West Covina News

For the 30th consecutive year, West Covina has been named a "Tree City USA" by the National Arbor Day Foundation.

Welcome to Meanwhile, In SGV a regular feature in which TC, our fearless leader in all things San Gabriel Valley, brings word of restaurant openings, closings, and other unsung, curious neighborhood goings on.

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A man and his female passenger were taken into custody Wednesday after leading police on a pursuit in a stolen vehicle, according to Baldwin Park police.

Mark Twain said whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting over. But the same can be true of schools.

Now imagine that you can pull each flower out and eat it. That gives you a pretty good idea of what The Cookie Pop Shop is all about.

Police arrested a teenage boy Thursday after he robbed another teen of his cell phone on Vincent Avenue, authorities said.

Not being from here, I doubt that young boys from Glendora, Huntington Beach, Pasadena or West Covina grow up wishing they could skate on ice and slap at a small, circular puck with a wooden stick.

News editors usually get a whole lot of outside mail. Being a publication that stays mainly within the city and the surrounding cities that impact it most, Patch editors don't always use everything we get.

A pickup truck flipped over on the eastbound 10 Freeway at Pacific Avenue, trapping a woman and blocking two lanes for about an hour Tuesday morning.

Investigators said two officers, a civilian and the defendant, German Jimenez, were wounded in the May 28, 2010 shootout on Valley Boulevard and Durfee Avenue.

Dr. Miles Masatsugu takes Gloria Mejia's blood pressure. Mejia was the first patient seen at East Valley Community Health Center's new Villacorta clinic on May 15.

West Covina police didn't say how much money the robbers stole from the house in the 1600 block of West Robindale Street.

A teacher has been ordered to pay the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District $5,000 in restitution after investigators found that she was working at another job while claiming to be disabled.

Eastland Center an 805,000-square-foot retail power center in West Covina on Monday.

Joyce Kavanagh pets her cat as she sits in her room at the Silverado Senior Living Center Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Encinitas, Calif.

Two challengers are hoping for a chance to unseat incumbent Roger Hernandez, a Democrat who is running for re-election as a representative for the state's 48th Assembly District.

A 60-year-old woman was injured early Friday when an armed man punched her in the face and stole her car.

Police checking out an alarm call at an auto repair shop early Thursday found the cause still inside.

A 36-year-old Norwalk man following a car with burglary suspects was shot and wounded by one of the suspects Wednesday night.