COSTCO Parking Lot Fight Leaves One Hospitalized Sunday
One man’s apparent impatience with the time another man was taking to vacate a parking space in a store parking lot led to a fight with one man in the hospital and another leaving the scene Sunday. The altercation was apparently captured by bystanders wielding cameras at the COSTCO location on Fostoria Way. It was…
Unusual “Double Leaner” Crash In Lafayette Friday
Two cars struck each other the wrong way on St. Mary’s Road and Acampo Drive a little before 4 p.m. Friday, resulting in an unusual tandem “leaner” crash with the two cars on their sides and one person trapped in the wreckage. Crews worked to free the trapped individual and three people were assessed for…
Local Crime: Seeking Justice, And It’s Not Always “Outsiders”
Things have been a little rough lately and we’re trying to give you all a little break with artsy photos of rainfall, pretty flowers and other worthwhile distractions but that doesn’t keep our alarm bells from going off. Our alarm bells are gentle tone alerts signifying incoming email or texts and it’s usually a good…
Weather, Other Factors Contribute To Local Crashes Tuesday
On a day of crashes: There was this one in Walnut Creek (12:23pm) on westbound Ygnacio at Oak Grove. One person was trapped in the wreckage, with crews successfully extricating that person at 12:39pm. Moderate injuries…
With Our New Reality, New Suspicions
Our subscribers are aware of recent, local skullduggeries, chronicled as they happen and intended to inform – not paralyze everyone with fear. We’re certainly not fearful, meeting very cool, very intelligent folks around the 24/680 every day. But stuff is happening we feel compelled to write about, as we believe forewarned is forearmed. Cervantes was…
Deep Thoughts, A Code 3 Night, And The Last Sleep
Tuesday unfolding like a Geisha’s fan, revealing itself to us a pleat at a time after a cycle of police pursuits and crashes. We’ll admit, we succumbed to yesterday’s temperature, sunshine and our musical playlist – pondering deep questions like: “who added cowbell to rock songs?” and: “what’s the better lyric – ‘my brain is…
Are Car Burglars/Cat Converter Thieves Escalating The Local Arms Race?
We’ve mentioned an apparent shift in the local crime scene, with car burglars, jackers, and Catalytic Converter rustlers increasingly well-armed while plying their chosen trade. We do have a photo of one crew at work, a member under a car and working on the converter while another member provides “security” – covering the front door…
Monday, Monday – Can’t Trust That Day
Hoping the Mamas and Dudes would allow us a spartan titular use of their lyrics (even though our younger readers are scratching their heads, again, and wondering what we’re “babbling about” this time). So, GOOGLE REFERENCE: Mamas & the Papas Origins: Los Angeles, by way of other Hippie Hotspots History: Four people who released five…
“All Cars” Call In Walnut Creek; “Don’t Hit The Bunny” And Vandals At Work
NEWS24/680 crew members shook off the mildew and mold accrued over the last month and took to the streets Saturday in search of a good story and an exotic cocktail with one of those little parasol umbrellas sticking out of it. The team was feeling all warm and convivial (two of our number home catching…
Comes The Dawn – Finally
Those of you up with us in the “Wheeee! Hours” are up or catching up with the night’s events. Our Flash Master was sending out Flash Alerts in record number after a man allegedly broke into a home on Roxanne Lane in Lafayette and confronted one or more persons inside, arming himself with a kitchen…