Paul Clinton

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- With not enough commissioners in town, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority canceled its Monday meeting. The meeting was scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday at the Burbank Airport Skyroom. The meeting was called off because a majority of the commissioners were traveling. With fewer than five of the nine members in town, the authority would not have a quorum. The commissioners and some airport staff members will be attending the Airport Council International's annual convention in New York.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE -- A Staples The Office Superstore has opened its doors on North Glendale Avenue. The store, which opened Saturday, is the first in the city and the 145th in the state. In addition to a full range of office supplies, Staples also offers computer tech support, payroll processing, telecommunications services and Internet services. Staples Inc. owns 1,100 stores worldwide and is worth $9 billion. The company is based near Boston, and employs more than 48,000 people.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- Burbank has agreed to pay a Glendale woman $13,000 to settle her personal injury claim stemming from a car accident, the city attorney said. Shortly after a city transit van backed into her car in August 1998, Armine Grigorian filed suit against Burbank in Glendale Superior Court, Burbank City Attorney Dennis Barlow said. Grigorian, 41, and her children Kahren, 18, and Nune, 16, suffered minor neck and back injuries in the collision, Barlow said.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- The woman whose Ford Taurus was struck by a Southwest Airlines 737 jet that skidded off a Burbank Airport runway has sued the airline and the pilots who were at the controls. Attorneys for Granada Hills resident Linda McDonnell filed a personal injury suit Aug. 11 in Los Angeles Superior Court. McDonnell, represented by Pasadena attorney Richard Binder, named pilots Howard Peterson and Jeff Erwin in the lawsuit. McDonnell's action follows a lawsuit filed by Jodi Targon -- one of five passengers injured on March 5 when the plane left the airfield, crashed through a blast fence and stopped on Hollywood Way. Shortly before it came to a stop, the plane struck McDonnell's car. The woman, who was driving with her daughter, sustained injuries to her left leg and shoulder, her attorney said.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE -- Police launched a murder investigation Sunday after finding a 65-year-old woman dead on her front lawn, a police spokesman said. Glendale police spokesman Rick Young would not release the woman's name, since her family had not been contacted, but said she died from blunt force trauma to the upper body. The woman's husband, Allen Reich, found his wife on the lawn of the couple's 192 Wonderview Drive home Sunday morning, shortly before he reported the death at 6:16 a.m., Young said.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE -- It wasn't all child's play Saturday at the United Community Church's Kids Rally Day. Organizers of the children's carnival worked in nonsectarian lessons about character, ethics and safety, United Ministry Director Lonnie Brown said. To educate children, the church asked California Highway Patrol officers to give safety tips on how to avoid troubles with strangers. To provide some basic information for their files, CHP officers fingerprinted children.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- Joining their counterparts in Glendale, members of the Burbank City Council sent a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan opposing nonequestrian events at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. The letter, sent Wednesday, formalized the council's opposition to the project, which was first laid out July 10 in an 11-page critique of the plan. Burbank sent the previous report to the Los Angeles Park and Recreation Board, the five-member panel that will consider the plan.

Paul Clinton BURBANK With no pomp and circumstance and nary a voice of dissent, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority elected officers Wednesday for the coming year. Instead of electing new officers, the authority voted unanimously to reinstall the same ones from last year. Glendale Airport Commissioner Carl Meseck will serve another term, his second, as president. Pasadena Commissioner Chris Holden will continues as vice president and Burbank representative Charles Lombardo stays as secretary.

Paul Clinton AIRPORT DISTRICT -- The woman whose Ford Taurus was struck by a Southwest Airlines 737 jet that skidded off a Burbank Airport runway has sued the airline and the pilots who were at the controls. Attorneys for Granada Hills resident Linda McDonnell filed a personal injury suit Aug. 11 in Los Angeles Superior Court. McDonnell, represented by Pasadena attorney Richard Binder, named pilots Howard Peterson and Jeff Erwin in the lawsuit. McDonnell's action follows a lawsuit filed by Jodi Targon -- one of five passengers injured on March 5 when the plane left the airfield, crashed through a blast fence and stopped on Hollywood Way. Shortly before it came to a stop, the plane struck McDonnell's car. The woman, who was driving with her daughter, sustained injuries to her left leg and shoulder, her attorney said.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE -- When it comes to human rights, France has succeeded where the United States has failed, according to a local Armenian group. The French senate's passage of a resolution recognizing accusations that Ottoman Turkey carried out genocide against Armenians in the first quarter of the 20th Century stands in contrast to the failure of a similar bill in the U.S. Congress last month, a leader of the group said. "France does take the issue of human rights much more seriously than the U.S.," Alex Sardar, executive director of the Western region of the Armenian National Committee, said.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- Pulling into town for a last-minute stop on the campaign trail, presidential hopeful George W. Bush rallied his troops at the Burbank Airport Hilton. Stepping onto a stage in the hotel's largest conference room Monday afternoon, Bush reiterated his call for moral leadership, less taxes and a stronger military. Following a slate of Republicans seeking other offices -- including 43rd State Assembly District candidate Craig Missakian -- Bush spoke to an energized crowd for approximately 30 minutes before heading off to NBC to tape his evening appearance on "The Tonight Show."

