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Walnut Creek Ready To Ban Satan’s Whistles
While your local Mo-and-Blo crew has been blowing sticky wet leaves down the road, past your window and under your front door at runway sound levels for the past decade or so it appears Walnut Creek is ready to look at alternatives – after we get through the current Winter Leaf Drop, at least. Local…
Read More“The Bear Roared” – Californians Pass Prop 50
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gamble on a risky proposition countering a presidential decree to gerrymander Texas congressional districts paid off with a landslide win in California Tuesday night. Voters approved Proposition 50, a ballot measure reconfiguring the state’s U.S. House map temporarily in response to Republican gerrymandering efforts in other states. The approved measure will set…
Read More“Rope Tricks”
Gent, believed to be unhoused, got into some trouble in a culvert near Treat and Sheppard in Walnut Creek this morning and a whole buncha folks with muscles and ropes came to get him out…
Read MoreSan Francisco Sexual Assault Suspect Arrested In Pleasant Hill
Police working the disturbing case of a sexual assault on a child in a public restroom at Golden Gate Park last week announced the arrest of a suspect Thursday in Pleasant Hill. Few details of the arrest were forthcoming, though San Francisco police said the 19-year-old suspect – a resident of San Francisco – was…
Read MoreCar Fire Snarls Traffic In Lafayette Thursday
A car caught fire at Quandt and Pleasant Hill Road in Lafayette Thursday evening and our Flash Alert system swung into action with alerts going to readers and photos flooding in! Flashers were quick to report the flames and that arriving firefighters quickly knocked down the blaze but by then the damage was done and…
Read MoreJury Finds Aggravating Factors True In Former Teacher’s Sex Crime Conviction
Martinez, California – A Contra Costa County jury today (Wednesday) found that aggravating circumstances applied in the case of Nicholas Brandon Moseby, a former middle school teacher previously convicted of sex crimes against minors. The 44-year-old Concord man was found guilty on October 17th, 2025, following the first phase of his bifurcated trial. The convictions…
Read MoreTwenty Four Six Eighty SitRep – Halloween Edition
We’re hunkered down deep in the News Bunker, channeling our inner Better Crocker because sometimes you just have to make fresh blueberry muffies to go with the Morning Coffee Jolt. Frankly, we’re brushing up on some basic survival cooking skills as tales of job layoffs and on-the-job stress and general angst levels reach us even…
Read MoreSheriff Investigating Release Of Homicide Suspect From County Jail
Sheriff’s investigators are looking into the release of a man wanted for a murder in Washington state and jailed in Martinez Oct. 18 following a pursuit by officers from the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments. The Office of the Sheriff reported Monday it is actively investigating the release of 20-year-old Isaiah Jamon Andrews of Kent,…
Read MoreComplicated Rescue After Rossmoor Crash Saturday
Complicated extrication in Rossmoor late Saturday after a driver dialed for help after crashing her car through a bus bench and some other infrastructure before tumbling down an embankment onto the 2100 block of Golden Rain Road. The crash was reported at approximately 11:20p.m. and brought many residents out for a look after the car…
Read MoreDublin Couple Held On Suspicion Of Gunning Down Condor Club Manager
A Dublin couple – Richard Lund and Asia Morton – have been arrested in connection with the murder of Mark Calcagni, general manager San Francisco’s famed Condor Club, who was gunned down outside his home in Santa Rosa Oct. 3. Police in Santa Rosa said the couple are former employees of an adult entertainment club…
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