San Gabriel Valley Tribune

1 day ago | sgvtribune.com | Anissa Rivera

More than 150 animal shelters across California will be waiving adoption fees on the second annual Adopt-a-Pet Day with the goal of finding loving homes for 5,000 dogs, cats, horses, and other small animals. The ASPCA is providing grants to underwrite the adoption fees for most of these shelters, and it is also providing spay/neuter support, so animals will be ready to go home on the day. “Choosing adoption is a powerful action that helps both animals and people—in California and nationwide.

1 day ago | sgvtribune.com | Anissa Rivera

It was, Sgt. Carlos Langarica said, no time wasted. In uniform, a black mourning band over his police badge, Langarica watched as mourners dropped bouquets of flowers off to a growing memorial in honor of Baldwin Park Police Officer Samuel Riveros, who was gunned day May 31 while responding to a call. “We do this job to help people who can’t help themselves, we’re all regular people, and this is something we hope we never have to deal with,” Langarica said. “I’m just so very sorry.

3 days ago | sgvtribune.com | Andrea Klick |Ruby Gonzales

A man accused of fatally shooting a Baldwin Park police officer and a civilian before he was shot was charged Tuesday, June 3, with first-degree murder with special circumstances in the deaths of the officer, Samuel Riveros, and a civilian, Darius Wong of Walnut. The charges were announced by Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman at a news conference attended by Baldwin Park police and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officials.

3 days ago | sgvtribune.com | Kristen Taketa

For five years, Eric Shirley taught home-school students for a small California charter school network called Elite Academic Academy. He left in 2023, he said, because of several things he found fishy about Elite’s administration. Among them: Elite’s CEO Meghan Freeman lives in a mountain resort town in Montana and gets paid more than $380,000 in salary and benefits each year to serve 1,800 students.

4 days ago | sgvtribune.com | Ruby Gonzales

The man accused of gunning down a visitor to a Baldwin Park neighborhood, then fatally shooting an officer in the head and wounding a second officer faces murder and other charges. Eduardo Berumen-Medina, 22, who was shot by at least one other officer, remained under guard at a hospital as of Monday, June 2, sheriff’s Lt. Michael Modica said. He was arrested and booked on suspicion of two counts of murder, Modica said, with his bail set at $4 million.