Sunday Percolator: Boutonnieres, Burglars, Bad Boys And Firebugs
Lovely weather for the weekend as we slide into post-prom Sunday morning, some local kids floating down to breakfast with stars in their eyes after a night out with classmates and romantic interests. If we squint real hard we can almost remember those nights ourselves. Hope you had as much fun as we did back…
Suspicious Fires Light Up Martinez Saturday
A series of fires apparently set along southbound I680 at Pacheco Boulevard early Saturday brought firefighters on the run and left investigators looking for a cause. Several patches of roadside grass were reported burning at approximately 12:35 a.m = with an additional blaze in the area of Nardi Lane briefly sparking concern that the fires…
Arrests Made In Livermore Murder Case
Livermore police announced the arrest of a 17-year-old murder suspect as well as the arrest of an adult relative suspected of helping him elude police. Police officials, in an announcement posted to their Facebook page, said that the principal suspect was arrested with the assistance of Hayward police on Tuesday, April 26 at a Super…
Retail Thieves Pay Return Visit To Sun Valley Mall Thursday
Customer loyalty is a trait most businesses do their best to foster, but the people at Sunglass Hut in Concord’s Sun Valley Mall would like to see four of their most loyal customers go away forever. Four men suspected of stealing $30,000 worth of goods from the store shortly before noon today are believed to…
Tensions High At Area Schools; Fights, Online Threats, Weapon Recovered
As if kids today didn’t have enough to worry about. Instances of student-on-student aggression, online threats, fighting and – on April 21 – the confiscation of a pistol from a student at Ygnacio Valley High in Concord have made the 2022 school year an especially hard one for students. In emails to parents, school districts…
Motorcyclist Killed In Concord Crash Sunday
A 32-year-old man aboard a motorcycle on Ygnacio Valley between Crystyl Ranch Drive and Cowell roads was killed early Sunday in a collision with a car driven by a juvenile male, a passing ambulance crew coming across the scene at about 1:20 a.m. Police arrived to investigate the cause of the collision shortly after it…
Overnight Chase Winds Through Lafayette; Ends With Crash In Orinda
A twisting, often wrong-way pursuit over rain slickened streets made its way through a good portion of Lafayette early Thursday before the object of police attention – a white work van – crashed at 16 E. Altarinda Drive in Orinda. The chase kicked off shortly after 2 a.m. when the van was spotted by a…
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”…