NEWS
By Liana Aghajanian | May 21, 2012
This is the third in a four part series exploring the impacts of heroin use on the greater Glendale area. On a Friday morning at the New Way Foundation rehab facility in Burbank, 20 men slowly crowd into a room. The stark white walls are covered in motivational posters. The blue door swings back and they sit down. Their offenses are varied. For some it's alcohol, for others heroin. For a few, cocaine or meth. Their backgrounds are varied too: They're Armenian, Indian, Latino, biracial and white.
SPORTS
By Gabriel Rizk | May 16, 2012
For the first time since 2008, the Crescenta Valley High baseball team captured the Pacific League championship this season. The last time that happened was also the last time the Falcons (20-7) advanced past the first round of the playoffs. Whether or not history repeats itself this season will depend on how well the Falcons match up with Tustin, which visits Stengel Field at 4:15 p.m. today for a CIF Southern Section Division II first-round game. The first key, according to Falcons senior right fielder Troy Mulcahey, a veteran of the last three CV teams, is to approach the game with an appropriate level of focus and urgency.
SPORTS
By Grant Gordon | May 15, 2012
LA CRESCENTA - In Tuesday afternoon's CIF Southern Section Division III softball wild-card outing, Crescenta Valley High came out swinging and so too did Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. Problem for the host Falcons was, the Knights were sending line drives into the outfield, while the Falcons countered by swinging at bad balls out of the zone. It amounted to a four-run deficit for CV after an inning that ultimately set the tone throughout the Falcons' season-ending 9-4 loss to Notre Dame.
SPORTS
By Gabriel Rizk | May 11, 2012
ARCADIA — Having played the Apaches already this season, the Pasadena Poly boys' tennis team entered Friday's CIF Southern Section Division II second-round match armed with some firsthand experience against unbeaten Arcadia High. In the end it served less as a scouting report and more as a tool of prediction, as the Panthers fell by an identical 12-6 score the second time around on the third-seeded Apaches' home courts. "We were missing a couple players today, but the kids who played very well," said Poly Coach Howie Farer, who was without two of his starting doubles players due to family commitments.
SPORTS
By Gabriel Rizk | May 8, 2012
Faced with an intimidating No. 2 seed on the road in its playoff opener, the St. Francis High boys' volleyball team didn't get off to the best of starts Tuesday night. And even though the Golden Knights rebounded to give host Esperanza pause in the second game of their CIF Southern Section Division I opener, the Aztecs finished off the job with a 25-13, 25-19, 25-15 sweep. "I would say their reputation, first," Golden Knights Coach Mark Frazee said when asked what spooked his team.
NEWS
May 4, 2012
About 80 workers protested outside an AT&T dispatching facility in Glendale Thursday that was sparked, union leaders say, when a female technician refused to remove a union button she was wearing at work. AT&T and its union workers are in contract negotiations and one of the main sticking points is healthcare coverage, said T Santora, president of Communication Workers of America, Local 9003. In the last round of negotiations, workers agreed to pay 18% of their premiums, but the company now wants them to pay much more, Santora said.
NEWS
By Brittany Levine, brittany.levine@latimes.com | May 2, 2012
It came down to a battle among senior services, Armenian nonprofits and a family counseling center as the City Council divvied up a smaller pool of federal grants Tuesday. In the end, senior services won. Every year, the city gets funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help pay for community social services that address the underserved. For fiscal year 2012-13, funding was cut 35%, leaving the city with just $296,000 despite having received nearly two dozen requests totaling about $1 million.
SPORTS
By Gabriel Rizk | May 2, 2012
PASADENA — Both the St. Francis High and Pasadena Poly boys' volleyball team are headed to the same place — the CIF Southern Section playoffs. But Wednesday's nonleague tuneup match between the teams showed the Golden Knights' engine to be running pretty smoothly, while the Panthers may yet need some tinkering under the hood, as their struggles down the stretch of the campaign persisted. St. Francis seemed to catch Poly in a daze in the first game and although the Panthers recovered to make stands in the subsequent stanzas, the Golden Knights were still able to complete the sweep, 25-16, 25-18, 25-21, in the regular-season finale for both teams.
SPORTS
By Charles Rich | April 30, 2012
PASADENA - Throughout the regular season, Emile Ohanyan proved he could compete with many of the best players in the Pacific League. Now, the Hoover High boys' tennis player is looking to do the same in the league tournament. Ohanyan passed his first two tests Monday afternoon at Pasadena High, winning his first two sets to advance to the semifinals. Ohanyan, the fourth seed, started off with a 6-1, 6-1 win against 13th seeded Charbel El Khouri of Pasadena and then netted a shortened 5-1 second-round win against fifth-seeded Michael Whelan of Burroughs.
SPORTS
By Gabriel Rizk | April 27, 2012
LA CRESCENTA - In its bid to climb back into the Pacific League title chase, the Crescenta Valley High softball team took a giant step with a 6-3 victory over Burbank, one of two teams along with Burroughs that the Falcons trailed going into Friday's games. The most telling tally behind the final score was the error count, 4-2, in favor of host Crescenta Valley, which did surrender an unearned run in the top of the second, but overall fared much better in the field that the Bulldogs.