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Longbrook Way In Pleasant Hill Sealed Off As Police Investigate Apparent Explosives Case
Police in Pleasant Hill cordoned off a section of Longbrook Way in their city Friday while investigating the apparent discovery of explosives or the ingredients needed to make an explosive in a local apartment. The discovery was apparently made while police were investigating earlier – unspecified – vandalisms in Pleasant Hill and Clayton. Clayton PD…
Read MoreCouncil Studying Noise, Distancing Restrictions For Protestors At Walnut Creek Planned Parenthood
Abortion protesters may have to keep their distance and the noise down outside Walnut Creek’s Planned Parenthood clinic if an ordinance under consideration by the city council is formally approved two weeks from now. If passed, the ordinance would require protestors to stay a set distance away from patients within a 100 feet of the…
Read MoreCrash Into Power Pole In Concord Sunday
Vehicle into a power pole on Treat Blvd. near Cuneo Drive with wires twanging. PG&E is on the way. Not hearing of any outages yet but Treat Boulevard is closed in both directions between Cowell Rd. and Navaronne Way as well as a bunch of side streets including Cuneo Dr. Expect road closures into the…
Read MoreLETTERS: America’s Train Wreck – Watching The “Slow-Motion Coup”
Editor; I write out of a growing sense of concern I have over the direction taken by a significant number of my countrymen and women I feel is pushing us further away from democracy and closer to an apparently preferred conservative dictatorship. After the defeat of the disgraced former president I believed for a moment…
Read MoreFire Damages Offices In Antioch Sunday
Firefighters responding to reports of smoke and flames at a building in the 1100 block of Buchanan Road in Antioch arrived to find heavy smoke and flame coming from the structure. The fire was reported at 6 a.m. with initial indications that it started at an electrical box and moved into the building’s attic space.…
Read MoreSuspect Arrested In Rose Market Killing
The Benicia Police Department announced Saturday it has arrested a suspect in the killing of merchant Bahadur Singh, shot to death in Benicia’s Rose Market shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday. Officers working jointly with other agencies located and arrested Nyzell Marquis Dubusson, 21, in the 3600 block of Broadway in Oakland on Friday night. Dubusson…
Read MoreInjury Crash Closes Moraga Way Friday
A crash with reported injuries led to closure of Moraga Way at Los Cerros in Orinda Friday. The collision was reported at approximately 9:30 p.m. and was believed to have involved at least two vehicles. Two ambulances were reported to be on scene with no word on the nature or severity of injuries. Moraga Way…
Read MorePick-N-Pull Auto Dismantlers To Pay $2.5 Million For Environmental Violations
From the Office of the District Attorney: Martinez, Calif. – Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton announced today (Friday, March 11) that the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office, together with 13 other California District Attorneys have agreed to a $2.5 million dollar settlement with Pick-N-Pull over the company’s illegal disposal of hazardous waste…
Read MoreCon Fire – East Contra Costa County Fire Annexation Approved
From Con Fire: (Headline Supplied): Annexation Will Provide Improved Fire and Emergency Response Throughout the County, Particularly in East Contra Costa County MARTINEZ, CALIF., March 11, 2022 — On March 9, the Contra Costa County Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCo) unanimously approved the annexation of East Contra Costa Fire Protection District (ECCFPD) to the Contra…
Read MoreCounty Pays $4.5 Million Settlement For Hall-Wilson Shooting Case
County officials have agreed to pay $4.5 million to the family of a mentally ill homeless man shot and killed during a confrontation with a sheriff’s deputy in Danville in March, 2021. The settlement, reported Thursday by the Bay Area News Group, comes on the heels of Deputy Andrew Hall’s conviction for felony assault with…
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