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Motorcyclist Killed In Concord Crash Sunday
A 32-year-old man aboard a motorcycle on Ygnacio Valley between Crystyl Ranch Drive and Cowell roads was killed early Sunday in a collision with a car driven by a juvenile male, a passing ambulance crew coming across the scene at about 1:20 a.m. Police arrived to investigate the cause of the collision shortly after it…
Read MoreHang Onto Your Bins! It’s Raining In The 24/680!
Heavy rain is coming down in places today, Thursday, with some areas getting more precipitation than others. Craig Cannon was out and about today, looking for things to photograph as usual, when the skies opened up.
Read MoreOvernight Chase Winds Through Lafayette; Ends With Crash In Orinda
A twisting, often wrong-way pursuit over rain slickened streets made its way through a good portion of Lafayette early Thursday before the object of police attention – a white work van – crashed at 16 E. Altarinda Drive in Orinda. The chase kicked off shortly after 2 a.m. when the van was spotted by a…
Read MoreKiesle Charged In Fatal Rossmoor DUI Case
Defrocked priest Stephen Miller Kiesle was charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence of alcohol, and special allegations for prior felonies Wednesday in connection with the April 16 death of fellow Rossmoor resident Curtis Gunn, 64. Kiesle is being held in the Martinez Detention Facility on $600,000 bail. Investigators say Kiesle,…
Read MoreShamed Former Priest Arrested For Suspicion Of Vehicular Manslaughter After Fatal Rossmoor Collision
A former Oakland priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of children was arrested in Rossmoor Saturday night after his car jumped a curb and ran down a man and wife. Stephen Kiesle, 75, a former Oakland priest who served six years in prison after pleading no contest to molesting a minor girl in 1995, was…
Read MoreMissing Kid, Drone Porn, Hot Ticket, And The Meat Market
Made it through the weekend, though it was touch-and-go at times. Let’s see (mumbling to ourselves as we leaf through notes we made at the time), it seems people are drinking heavily and running into things, check, and at times it appeared we were in the opening moments of M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Happening” as…
Read MoreJuvenile Arrested For Murder On Johnson Drive In Concord Saturday
As we first mentioned in a Flash Alert issued at the time, a man was shot at the corner of Meadow Lane and Johnson Drive at approximately 9:53 a.m. Saturday morning, later dying of his wounds at a local hospital. Concord police, in a social media post Sunday, say they have identified a “juvenile suspect”…
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24/680 Movie Trivia Answer: “Swim Team!”
And we have a winner… sort of! “St. Elsewhere Fan,” (why you folks don’t use your actual names baffles us but what the hey…) swims up to the answer of our local movie trivia question and backs into it. It is, of course, the universally acclaimed 1979 film epic “Swim Team,” a chip off the…
Read MoreCounty Notifying Some Employees Of Data Breach
From the County Administrator’s Office: (Martinez, CA) – On March 11, 2022, Contra Costa County, California (the “County”) completed an investigation regarding an incident of unauthorized access to certain County employee email accounts. The County is notifying individuals whose personal information was in one of the email accounts and providing information about the incident and…
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