Covina News

The city's oldest commercial building will be honored by the Historical Society of West Covina today.

THE PLACE: Just a little more than a year after changing ownership, The Chatterbox in Covina has changed from a hole-in-the-wall dive bar to a cool hole-in-the-wall hangout.

If you have yet to discover the treasure which is the Covina Center for the Performing Arts, you are missing one of the great theatrical treats of the San Gabriel Valley.

Two restaurants at the Eastland Shopping Center were evacuated Thursday after underground electrical equipment exploded, officials said.

City officials have shelved plans to transform portions of the former BKK landfill into an 18-hole public golf course.

Open virtually any newspaper or turn on the TV and you're bound to hear gloom and doom about the nation's economy.

A public hearing on a proposed $150 increase in sewer rates over the next three years will be held Tuesday night.

A local woman was recovering in stable condition Sunday after her husband allegedly stabbed her, officials said.

Police returned a life-size bronze statue valued at $25,000 to its owner after an alleged thief attempted to sell it to a Montclair recycling plant.

A $25,000 bronze statue that was stolen from a Covina business has been found. The alleged thief sold the statue to an Ontario recycling company, which grew suspicious about the item and notified police.

A woman was flown to the hospital in unknown condition Friday after she was reportedly stabbed by her husband, officials said.

Disease control researchers discovered mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus in Covina and Arcadia, officials said Wednesday.

A loophole in the state's employee retirement benefits for families of public safety officers was closed Wednesday.

A man doused himself in what appeared to be gasoline Wednesday night and threatened to set himself on fire, authorities said.

But a research paper Powers wrote as a returning college student unveiled a wealth of information about the grandfather she never knew: the prolific pulp fiction writer Paul S. Powers.

A man suspected of driving a stolen car led police on a brief chase Wednesday afternoon before coming to a crashing halt, authorities said.

A police pursuit ended with a collision at Irwindale Avenue and Peppertree Lane just before 4 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.

A proposal to convert carpool lanes into toll lanes might start on the 110 Freeway instead of the 210 Freeway.

In what a fire captain called a "freak incident," a 50-foot geyser erupted from a fire hydrant for about an hour and a half, officials said.

The e-mail I received Sunday from my former colleague Phil Drake ended simply: "P.S. Did they ever catch Moe?" Monday morning it was the first thing I asked our intern Thomas Himes, who has been on "Moe Watch" ...