Subject Of Two-Day Police Search Uses Stolen Car To Ram Sheriff’s Car In Lafayette
Lafayette police and Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputies following a stolen car in Burton Valley got a rude response Thursday when the driver rammed a trailing sheriff’s car in his bid to escape. The man, whose name is being withheld by this site for the time being, appeared to have eluded police for the second…
Moraga School District Settles Claim By Abuse Survivor
The Moraga School District will pay one of its former students $2.85 million in compensation for years of abuse by two district teachers – one of whom is dead, the other in prison. District officials announced the settlement agreement at their meeting Tuesday night.
Tuesday’s Officer-Involved Shooting First In City Since 1992
Tuesday’s harrowing encounter between police officers and a local man who approached them with a blunt object in hand became the first officer-involved shooting incident in the city since 1992, when a female officer fired on a suspected rapist – wounding him in the shoulder.