CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 13, 2010 | By Zain Shauk, Los Angeles Times
The Glendale City Council this week gave its blessing to a proposed 338,000-square-foot expansion of Walt Disney Co.'s creative campus. The plans call for a six-story office building walled largely in glass, landscaping with palm trees and a park-like area for outdoor activities. "It's a beautiful project," Councilwoman Laura Friedman, chairwoman of the Glendale Redevelopment Agency, said during a public hearing on the development. "It's going to look terrific and certainly improve the area aesthetically."
ENTERTAINMENT
October 27, 2009 | Christine N. Ziemba
For years, Old Town Newhall in Santa Clarita has been wrangling with an identity crisis. Its history is entwined in the Wild West -- oil, gold and ranching -- but the city of Santa Clarita is redeveloping, encouraging the proliferation of new bicycle shops and boutiques on Main Street (also known as San Fernando Road) and hoping to turn the area into an arts and entertainment district. Just a few weeks back, Santa Clarita's Festival of Arts ( www.streetartfest.com) took over the area, strong evidence of a new direction.
OPINION
October 23, 2009
Re "Plans for trains, river may collide," Oct. 18 The Times' weekend picture of a man walking along the Metrolink tracks near San Fernando Road is the height of irresponsibility. Just weeks after a series of articles in your paper about Metrolink safety, you show an individual walking with his back to train traffic and trespassing on a railroad right of way. It's unsafe and against the law. You owe an apology to all the public safety professionals, railroad workers and volunteers who spend hours trying to teach adults and children to stay away from the railroad.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 27, 2009 | Doug Smith and Nathan Olivarez-Giles
When pedestrians are struck by Metrolink trains, rail officials are often quick to declare them suicides or trespassers and slow to try to prevent others from the same fate. Critics say that in many deaths, Metrolink performs only cursory investigations and fails to follow up with measures that could make it harder for people to reach the tracks. For example, when Joan Vowels stepped into the path of a train in 1994, Metrolink released a statement saying she was a Bible-toting transient.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 9, 2008 | Molly Hennessy-Fiske
A 25-year-old Northridge man who allegedly dangled his girlfriend's 18-month-old daughter from a second-story motel railing in Sylmar on Tuesday was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, authorities said. Los Angeles police officers responding to reports of a kidnapping in progress about 1 a.m. found Antonio Llerenas fighting with his girlfriend at the Del Monico Motel at 13055 San Fernando Road, police said. Llerenas, who is not the baby's father, reportedly struggled with police.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 28, 2001 | DAVID PIERSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Two men and a teenage boy, all pedestrians, were critically injured in two separate hit-and-run accidents in Pacoima believed to be committed by the same driver Thursday night, authorities said. The men, who are in their 30s, were struck by a vehicle in the 11400 block of San Fernando Road about 8:30 p.m., fire officials said.