West San Gabriel Valley news from Alhambra, San Gabriel, Rosemead, Monterey Park, South Pasadena, and Pasadena:

• Police: Stolen van, mail, other items recovered in Pasadena (Pasadena Star-News)
• Pasadena Radio Shack robbed (Pasadena Star-News)
• Checkpoints net more than 100 arrests throughout the San Gabriel Valley (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
• El Segundo schools superintendent Geoff Yantz expected to take top job in South Pasadena (Pasadena Star-News)
• Pasadena Unified School District won’t release superintendent evaluations (Pasadena Star-News)
• Los Angeles County Metro restructuring could endanger 710 Freeway extension, activists say (Pasadena Star-News)
• John Scott wants to reform the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (Pasadena Star-News)
• Bruce Kalman's Union, Cali-Italian cuisine in Pasadena (Eater)
• Pigs ears and vampiros: Jonathan Gold finds 7 good tacos in Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley with a surprise inside (Los Angeles Times)