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All city government offices and libraries will be closed on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. City commission and council meetings will take place as scheduled on Tuesday.

Robert Chacon La Canada Unified School District officials are looking for larger digs. Calling their offices at 5039 Palm Drive too small, not technologically sound and unprofessional, district officials have been considering moving their offices for the past two years. School board members on Tuesday will consider authorizing district officials to proceed with the sale of their offices. "For the last several years, we have been looking at moving to a new site, possibly the Foothills School site," said interim Chief Business Officer John Kramar.

New Life Christian Church, established in Glendale in 1921, recently moved its administrative offices to La Crescenta after selling its Glendale property in 2006. Administrative offices are at 3901 Foothill Blvd. No. 100 in La Crescenta. New Life, a Free Methodist church with a multicultural emphasis, continues to hold its Sunday worship services at the Crescenta-Cañada YMCA, at 1930 Foothill Blvd. in La Cañada. The church's administrative offices used to be housed on property on Lake Street in Glendale, where the congregation met until it outgrew the sanctuary in 1996.

More than 700 state workers will leave Glendale and Burbank over the next two years as the State Compensation Insurance Fund consolidates its operations. The department will relocate 512 jobs from the 25-story Unum building to offices in Fresno, Stockton and Santa Ana by September 2012, according to a statement issued by the agency. By September of 2011, 207 jobs will shift from Burbank to Fresno and Redding, according to the agency. The consolidations — which will also affect offices in the city of Commerce, San Diego, Oxnard and the Bay Area — should save nearly $200 million and "achieve our goal of greater efficiency and long-term operational stability," agency President and Chief Executive Tom Rowe said in a statement.

INDEX Almanac, A5 Around Town, A4-5 Business, A3 Classifieds, A9-10 Community Forum, A2 Sports, A7-8 WEATHER Mostly sunny skies, with highs in the mid- to upper 70s. SEE PAGES A4-5. HOLIDAY CLOSURES The following offices will be closed today in observance of Columbus Day. All post offices. Express Mail will be delivered to businesses that have notified the post office in advance that they will remain open.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles will begin implementing a new Saturday service at 158 of its offices, including Glendale, during the week of July 15 to 20. These offices will open one Saturday each month from 8 a.m. to noon and instead be closed on the Mondays preceding that Saturday. The offices will also be open an extra hour each that week between Tuesday and Friday. The open Saturday shift will fall on the third Saturday of the month unless it is adjusted for holiday schedules.

Here are some of the issues the school board will consider tonight: SURPLUS PROPERTY The district will consider selling its school district offices at 5039 Palm Drive, which it has deemed too small to carry out district business. District officials will move their offices to larger buildings at Foothills School, 4490 Cornishon Ave. State law requires that school districts appoint a committee to advise on the disposal of surplus property before that property is sold or leased.

On Friday, June 5 four members of Den 4, Pack 310 of Lincoln and Valley View elementary schools visited the offices of the Valley Sun newspapers. The boys, Anthony Wood , Vibhu Sharma , Tommy Lovato and Jacob Cook , are first grade students. All the boys are 7 years old. This is the first year of scouting for the boys and they recently completed the Tiger requirement and will soon become a Wolf. They visited the Valley Sun office to learn how newspapers are made.

Karen S. Kim GLENDALE -- Pallotta TeamWorks, a corporation responsible for producing charity events like Tanqueray's AIDSRides USA and the Avon Breast Cancer 3-day walk, will soon be headquartered at 2709 Media Center Drive, just outside Glendale's southern border. And Pallotta's Glendale employees are thrilled. "It's definitely a lot easier," said Barbara Belarmino, 25, who has lived in Glendale for about a year. "I don't even have to take any freeways."

Gretchen Hoffman It took 20 years and spurred the development of the city's Downtown Village Specific Plan, but the employees of Sport Chalet's corporate headquarters are finally housed under one roof. City officials and Sport Chalet executives held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday at the corporate offices at 839 Houseman St. Almost 100 employees from seven offices scattered through the city -- including some homes -- moved into their new digs Oct. 7. Sport Chalet executives say the consolidation will facilitate interaction between the various divisions of the company.

Officer Bryan Duncan was running late to a drunk-driving enforcement operation on March 17 when he witnessed a major traffic collision on the Foothill (210) Freeway that quickly escalated into an inferno. Duncan jumped off his motorcycle, ran toward the collision - which involved a Dodge Challenger and a Nissan Sentra - and began calling for emergency crews. After Duncan and a passerby pulled the driver from the fiery Nissan, he tried using a fire extinguisher to douse the flames.