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- Organizers of the Burbank International Children's Film Festival expect great things from the event the first time out. With a full schedule of movies that began showing Friday night and will continue through Oct. 19, the festival is generating a buzz in Burbank and Hollywood. "This has become more than a film festival," festival spokeswoman Carole Myers said. "It really is a celebration of children." Myers said about 100,000 visitors are expected during the weeklong event, headquartered at the Media City Center mall.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- With not enough commissioners in town, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority canceled its Monday meeting. The meeting was scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday at the Burbank Airport Skyroom. The meeting was called off because a majority of the commissioners were traveling. With fewer than five of the nine members in town, the authority would not have a quorum. The commissioners and some airport staff members will be attending the Airport Council International's annual convention in New York.

Paul Clinton GLENDALE COURTHOUSE -- A superior court judge postponed a pretrial hearing Friday in the case of a 15-year-old boy accused of killing two other teenagers at an elementary school playground. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Barbara Lee Burke rescheduled the hearing for 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the request of the two attorneys. In a case that has achieved notoriety both inside and outside of Glendale, Michael Demirdjian of La Crescenta has been charged with the July 22 choking and beating deaths of Christopher McCulloch, 13, of La Canada Flintridge, and Blaine Talmo Jr., 14, of Glendale.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- The woman whose Ford Taurus was struck by a Southwest Airlines 737 jet that skidded off a Burbank Airport runway has sued the airline and the pilots who were at the controls. Attorneys for Granada Hills resident Linda McDonnell filed a personal injury suit Aug. 11 in Los Angeles Superior Court. McDonnell, represented by Pasadena attorney Richard Binder, named pilots Howard Peterson and Jeff Erwin in the lawsuit. McDonnell's action follows a lawsuit filed by Jodi Targon -- one of five passengers injured on March 5 when the plane left the airfield, crashed through a blast fence and stopped on Hollywood Way. Shortly before it came to a stop, the plane struck McDonnell's car. The woman, who was driving with her daughter, sustained injuries to her left leg and shoulder, her attorney said.

Paul Clinton AIRPORT DISTRICT -- The woman whose Ford Taurus was struck by a Southwest Airlines 737 jet that skidded off a Burbank Airport runway has sued the airline and the pilots who were at the controls. Attorneys for Granada Hills resident Linda McDonnell filed a personal injury suit Aug. 11 in Los Angeles Superior Court. McDonnell, represented by Pasadena attorney Richard Binder, named pilots Howard Peterson and Jeff Erwin in the lawsuit. McDonnell's action follows a lawsuit filed by Jodi Targon -- one of five passengers injured on March 5 when the plane left the airfield, crashed through a blast fence and stopped on Hollywood Way. Shortly before it came to a stop, the plane struck McDonnell's car. The woman, who was driving with her daughter, sustained injuries to her left leg and shoulder, her attorney said.

Paul Clinton SOUTH GLENDALE -- To lower the number of accidents between pedestrians and motorists, the city installed flashing street lights at two Glendale Avenue intersections. Known as a "pavement lighting system," the lights line the outer edge of crosswalks where Garfield Avenue and Cypress Street intersect Glendale. The City Council approved $50,000 in funding for the two intersections in February. City workers finished installing the lights July 24. The safety measure has been well received by neighborhood dwellers who have long complained about an unsafe situation.

Paul Clinton BURBANK -- Joining their counterparts in Glendale, members of the Burbank City Council sent a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan opposing nonequestrian events at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. The letter, sent Wednesday, formalized the council's opposition to the project, which was first laid out July 10 in an 11-page critique of the plan. Burbank sent the previous report to the Los Angeles Park and Recreation Board, the five-member panel that will consider the plan.