last seen heading westbound on Colorado Street,Pierce said.

The following information was taken from police reports: 126 S. Central Ave.: A 19-year-old Glendale man was arrested Tuesday in a Glendale Galleria parking garage on suspicion of possessing marijuana for sale. Colorado Street and Verdugo Road: A 27-year-old North Hollywood man and 26-year-old Carmel Valley woman were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possessing psilocybin. 1615 E. Colorado Street: A 25-year-old Glendale man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of possessing a knife, methamphetamine and a glass smoking pipe.

The following reports were taken from the Glendale Police Department: Colorado Street and Kenilworth Avenue: A 22-year-old Glendale man was arrested Friday on suspicion of misdemeanor drug possession. Glendale Galleria: A Glendale woman reported Friday that someone threatened her with harm when she asked them to leave a parking space for the disabled. 221 N Glendale Blvd.: A 43-year-old Calabasas man and a 39-year-old woman were arrested Thursday at Longs Drugs on suspicion of burglary.

As we wrote the City Council, there is no difference between the Town Center and the Glendale Galleria along Colorado Street and Central Avenue. Both facilities are completely enclosed; the only difference -- the Town Center is a box without a lid. The Town Center will have a 70-foot high wall along these two streets, creating a canyon on Central. We suggested they move the theater to the east side of the parking structure and have storefronts with several entrances along Colorado and Central and a street-level passageway into the Town Center.

A new apartment complex in downtown Glendale is betting that young city dwellers will pay a premium for units as small as 375 square feet in order to have access to a variety of amenities and live in the heart of the city. The 208-unit, seven-story Elevé Lofts and Skydeck at 200 E. Broadway is renting the small apartments -- which are about the size of a typical two-car garage -- for $1,500 a month. Huntington Beach-based AMF Development, owners of the Elevé, is targeting the “Gen Y” demographic, members of which are in their mid-20s.

A Glendale woman was arrested Wednesday after allegedly running out of Target barefoot while wearing stolen clothes, police said. Francis Serna, 47, entered the Target in the 100 block of Colorado Street and allegedly dressed herself in several items of clothing before running out of the store past security officers who tried to stop her, according to Glendale police. Serna also allegedly grabbed a white jacket before exiting the store. She reportedly told police she needed new clothes because she was “out on the streets.” Security officers followed Serna as she ran toward Central Avenue and Colorado Street, where police stopped her. Serna was taken into custody on suspicion of burglary.

City officials say parking permits may be the imperfect answer to a years-long fight waged between residents and car dealerships along South Brand Boulevard. On Monday, the Transportation and Parking Commission supported streamlining rules for a special permitting process in an effort to strike a compromise between the competing interests. “It's not a perfect plan. It's a start,” said Commissioner Aram Sahakian in front of about 25 people at the City Hall meeting. If the City Council eventually approves the ordinance as recommended by the commission, the city will create a “preferential parking district” bounded by Central Avenue to the west, Colorado Street to the north, Glendale Avenue to the east and San Fernando Road to the south.

A man threatening to jump from the Colorado Street Bridge Monday afternoon stopped his suicide attempt and was taken into custody by Pasadena police crisis negotiators at just after 5 p.m., said Pasadena police Lt. Pete Hettema. The man is being taken by paramedics to a local hospital, Hettema said. Pasadena police closed off traffic to the Colorado Street Bridge at about 4 p.m. to try to talk the man down. A police department crisis negotiating team spoke to the man, who appeared to be in his 40s, said Pasadena police Lt. Jeri Faulkner.

Glenn B. Ward spent his entire career as a professional photographer working out of a small studio in his adopted city of Glendale. Ward was born and raised in Fresno and earned a business degree before coming to work at Lockheed in the early 1940s. A mutual friend from Glendale Presbyterian Church introduced him to a young woman named Betty Hendricks. When he joined the Air Force in 1942 and was sent off to Europe, they began writing letters to one other. During his tour of duty, he flew C-47 transports in and out of battle, carrying wounded soldiers, supplies and officers in France and England.

A 15-year-old Glendale girl who went missing last week after bolting from her mother's idling car has been found safe. Meleny Guerrero was dropped off Tuesday night at the Glendale police station by her father, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. Her mother, Dominica, said Wednesday morning that she “hadn't got the full story” about her disappearance Family and neighbors of Meleny posted fliers since she disappeared Aug. 21, and were particularly concerned because she likely was not carrying cash or her cell phone.

Glendale police and U.S. Marshals arrested a 64-year-old man in a local hotel Thursday night on suspicion of beating his roommate to death in Northern California, officials said. Lawrence Hoffman of Burlingame in San Mateo County was taken into custody as he was leaving his room at the Golden Key Hotel in the 100 block of Colorado Street, Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. Burlingame Police Department officials notified their Glendale counterparts and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force that they had tracked Hoffman to the hotel using his cell phone records, Burlingame Capt.

Shots were reportedly fired near the 400 block of West Colorado Street in Glendale, hitting several cars. There were no immediate reports of anybody being hit, according to police. Detectives were headed to the scene at about 5 p.m. to investigate the incident.

GLENDALE — A lawsuit against a Glendale hotel that alleges three women suffered more than 100 bites from “blood-engorged bed bugs” crawling on infested beds soon will go trial, attorneys for the women said. The plaintiffs — Nicole Eatman, Vera Domini and Regina Martocci — are suing Rodeway Inn-Regalodge Motel, at 200 W. Colorado St. and its franchiser, Choice Hotels International Inc., after staying for three nights in a room that was allegedly infested with adult bed bugs and their larvae, according a complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

A young man by the name of M.G. Khodigian arrived in Glendale in 1917, on the last leg of an odyssey that began in his native Armenia in 1900. He graduated from an Armenian high school that year, at age 17, then left his home and family, traveling through Syria, Egypt and France to reach New York City in the fall. He spoke four languages at the time, none of them English, he told the Glendale Evening News in the Oct. 19, 1925, edition. Khodigian entered night school in Rhode Island, then traveled from state to state, reaching Los Angeles, where a family member was in the wholesale fruit business, in 1906.