Look What Crept In On Little Cat Feet…
Fog: … a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth’s surface. Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions. And it’s here. The Weather Service people…
You Meet The Finest People After A 3.8 Quake
We’re down, the animals stirring and trying to keep warm, REM sleep still far the road – when WHAMMO, a 3.6 Shaker rolls through the East Bay, the 24/680 and… our bed. We go into survival mode, peel the cat claws out of our hide, and take stock – popping onto our Facebook page to…
Car Burglars Wreak Havoc In The 24/680 Friday
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and car burglars are thankful for any early presents left behind in vulnerable cars – particularly if the item is a nice, juicy laptop or other electronic device. There are multiple reports of at least two sets of thieves at work, making frequent and repeated hits in…
Frost On Our Punkins – And Spidey In Lafayette?
We’re out and about in the 24/680, staving off frostbite and a rising bile as our national paroxysm plays out and we hunt for a local story to keep our mind off things. If we were to give you The Bullet – the quick and dirty brief we’d give an impatient desk editor tapping his…
Tracker Cracks Stolen Tools Case In Walnut Creek Monday
Monday turned out to be a busy night for crime and the people tasked with keeping a lid on it, police tracking a carload of stolen tools in Walnut Creek and a pair of suspected car thieves in Orinda. Arrests were made in both cases though the custody status of those detained remains unknown. Two…
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas – For Thieves
Christmas is ramping up in the 24/680 and as fresh trees go up in our living rooms and shoppers scurry to and fro another segment of society emerges – apparently to rip off the to and fro people. Pleasant Hill PD managed to corral two of three women allegedly trying to make off with several…
“Take Me Off Your List!”
We’ll spare you the military references but there’s a popular series out depicting a small squad action against a larger, entrenched force where the attackers use surprise to their advantage. “Look,” the squad leader shouts over the crescendo of a firefight. “We must be doing something right, they’re firing on each other…” That resonated this…
Tree Eats Cars In Pleasant Hill
Residents in the 400 block of Roberta Avenue in Pleasant Hill thought they were hearing lightning when cracking noises outside their homes brought them outside on the run Saturday. A tree, estimated to be at 80 feet tall, came down and caused “significant” damage to at least two cars and other property. No one was…
“Stay Frosty…”
Our military friends have all these worldly, uniquely applicable sayings they use on us “civilians” from time to time. One they are fond of is “Stay Frosty” – and while that may seem pertinent given today’s weather outlook, it carries a different meaning. To them, it means to stay keen – alert to what’s coming…
A Day Of Rescues, Runners – Busy Saturday In The 24/680
Some days, well, some days are just different. We were thinking that maybe, just maybe, folks would be mellow and standing down a little after The Big Feast but, no, it was not to be. News24/680 Newsies were kept busy running to and fro, from one scene to another, each seemingly nuttier than the last.…