Lafayette Mayor Addresses Ongoing Battle Of The El Curtola Overpass
From the City of Lafayette: The Lafayette City Council and I have closely followed recent events at the El Curtola overpass, which crosses Highway 24 in Lafayette. Our first priority is the safety of our City’s residents and we have been concerned by reports of violence and intimidation on the overpass. The Lafayette Police Department,…
License Plate Readers, LoJack’s A’ Poppin’ Wednesday; Alleged Thieves Try On Cuffs In Danville, Lafayette
Anyone doubting the power of technology need only have been on city streets Wednesday as the area’s Automated License Plate Readers and LoJack systems kicked in with a vengeance. The devices send signals to monitoring agencies whenever an equipped or registered vehicle passes an ALPR site – relaying the target vehicle’s position to interested law…
Woman Dies In Concord House Fire Monday; Investigation Points To Electrical Malfunction
An 84-year-old Concord woman was found dead in her home Monday after neighbors reported adjacent landscaping on fire and a police officer arrived to find the home engulfed in flame. The fire gutted the single story home in the 3500 block of Hillsborough Drive. The neighbors reported the fire at around 6:30 a.m. after they…
Sheriff’s Office Investigating Murder In Tara Hills Sunday
Deputy Sheriff’s dispatched to a report of shots fired at an apartment complex at San Pablo Avenue and Crestwood Drive in the Tara Hills neighborhood of West Contra Costa County at about 12:39 p.m. on Sunday arrived to find a man with a gunshot wound in a nearby car. Deputies began life-saving measures on the…
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…
Fatal Crash Closes I680 In San Ramon Sunday
Two people died and two others were injured in a fiery collision on southbound Interstate 680 in San Ramon early Sunday. Investigators said a Volkswagen Jetta traveling south on I-680 north of Alcosta Boulevard went off the roadway, crossing all lanes before swerving back and colliding with the center median. The incapacitated Jetta was struck…
Reps. DeSaulnier And Swalwell Escorted From Capitol As Trump Backers Storm Building
Two local lawmakers were whisked off the House floor and escorted to a safe location after an extraordinary demonstration of allegiance to a departing president ended with a violent assault on the Nation’s capitol. Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Livermore) and Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) were caught up in the events of an ugly day in Washington in…
Police Identify San Ramon Shooting Suspect – Ask For Help Locating Him
San Ramon police investigators Tuesday identified their suspect in a New Year’s Eve shooting incident in the 100 block of Amberstone Lane. Police said the victim, who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, is currently in stable condition. Police identified the suspect as 19-year-old San Ramon resident Terence “Terene” Brown and said he is…
Car-To-Car Shooting Under Investigation In Pleasanton; Two Teens Hit
Two East Bay teens were struck and wounded by gunfire in an apparently targeted car-to-car attack in the area of Stoneridge and Gibraltar Drive in Pleasanton late Saturday night. In a prepared release, police said they received calls from residents reporting the sounds of gunfire in that area at approximately 11 p.m. As officers searched…
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…