Gas Prices + Monrovia Reads Mobile Literacy Van + Taco Tuesday

Happy Friday, everyone! This is your local Patch editor here with the latest edition of the Monrovia Digest. Here are some of our top stories for today: a COVID outbreak at a Los Angeles prep school, gas prices on the rise in L.A. County, Monrovia Reads gets a new van and Taco Tuesday in the city.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 74 Low: 58.

Here are the top stories today in Monrovia:

1. Man Who May Have Driven Suicidal Teen to Pasadena Overpass Gets 16-to-Life for Sex Attack, Attempted Murder (Pasadena Now)
2. COVID Outbreak Reverts LA Prep School Back to Distance Learning (NBC Southern California)
3. Gas prices in Los Angeles County rise to highest amount since 2012 (FOX 11 Los Angeles)
4. California sets new transparency rules for behested payments (Los Angeles Times)
5. Monrovia Reads To Host Van Launch Party Later This Month (Monrovia Patch)
6. It’s Taco Tuesday every day of the week on Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia (The San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
7. Woman, 91, Reported Missing in Highland Park Area (MyNewsLA.com)
8. Photos: Nation’s largest Tiny Home Village for homeless opens in Highland Park (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
9. Shots fired at sheriff’s deputies in East L.A., no injuries reported (KTLA Los Angeles)

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