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An English instructor at Glendale Community College recently sent an email encouraging the campus community to join in protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The call came as riotous demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles have included destruction of property, looting, arson incidents, and the injury of at least five police officers. On Sunday, Julie Gamberg, a faculty member at Glendale Community College, sent an email promoting anti-ICE demonstrations organized by the Democratic Socialists of America’s Los Angeles chapter, according to screenshots of the note circulated on X. “Citizens who know their rights can disrupt and slow ICE incursions,” states...

At least three people have died and five more were wounded Sunday after multiple shooters opened fire at an Arizona restaurant, police said. The shooting at El Camarón Gigante in downtown Glendale began as a fight between "at least two groups of people" near the restaurant's stage area, Glendale police said in a statement Monday. The people involved were told to go outside, spurring another altercation, which ended in gunfire, police said. The three victims were identified only as a 17-year-old male, a 21-year-old man and a 29-year-old, police said Monday. The 17- and 29-year-old males were brothers. Wounded were...

Police and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have arrested an Arizona man for allegedly making expletive-laden death threats against President-elect Donald Trump and his family and attempting to illegally buy guns. The suspect, Manuel Tamayo-Torres, also posted photos from a Trump rally in August in Glendale, according to court documents – a rally that took place less than six weeks after the first assassination attempt on Trump's life in Butler, Pennsylvania.

RFK Jr. speaks at the Tucker Carlson Election Tour fundraiser for hurricane victims. Glendale, AZ 2024-10-31. Excellent speech by RFK Jr. on why Trump must be elected.

"We are coming together to support those affected by the recent hurricane. All proceeds from this event will be donated to hurricane relief efforts, providing much-needed aid and resources to communities in need.” Former President Donald Trump will join Tucker Carlson at a live event in Glendale, AZ to benefit victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton on Oct. 31, just days before the Nov. 5, 2024, presidential election. The event is part of a tour organized by the Tucker Carlson Network that brings Carlson together with notable Republican and conservative leaders at designated cities across the US. The Glendale stop...

Desert Diamond Arena at 9400 W Maryland Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85305. Friday, August 9, 2024. Doors open at 1:30 PM. Please arrive no later than 3:30 PM. PHOENIX (AZFamily/AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, continue their tour of battleground states this week, with campaign events happening in Michigan on Thursday and Arizona on Friday.

Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance to Hold a Rally in Glendale, Arizona Event Details Wed, July 31, 202406:00 pm (US/Mountain) [8 pm Eastern]

BARSTOW, Calif. (KABC) -- A preliminary magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck the Barstow area Monday afternoon, rattling a large portion of Southern California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck around 1 p.m. at a depth of nearly six miles. Shaking was felt in Calabasas, Los Angeles, Glendale and beyond. No injuries or damages were immediately reported.

On Wednesday (Nov. 15), Hans Schmidt, a 26-year-old outreach director at Victory Chapel First Phoenix, was shot in the head while he was street preaching in Glendale, Arizona. Schmidt, who is a military veteran, a husband, and a father of two young children, was on the corner of 51st Avenue and Peoria around 6 p.m. Wednesday evening and was preaching through a megaphone. According to Paul Sanchez, a nearby worker who has witnessed the outreach director street preach many times, there was a car filled with people who were screaming at Schmidt to “get off the street.” “There was a...

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A California school board meeting descended into chaos on Tuesday when protesters began fighting in the street amid a debate over whether to recognize Pride month. Glendale Unified School District was due to hold a vote on officially marking Pride this year - as they have done for the last four years. Protests had been peaceful during the day, but around 6pm scuffles broke out between around 200 protesters and counter-demonstrators. ..... Lots of photos and videos.

