Glendale

Ronald Radke, the lead singer of the rock band Falling In Reverse, was arrested Monday morning at his home in Glendale on an outstanding warrant for alleged domestic assault. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office had issued the warrant after Radke's girlfriend told Glendale police that he had physically assaulted her at their home on May 1, Sgt. Tom Lorenz said. Radke, 28, was arrested without incident and was later released on a $30,000 bail bond, officials said.

The City Council gave the OK for staff to apply for a $250,000 grant through Los Angeles County to fund an elderly nutrition program from July 2012 to June 2016. The grant is available to agencies that provide meals to seniors who are at least 60 years old, but it requires a 15% match from the city. Glendale has successfully applied for the money since 1979. The city serves about 41,000 hot meals each year at the Adult Recreation Center, Sparr Heights Community Center and Pacific Park Community Center, and delivers about 12,000 meals to homebound seniors.

Firefighters are responding to a second alarm house fire in Glendale, which was reported earlier today on North Jackson Street. Crews are continuing to battle the blaze in the 1300 block of North Jackson Street. Units from Burbank Fire have been called in to assist. Information on possible injuries, or damage to the structure, was not immediately available. Heavy fire was reported in the attic, through which firefighters have cut holes to assist with fighting the blaze. [Update 1:50 p.m.: Crews appear to have gained control of the fire at the single-story house, which at one point had flames coming from its roof.

The central quad at Tobinworld - a Glendale school that serves students with severe behavioral and emotional problems - was transformed on Friday into a water park that would have rivaled an attraction at Raging Waters. During breaks from class, students beat back the heat by sliding down a two-story double water slide. Water Day has become an end-of-summer tradition at the school, officials said. Tobinworld was founded in 1977 by Judy Weber-Israel, the mother of a severely autistic child who was determined to give him the same educational opportunities as others his age. Weber-Israel continues to serve as executive director In June, the school graduated 23 students, its largest class ever.

Five motorists were arrested Saturday during an anti-drunk driving task force in Glendale, police said. Police stopped 138 vehicles during their specialized patrols and performed 12 field sobriety tests on drivers, according to Sgt. Michael Glassick. Two vehicles were impounded during the operation. Five motorists were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol as part of the police taskforce, he added. Another three people were arrested in connection with driving without a valid license, driving on a suspended or revoked license and an outstanding warrant, Glassick said.

I have the deepest sorrow for the loss of 20 children and six adults who were gunned down Friday in Newtown, Conn. The Glendale Civic Auditorium is a frequent venue for marketing and sale of firearms that many of us believe contributes to the cycle of deadly violence in our nation. After seeing the images of a small school where 20 young children lay dead, how can we ever sit idle and allow “business as usual” and profit from these gun shows? It is clear that easy access to handguns and semiautomatic rifles is one of the main contributing factors in the number and severity of these unthinkable acts.

The City Council on Tuesday extended its development agreement with DreamWorks Animation for five years. The original 15-year development agreement would have ended in the coming weeks. Phil Lanzafame, the city’s chief assistant director for community development, said the studio has developed roughly 460,000 square feet of space and still has rights under the original deal to develop another 35,000 square feet. Jeffrey Haber, an attorney for DreamWorks, said the company wants to preserve the right to develop further, though it has no specific plans to do so. Lanzafame told the City Council that if the studio ever sought to develop more than the remaining 35,000 square feet, it would require a new agreement and likely a full environmental review.

For South Pasadena attorney Ruben Duran, images of civil rights leader Cesar Chavez bring to mind his father. Much like Chavez, Duran's father worked in manual labor and taught him the value of hard work. Duran pushed through years of schooling to become a partner at Burke, Williams and Sorensen, a law firm where he counsels agencies statewide. PHOTOS: Glendale's Cesar Chavez celebration at Pacific Community Center “He worked that hard so I didn't have to,” Duran told an audience at Glendale's 12th annual Cesar Chavez celebration on Saturday at Pacific Community Center, where hundreds of residents gathered to commemorate Chavez's life.

I heartily agree with Steven Asimow (“Open carry is a danger to the carrier,” June 12) that the proposed ban on openly carrying firearms is far from stupid, and I would not be pleased to see anyone encouraged to do so. Like Steven, I would definitely not feel safe walking on our streets and seeing people carrying firearms, simply trusting that they were all law-abiding citizens whose weapons were truly unloaded. In Philip Crispi's letter (“Guns help to make people safer,” June 11)

Twenty months after Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature abolished community redevelopment agencies statewide, local officials have gone through all the stages of grief - from horror to anger to confusion. Now they have reached the point where all they can see is darkness at the end of the tunnel of their experience, uncertainty over whether the revised redevelopment law and its interpretation by state Finance Department officials will be the same in six months or six months after that as it appears to be today.