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Donald Drive Robbery Update: Suspects Came Looking For Marijuana
From the Moraga Police Department: MORAGA, CA – On Sunday November 3, 2019, approximately 9:26 p.m., Moraga Police received a call reporting a possible burglary and robbery at a residence in the 100 block of Donald Drive. The suspects were described as 3-4 males, wearing hooded sweatshirts and were armed with baseball bats and at…
Read MoreFour Detained After Apparent Home Invasion-Style Attack In Moraga Sunday
Moraga police have stopped a vehicle with four men aboard at the Chevron station on Moraga Road at Moraga Way after reports of an attempted home-invasion-style robbery reached police from a residence on Donald Drive. The incident is still unfolding as Moraga police, supported by officers from adjacent agencies, cleared a car containing the men…
Read MoreAirbnb CEO Announces Company-Wide Ban On Party Houses; Promises Strict Enforcement
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced in a succession of tweets Saturday that the company would ban “party houses” and said the company “must do better, and we will” in preventing pop-up party scenarios from occurring in future. Chesky, referring directly to the Halloween Night mass shooting at an Airbnb rental in Orinda which left five people dead,…
Read MoreFifth Person Dies Of Wounds From Orinda Halloween Night Shooting
A fifth person – 19-year-old Oshiana Tompkins of Vallejo/Hercules – has died of wounds received during the Halloween Night shooting at an Orinda house party. Tompkins died overnight at a local hospital.
Read MoreSeveral People Shot, 4 Killed At Orinda Airbnb Halloween Party House
As many as ten persons appear to have been hit and seriously wounded after a suspect reportedly armed with a MAC10 machine pistol sprayed a home on Lucille Way in Orinda Thursday night. Four people are believed to have been killed. Police from all three Lamorinda agencies and beyond descended on the residence at around…
Read MoreLafayette Homeowner Loses Car, Hit On Head During Halloween Home Invasion Robbery
Lafayette police are searching for three armed men who reportedly came up behind a Martino Road resident, forced him into his home in a search for valuables and who fled in the homeowner’s BMW. The car was believed to have made it through the tunnel. Unconfirmed reports indicate the car may have been found abandoned…
Read MoreThe Readership Sounds Off: Praise For Firefighters; Not So Much For PG&E
We would like to add our voices to those expressing their gratitude to the men and women of our local fire services – all of whom demonstrated the utmost professionalism during our area’s recent fire storms. While we have always known there is a thin line between our daily lives and disaster our vulnerability was…
Read MoreAll Clear – The 24/680 Dodges A Fast-Moving Bullet – And Takes A Hot Shower To Celebrate
At times, when we were cobbling together our Internet and trying to file a story from the front seat of the Newsmobile while sirens wailed and air tankers roared in to deploy a pretty pink swath of Phos-Chek – we were tempted to say in our best radio baritone: “This… is Lamorinda.” Edward R. might…
Read MoreBusy Skies Over Lafayette Sunday
Lafayette resident Richard Usinger had a ringside seat for the aerial ballet played out in the skies over his city Sunday, air tankers of various sizes and description called in to help fight a devastating fire along Highway 24.
Read MoreThe New World Disorder: Survival In The Age Of Power Outages, Wildfires, Bad Information, And No Starbucks
Tens of thousands of good-hearted Californians, friends and neighbors, are getting a taste of what it’s like to be homeless, cut off and pushed around a little as another series of natural calamity descends upon us – compounded by some man-made calamity thrown in just to make things interesting. We spent our Friday talking to…
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