A Ventura County Superior judge ruled this week that there is sufficient evidence for a Glendale police officer to stand trial for allegedly assaulting his live-in girlfriend. The officer, Daniel Schmit, appeared in court Monday for his preliminary hearing, where Judge Kathryne Ann Stoltz heard testimony and evidence about the Dec. 10 incident in Simi Valley, according to Ventura County Superior Court records. Schmit is charged with two counts of domestic violence, one of which is a felony, and a misdemeanor count of brandishing a firearm, according to court documents.

Two sisters who were fighting with each other on Saturday allegedly decided to take their rage out on a police officer by punching and kicking him, officials said. The sisters - Delmi Carranza, 21, and Patricia Carranza, 28 - were fighting and screaming at each other about 7:41 p.m. on the porch of a home in the 600 block of Arden Avenue, according to Glendale police. They were reportedly fighting because the father of Delmi Carranza's baby was allegedly having an affair with her sister.

A 32-year-old Glendale police jail inmate was arrested after allegedly attacking a custody officer on Tuesday, officials said. The 43-year-old officer suffered a small cut on his right elbow from his incident with the inmate, who was identified as Mohamed Mousa of Los Angeles, according to police. The officer was moving Mousa from the attorney visitation area to a holding cell when Mousa reportedly moved to stare at a female inmate in the next cell, police said. When the officer told Mousa - who was in custody on a warrant for domestic violence - to leave the female inmate alone, he suddenly starting yelling and flailing his arms, police said.

It was a weekend of firsts at the box office. The No. 1 spot went to the first cave-man family in "The Croods," and "Olympus Has Fallen" star  Gerard Butler had his first strong showing at the multiplex in years. The 3-D animated family film beat out the competition, grossing a solid $44.7 million, according to an estimate from distributor 20th Century Fox . "Olympus Has Fallen," a White House-set action thriller, exceeded industry expectations by about $10 million, debuting with a healthy $30.5 million.

The real estate market in Glendale saw continued steady growth last month as median home prices were driven up by a limited number of homes and lots of potential buyers, according to the latest real estate report. The median price of a single-family home rose 10.1% compared to February 2012, from $622,000 to $685,000, according to statistics compiled by Realtor Keith Sorem with Keller Williams Realty in Glendale. The median price of a condominium also increased, rising 14% for the second straight month.

A Los Angeles man and woman have filed a federal lawsuit against the Glendale Police Department, alleging a wrongful search last year during a traffic stop that led to their arrest. David Thompson Boyd, 51, and Patricia Marie Hale, 52, claimed in a U.S. District Court lawsuit filed March 5 that they were stopped on their way to dinner on Aug. 31, 2012 in Glendale for unknown reasons, searched without probable cause, arrested and denied bail. The pair are representing themselves. “It went from simply going to have dinner to all of a sudden being Bonnie and Clyde,” Boyd said, adding that he wants to know why the traffic stop escalated to an arrest.

It looks like the yellow brick road could lead Walt Disney Studios to box office gold. "Oz: The Great and Powerful," the studio's $200-million-plus production, is headed toward the biggest opening of 2013 by far. The Sam Raimi -directed picture starring James Franco as the iconic wizard could bring in at least $75 million on its opening weekend, according to those who have seen pre-release industry surveys. The film hits theaters March 8. The movie, a prequel to the 1939 classic, follows the wizard as he makes the journey from Kansas to Oz, where he becomes the ruler of a foreign land filled with good and evil witches.

I am a little surprised at the mention of "Armenian police officers" in your article, "Forum talks police panel" (Feb. 15). I had always thought that for one to be a member of the Glendale Police Department, one had to be an American citizen. Are these folks part of some sort of exchange program between the republic of Armenia and Glendale? Donald Cameron Glendale

A Glendale police officer has filed a lawsuit claiming he was the victim of repeated retaliation after he reported alleged health violations. Officer John Schmidt, who is currently employed with Police Department, alleged he and another officer were exposed to “blood-borne pathogens” while on duty, according to a Los Angeles County Superior Court lawsuit filed Jan. 22. He reported the incident on Sept. 28, 2011, to the city and the Police Department, alleging that he believed they failed to comply with California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health regulations.