Massive brawl breaks out outside Glendale CA school board. (Credit: Sergio Olmos)A huge fight broke out outside the Glendale School Board meeting in Los Angeles as parents, many of them from the Armenian-American community, came to protest the school’s pride events. Naturally, the left-wing zealots—read “Antifa”—showed up in force, and as you will see, some serious punches were thrown on both sides. A heavy police presence attempted to stop the fighting, violently pulling apart combatants to prevent serious injury.Someone with a bullhorn shouts, “Do not engage! Step away. We are not here to fight!” Maybe that person wasn’t there to...

While New York, California, and Boston continue to be the most expensive rental markets in the country, some unexpected locales have actually experienced the largest increases in one-bedroom apartment prices year-over-year.Greensboro, North Carolina, sits atop the list with rent increases of 74.2 percent, followed by Newport News, Virginia, at 60.7 percent, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 59.8 percent, according to Rent.com’s August report. Jon Leckie, a researcher with Rent.com, told The Epoch Times that such increases aren’t unusual, given the amount of people who have been flocking to these areas.“We’re seeing a pattern where the markets around the larger metro areas...

President Joe Biden has been called ‘creepy’ after he was seen telling a nurse running a vaccine site that she ‘looks like a freshman.’ The president has been accused of attempting to flirt with the young nurse during a public video conference call with health care workers in Glendale, Arizona. During the video conference, health care workers provided Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with a virtual tour of the State Farm Stadium vaccination site. Nurse Brittney Hayes had just finished describing the process for residents to get the Pfizer vaccine and how it is being called a ‘dose of...

Over the last few months President Donald Trump and Republicans have wondered how the United States Postal Service (USPS) will be able to handle the influx of mail this fall with the election in November, especially as more states move to voting by mail.  The concerns seem valid, especially considering the USPS is now launching an investigation into bags of mail being dumped in two different locations in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.One of the instances was caught on a surveillance camera outside of a spa. A Budget rental truck can be seen backing up before a man...

GLENDALE (CBSLA) — An investigation was underway after surveillance video captured bags of mail being dumped in the parking lot of a Glendale spa Thursday morning. The video, taken outside of 7Q salon, shows a Budget box truck backed into the parking lot. Moments later, bag after bag could be seen being tossed out of the back of the truck and onto the ground. Lilia Serobian, co-owner of the salon, found the bags and took cell phone video as she realized they were filled with hundreds of unopened envelopes and packages from the U.S. Postal Service. “It was completely unusual,”...

At least two people were struck by gunfire and a third was in custody after a shooting Wednesday evening in a suburban Phoenix entertainment district, police said. The extent of injuries was not immediately known. Arizona's Glendale Police Department asked residents to stay clear of the Westgate Entertainment District, but tweeted that "There are no more reports of any active shooting." State Sen. Martin Quezada, D-Phoenix, said on Twitter that he had seen the attack. "I just witnessed an armed terrorist with an AR-15 shoot up Westgate," he wrote.

Police Taze Man With Hands Up After Catching Him Stealing A Bike! Are They Wrong?

On July 27, 2017, Johnny Wheatcroft was a passenger in a silver Ford Taurus when a pair of Glendale police officers pulled in front them in a Motel 6 parking lot. The stop was for an alleged turn signal violation. Minutes later, Wheatcroft was handcuffed lying face down on the hot asphalt on a 108-degree day. He'd already been tased 10 times, with one officer kneeling on his back as another, Officer Matt Schneider, kicked him in the groin and pulled down his athletic shorts to tase him a final time in his testicles, according to a federal lawsuit and...

A sign for Artsakh Avenue — formerly a stretch of Maryland Avenue — was unveiled Tuesday, October 2, during a street naming ceremony hosted by the city of Glendale. The event drew officials from near and far: All five Glendale City Council members were present, in addition to state Sen. Anthony Portantino and Robert Avetisyan, a US representative for Artsakh, which is a contested republic between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In June, the City Council voted 4-0 to rename a two-block section of Maryland Avenue, between Wilson Avenue and Harvard Street, to Artsakh Avenue. During the decision-making process, Councilman Ara Najarian...