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Flash UPDATE: Major Injury Crash In Concord Saturday
We put this crash out when we first heard of it but it appears the driver in this instance suffered major injuries – whether as a result of the crash or perhaps prior to it we don’t know at this time. Neighbors reported the sound of a crash at Mohr Lane and Nuala Street at…
Read MoreNot TactiCool – 24/680 People Fed Up With Paintball/Airsoft “Drive-bys”
When did it become fun to load up your buds in Mom and Dad’s un-Tesla and drive around looking to pop unsuspecting elders, bag-hampered shoppers, and others generally not like you with guns designed to shoot balls or beads great distances? Some have suggested the current “prank” leaving welts on unsuspecting victims is an offshoot…
Read MoreLongbrook 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…
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