Shamed Former Priest Arrested For Suspicion Of Vehicular Manslaughter After Fatal Rossmoor Collision
A former Oakland priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of children was arrested in Rossmoor Saturday night after his car jumped a curb and ran down a man and wife. Stephen Kiesle, 75, a former Oakland priest who served six years in prison after pleading no contest to molesting a minor girl in 1995, was…
Missing Kid, Drone Porn, Hot Ticket, And The Meat Market
Made it through the weekend, though it was touch-and-go at times. Let’s see (mumbling to ourselves as we leaf through notes we made at the time), it seems people are drinking heavily and running into things, check, and at times it appeared we were in the opening moments of M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Happening” as…
Juvenile Arrested For Murder On Johnson Drive In Concord Saturday
As we first mentioned in a Flash Alert issued at the time, a man was shot at the corner of Meadow Lane and Johnson Drive at approximately 9:53 a.m. Saturday morning, later dying of his wounds at a local hospital. Concord police, in a social media post Sunday, say they have identified a “juvenile suspect”…
24/680 Movie Trivia Answer: “Swim Team!”
And we have a winner… sort of! “St. Elsewhere Fan,” (why you folks don’t use your actual names baffles us but what the hey…) swims up to the answer of our local movie trivia question and backs into it. It is, of course, the universally acclaimed 1979 film epic “Swim Team,” a chip off the…
Walnut Creek’s Ashland Smoke Shop Robbed Thursday
Walnut Creek police are investigating a robbery of the Ashland Smoke Shop at 2931 N Main Street Thursday afternoon. Employees said the passenger of a blue Jeep Grand Cherokee or Wrangler left the vehicle and entered the business at 6:10 p.m., telling workers he was armed with a handgun though no weapon was seen. The…
Sideshows Warming Up – Gunshots And Donuts
The traditional weekend cruising event for which some local cities became known appear to have given way to noisier, smellier, more mobile automotive happenings liable to pop up anywhere, draw dozens if not hundreds of participants and spell trouble for those who don’t appreciate the artsier elements of burning donuts in the middle of captive…
Car Fire Blocks Eastbound Highway 24 Onramp In Orinda Wednesday
A messy pickup truck fire closed the eastbound Highway 24 on-ramp from Bryant Way in Orinda Wednesday, police guesstimating the closure would be in effect until 12:15 p.m. The pickup was first spotted with flames visible on the undercarriage at about 10:25 a.m. The unidentified driver made it safely from the vehicle as it continued…
Winds Topple Bocce Shelters, Trees In The 24/680 Monday
A tree blocks the road after taking out a fence in the 4100 block of Rita Drive in the Vine Hill area of Martinez on Monday. At the Martinez Marina, bocce ball officials worked quickly to save shade structures after high winds tossed them around like parasols, snapping support poles like toothpicks. Trees were also…
Allergies, Anyone?
When our nasal passages started to bang shut like cell doors this week we panicked a little at first and then started asking around and, apparently, we’re not alone. We’ve never had any previous issues with allergies but this latest manifestation sure got our attention. The 24/680 is sort of Ground Zero for allergy sufferers,…