La-Crescenta News

By 3 a.m. Tuesday, the line for H1N1 flu vaccines was forming outside the Glendale Civic Auditorium.

Randi Burton 51 with her original, vintage, handmade one of a kind clothing at her business Nothing Can Top It! in Arcadia Wednesday November 5, 2009.

Date : Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:48:36 +0400 SCHOOL FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ARMENIAN CULTURE By Max Zimbert Glendale News Press Nov 2 2009 CA Photo: Patil Kilisian, 3, dances during a performance by the Hamazkayin Valley Chapter Nairi Dance Group during the 35th anniversary celebration of Chamlian Armenian School in La Crescenta on Sunday.

The Eta Lambda Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. co-sponsored its Second Annual Health Resource Fair on Saturday, October 10th at the Jackie Robinson Community Center.

The Department of Public Works is offering free car oil filters and other promotional items in La Crescenta on Saturday.

Four the fourth time in just over a week, a foothill city bank has been robbed, authorities said.

Residents in the foothill communities hit by the Station fire cheered when officials trucked in thousands of white concrete highway barriers and placed them in front of their homes.

Deputies released surveillance photos of the man who robbed a Citibank in La Crescenta on Monday morning.

From her home in the high reaches of La Crescenta, Jackie Genofile watched last week as hillsides so recently denuded by fire, and so ripe for collapse, bore the new insult of rain.

Coroner's officials released the name Saturday of a woman who was killed in an apparent murder suicide at her home.

Southern California is expected to see a sharp change in the weather now that a Pacific storm has blown out of the region and -- so far -- spared fire-charred mountain areas from disastrous mudslides.

The burned, crumbling hillsides of Deukmejian Wilderness Park were an alien sight to visitors Saturday who got an inside look at what authorities fear is a disaster waiting to happen.

Los Angeles County authorities said the communities most in danger of being hit by mudslides overnight included Big Tujunga Canyon, La Canada-Flintridge, La Crescenta and Glendale.

With gloves soaked from the cold, steady rain, Paul Dutton unloaded sandbags from his truck this afternoon near the corner of Boston Avenue and Markridge Road in Glendale.

With eyes on the clouds, residents busily filled sandbags and county workers erected more barriers Tuesday as rain threatened to unleash mud and debris from hillsides where the Station Fire raged this summer.

By SOLVEJ SCHOU and RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writers 2 hrs 1 min ago LOS ANGELES A big Pacific storm swept into California on Tuesday with damaging winds and downpours that put a community near Santa Cruz under an evacuation advisory because of potential mudslides, while homeowners near the wildfires that burned parts of Southern ...

Workers with the City of Glendale Parks, Recreation & Community Services set sand bags at the... Workers with the City of Glendale Parks, Recreation & Community Services set sand bags at the Deukmejian Wilderness Park overlooking the foothill communities of La Crescenta and Tujunga, in Glendale, Calif.

Fears of how an imminent rainstorm might affect hillsides scorched by the Station Fire may be realized tonight when a storm hits Los Angeles County.

Southern California communities below wildfire-scorched mountains made preparations Monday for the possibility of fast-moving floods laden with mud and rocks as a Pacific storm headed for the West Coast.

LA CRESCENTA, Calif. a " Residents of the area near the Deukmejian Wilderness Park visited the park for the first time since the Station fire that tore through a quarter of the Angeles National Forest last month.Canyons once covered in green chaparral were left blackened by backfires lit to prevent the spread of the wildfire.La Crescenta resident ...