🌱 How a nearby shooting highlights gun violence around La Puente

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• How a nearby shooting highlights gun violence around La Puente

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📰 News we're reading

• Man Wounded in Shooting Near La Puente (newsbreak.com) — A man was recently wounded in a shooting near La Puente, adding to a pattern of gunfire incidents affecting nearby South San Jose Hills and surrounding communities. The report explains how California law treats shooting into homes or from vehicles, and notes that sheriff's deputies from Industry Station patrol La Puente and adjacent neighborhoods where these incidents have occurred.
   

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  13965 E. Ramona Parkway, Baldwin Park
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🗞 Nearby News

Industry

• 'We're not making money': $8 diesel leaves California truckers fighting to survive (latimes.com)
• 'Home of the Future' at LACMA explores dark side of American dream (latimes.com)
• Ben Gleib built a late-night show in his house -- he's not the only comedian going DIY (latimes.com)

West Covina

• Fredrick Sykes, West Covina City Council District 5 candidate, 2026 election questionnaire (sgvtribune.com)

Baldwin Park

• Baldwin Park Remembers The Dead With Annual Día De Los Muertos Celebration Oct. 23 (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?" — A chalk board (Thank you Charlie H. for sending it in!)
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