San Gabriel Valley Tribune

13 hours ago | sgvtribune.com | Mike Stobbe |Geoff Mulvihill

By MIKE STOBBE and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated PressThere were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023. The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years.

3 days ago | sgvtribune.com | Patricia Bunin

Although this will be the second Mother’s Day we’ve spent together, Katelyn Watkins and I still haven’t figured out which one of us is the mother. Katelyn, my friend in the night, and I met several years ago at about 2:30 a.m. when I emailed a writing submission to TELEPHONE, an international arts project where she is an editor. Middle-of-the-night communiques are not unusual for me, but getting a response about 15 minutes later was a surprise. Who was this person who also wrote in the night?

4 days ago | sgvtribune.com | Anissa Rivera

The three Evelyns are bound by blood, by duty and by obvious beauty. The first Evelyn was a stalwart educator in Los Angeles, born of a Texas family that moved to California in 1879. Her daughter made community her life’s work, raising six children on her own in Altadena. The third Evelyn in this family’s line was brilliant and opinionated, a lover of horror films and probing into conspiracies. It is she her mother mourns this Mother’s Day.

5 days ago | sgvtribune.com | Ruby Gonzales

A driver was arrested Thursday, May 8 after shooting at a drone and leading Claremont police on a 20-mile chase during which he shot several times at pursuing officers, authorities said. No officers were hit, Lt. Jason Walters said, adding investigators seized a loaded firearm and additional loaded magazines at the scene. Claremont Police received a 911 call at 7:38 p.m. about someone shooting at a drone near the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park at 4031 N. Mills Ave., Walters said.

5 days ago | sgvtribune.com | Julianna Lozada

Meals have long been a way to bring Filipinos together. As a first-generation Filipina American, I belong to a community shaped by fellow children of immigrant families attempting to assimilate into American culture while simultaneously remaining connected to our Filipino roots. Family gatherings were ritualistically centered around large amounts of food. Rarely would we leave hungry or without several containers of leftovers — which our Tita (aunt) would insist we take home.