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One Dead, Electric Vehicle Burning In Walnut Creek Saturday
UPDATE: The lone fatality in this case was identified by friends and family as Alina Safi, 16, a student at Mt. Diablo High School in Concord. A 16-year-old girl was killed and five others suffered significant injuries in a grinding collision at Ygnacio Valley Road east of Oak Grove with one of three vehicles –…
Read MoreAir/Ground Pursuit Winds Through Lamorinda, Ends With Oakland Crash Friday
Our Flashers know about a circuitous pursuit through Lamorinda earlier this evening, air and ground units pursuing an evasively minded Toyota back through the Caldecott and into Oakland – where the two occupants abandoned the vehicle at 57th and Vicente and fled on foot. Two juveniles were ultimately taken into custody on various charges after…
Read MoreDanville Launches ‘Not My Kid’ E-Bike Safety Campaign For Families
Campaign includes information and tools in one location, in response to resident concerns. From the Town of Danville: DANVILLE, Calif. (August 8, 2025): The Town of Danville has launched “Not My Kid,” a comprehensive e-bike safety campaign aimed at helping families understand the rules, risks, and responsibilities of youth e-bike use. With e-bikes capable of…
Read MoreMan Beaten, Robbed Outside Rossmoor Safeway Thursday
Witnesses reported a man down and bloodied outside the Rossmoor Safeway store in the 1900 block of Tice Valley Boulevard after he was assaulted by a carload of young men wearing hoodies. The trio left their victim and escaped in an older model red sedan, Walnut Creek police quickly flooding the area to render aid…
Read MoreFireball Draws A Crowd On Eastbound Highway 24 Wednesday
A KIA caught fire and burned on the eastbound Highway 24 overpass to Mount Diablo Road just before 10 p.m. Wednesday, the resultant fireball drawing one of our photographers and, within minutes, a small crowd unused to seeing such things in Lafayette. The car’s occupant made it out before things got hot but the KIA…
Read More“Hugging Bandit” Strikes Again In San Ramon; Jewelry Taken
Police in San Ramon are investigating the theft of an expensive necklace taken when a stranger approached and hugged the older victim at around 9:35a.m., unfastening the jewelry and fleeing in a waiting black sedan. The vehicle was last seen on Davona Drive heading toward Alcosta Boulevard. The victim, taken by surprise as so many…
Read More“It’s A Boy!” – Walnut Creek Firefighters Help Resolve Roadside Labor Issue Monday
Firefighters helped make a special delivery in Walnut Creek Monday after a woman reported she was in labor, her baby was on the way and the hospital was still blocks away. It took a bit but firefighters eventually found the car and woman in question pulled over in the 500 block of Ygnacio Valley Road…
Read MorePursuit/Crash On Highway 24 In Lafayette Ends With Arrest/Injuries
A vehicle fleeing police on westbound Highway 24 near Central Lafayette crashed into the center divide – its driver arrested at gunpoint – in a crash that brought westbound traffic to a near standstill for hours. Traffic immediately ground to a halt as firefighters and emergency responders clawed their way to the scene. The Highway…
Read More“Well, Well, Well… What Do We Have Here?”
It is said a successful street photographer is only as good as his or her instincts and that – we know – is exactly right. One of our Roving Lenses came across this little scene in Pleasant Hill last night and, at first, things shaped up to be a fairly routine car stop and search…
Read MoreKicking Abusive Teachers Down The Road Is Not A Solution
Dear Editor; I have followed with interest accounts of local teachers abusing the minors in their care who have been allowed to quietly resign only to cost their former school districts MILLIONS after successful lawsuits filed by their former students. Bay Area school districts have faced more than 50 sexual abuse lawsuits in recent years,…
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