Fire Damages Moraga Home Thursday

A Tharp Drive home was damaged after fire broke out at the residence shortly after noon Thursday. Neighbors reported flames coming from the residence in the 400 block of Tharp at approximately 12:14 p.m. Several Moraga-Orinda Fire Protecting District apparatus and crews responded, quickly bringing the blaze under control. The elderly resident of the home…

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San Ramon’s Cal High Locked Down After Phone Threat Wednesday

Administrators at California High School in San Ramon invoked lockdown protocols for the campus Wednesday after a phone threat from an individual believed to have called on a disguised or “spoofed” phone line. As in another recent incident at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek, Wednesday’s threat coincided with others received at other schools…

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Alamo Teen In Federal Court For Alleged Fentanyl Sales

A local teen who allegedly sold fentanyl pills that left one user dead appeared in federal court on related charges Tuesday. Ozymandias Troy Watson, 18, of Alamo, appeared in United States District Court in Oakland. Federal prosecutors have charged him with possessing fentanyl in the form of counterfeit “M30” pills with intent to sell. Prosecutors…

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Wait. We’re Talking About Banning Books? Again?

We’ll state flatly that we weren’t at last night San Ramon Valley Unified School District board meeting. We just couldn’t bring ourselves to go. It’s not that we’re afraid of the “Angry Parents,” the description most often used to describe people upset over, well, just about anything these days, all looking for an opportunity to…

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Pursuits End In Arrests, Damage To Structures And Cars Tuesday

Unrelated attempts to outrun the Long Arm of the Law resulted in widespread damage to private property, arrests and possibly a case of pneumonia as one desperate individual plunged into a Pleasant Hill Creek in his effort to avoid arrest. Things got off to a raucous start in Martinez as detectives attempting to detain a…

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Lifeless Eyes; Bald-Faced Lies; And The Voyage Of Discovery

Discovery motions underway in a widely watched (by some, at least) court action against a propaganda peddler masquerading as a news outlet have turned up some interesting tidbits. Turns out the purveyors of disinformation swallowed whole by a large part of the nation knew they were pushing the political leanings of their corporate master, knew…

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Shooting In San Ramon Saturday, One Wounded

A woman was shot and seriously wounded by a masked gunman who fired several shots before leaving her outside the Mill Creek apartments in the 900 block of Waterstone Place in San Ramon Saturday. Neighbors reported hearing gunfire at approximately 11 p.m. and responding officers quickly located the wounded person. She was transferred to a…

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Felony Charges Filed Against Former Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Deputy

From the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office: Martinez, California – Today, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office filed multiple felony charges and one misdemeanor charge against 41-year-old Matthew Buckley for offenses that occurred when he was a deputy with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office. Buckley is facing charges of grand theft, unlawful possession…

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Standoff In Danville Neighborhood Following Alleged Assault Friday

A Danville neighborhood was cut off and homes evacuated as police attempted to talk a man suspected of an attack on a family member out of his residence. Details of the alleged attack, reportedly with a knife, remained murky as the suspect retreated into the family home on Glasgow Drive and resisted efforts by police…

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