Hard Start On Our Roads Sunday; “Full Turtle” Sighted In Concord
Sunday drivers are finding it tough going out there today, with a series of crashes playing havoc with motorists and traffic patterns disrupted – all before noon. Interstate 680 was particularly hard hit with a fiery, early-morning crash taking at least one life in San Ramon at 3:30 a.m. and a second rollover crash in…
New Year’s First San Ramonian Arrives – Ready To Play
The folks at San Ramon Regional Medical Center documented the city’s First Arrival of the New Year – sharing a photo of Baby Bosco, a six pound bouncing baby boy child who joined the Human Race at 8:29 a.m. Parents Monica and Jude of San Ramon welcomed their baby boy into the world and were…
Nurse Latest Victim Of Highway 242 Rock Throwing Incidents
An East Bay nurse has become the latest person struck by a rock deliberately thrown onto Highway 242 in Concord, a bizarre but apparently fairly commonplace occurrence that has already cost another woman her life. Pam Burnett, a labor and delivery nurse at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, was on her way to work Dec.…
A Newsy Christmas Morning
Christmas preparations on hold a bit this morning as we’ve been watching developments in Nashville and trying to wrap our minds around that incident – thinking that perhaps we’ve reached a new level of… something… in America. It remains to be seen what the perpetrators hoped to gain by this bombing. With that, and as…
Friday Outlook: Cold, With A Chance Of Car Burglary
Good Friday morning on what’s shaping up to be an Amy Winehouse-themed news day in the 24/680. We’re not quite sure how our newsroom jukebox finds its musical way in the mornings, but it’s all about Rehab and Waking Up Alone – in the bunker this morning. Folks are up and about and slamming into…
DNA Testing Links Moraga Coyote To Latest Lafayette Bite Incident
State Fish and Wildlife officials said DNA testing of animal saliva acquired after three recent coyote encounters in Moraga and Lafayette has revealed that a single animal was responsible for all three biting incidents. Lab results proved that a coyote was responsible for a bite delivered to a Diablo Foods store employee in Lafayette the…
Coyote Roaming Downtown Lafayette Tuesday; Unconfirmed Report Of A Person Bitten
Investigators with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife are once again turning to science to determine the DNA profile of a coyote that reportedly nipped a store employee in downtown Lafayette Tuesday night. Captain Patrick Foy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed many reports forwarded to this site of a coyote…
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Cleanup Continues In Walnut Creek
Weekend rains delayed ongoing efforts to remove gas that leaked from a Kinder Morgan fuel pipeline in Walnut Creek – the same pipeline and in the same area as a 2004 explosion that killed five. Area residents first reported the smell of fuel in the area late last month. Responding crews found that as much…
Wildlife Officials Link Lone Coyote To Two Moraga Attacks; Kill Three Others
State game wardens have determined that a lone coyote is responsible for two attacks on humans in Moraga, adding that a culling operation set into motion after the incidents has killed three other animals. Fish and Wildlife Capt. Patrick Foy told KCBS radio that a DNA comparison established that one coyote was responsible for recent…
Morning Pursuit – Morning Crash Keeps Things Busy In The 24/680 Wednesday
It was what we would call a “YeeHaw Morning” in the 24/680 this a.m. – with a pursuit coming to a stop and ending with a dog bite in Walnut Creek and a teetering truck crash on westbound Highway 24 in Lafayette to cap things off. We’re certain there have been other incidents (oh, there…