THE818NOW
January 25, 2013
A tenant at a Burbank apartment complex was hospitalized Tuesday after her landlord allegedly attacked her with bleach after a verbal spat, police said. The landlord -- Donald Rohwer, 65 -- was working in the woman's apartment in the 1000 block of West Angeleno Avenue at around 3 p.m. when the pair got into an argument about the work being done, said Burbank Police Officer Joshua Kendrick. Reportedly feeling “threatened,” Rohwer allegedly sprayed the woman's face with a bleach and water solution, Kendrick said.
NEWS
By Maria Hsin, maria.hsin@latimes.com | May 11, 2012
Closing arguments wrapped up Friday afternoon for a lawsuit filed by a female police officer, who claims she faced discrimination and harassment because of her pregnancy, and retaliation when she complained. On Thursday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge told jurors they could not consider other claims made by Officer Cindy Guillen in the lawsuit, including that she faced harassment based on her ethnicity and gender. Jurors will decide whether Guillen should be awarded up to $500,000 for pain and suffering, and up to $30,000 for lost wages due to allegedly being taken off an assignment in retaliation for lodging a complaint.
THE818NOW
February 6, 2012
A Sun Valley man was shot and killed Sunday after a dispute with a neighbor turned deadly, police said. Travis Solorio, 26, was shot when he got into a argument with a neighbor at 11:10 p.m., a dispute that attracted the attention of others on Tamarack Avenue, police said. Someone in the group that had gathered pulled out a gun and shot Solorio multiple times, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department. He was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later at a local hospital.
THE818NOW
November 2, 2011
A federal judge's failure to disclose whether he intended to marry his long-term, same-sex partner before presiding over the Proposition 8 case amounts to misconduct that requires the removal of his ruling against the 2008 ballot measure, lawyers opposed to gay marriage told a federal appeals court. In written arguments to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, both sides in the gay marriage legal dispute debated whether the sexual orientation of retired Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker might have affected the case.
NEWS
By Gretchen Meier, gretchen.meier@latimes.com | December 22, 2010
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge dismissed a case that could have required more hoops for a planned 24 Hour Fitness on West Empire Avenue. Burbank Athletic Club owner Greg Bedrossian and longtime city critic Mike Nolan sued in late June to block the city from allowing the 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport. They argued that the city failed to comply with its own review procedures and ignored potential parking problems related to the proposed gym. But Superior Court Judge Ann Jones dismissed those claims, finding that the pair's argument "grossly mischaracterizes the actual findings in the case.
NEWS
August 18, 2010
The following were reports taken by Burbank Police Department. AREA 1 400 block of South Keystone Street A argument between two roommates resulted in a man receiving several minor lacerations to his leg at 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 11. Two roommates, a man and a woman, were involved in a verbal argument over the her taking the man's car without permission. The argument became heated, the woman grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the man in his leg. The woman fled the scene and could not be immediately located.
NEWS
By June Casagrande | April 14, 2010
Recently, on one of the baseball blogs my husband reads, the blogger veered from the topic of sports to talk about the common misuse of the expression ?to beg the question.? The blog post included a link to a column, written by someone else, on the ?beg the question? question. My husband thought it was a good column topic for me. But, hating to feel like I?m jumping someone else?s train, I wasn?t too keen on the idea. A few days later I was at a lunch with a group of women writer friends, and one of the attendees started talking about the common misuse of ?
LOCAL
April 10, 2010
The following were taken from daily booking reports at the Burbank Police Department. AREA 1 900 block of North Hollywood Way Two employees of a mattress store got into an argument in which one of the employees punched and attacked the other. One of the employees pulled out a box-cutter razor and tried to stab the other. The fight was finally broken up by their co-workers. The victim was bruised, and the case is under investigation.
FEATURES
April 7, 2010
Robert Buniatyan, in attacking health-care reform, simply restates the Republican arguments that have been debated for an entire year (“Bill takes away freedoms,” March 26). Simply stated, Buniatyan, you lost, get over it. Or join up with the “repealers” and see where that gets you politically. When your guy was in charge I strongly and vocally opposed the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the massive tax cuts that went almost totally to the already rich and led to the $1.2-trillion deficit, the bank bailouts and the 2008 Great Recession that President Obama inherited.