Car Belonging To Missing Teen Found In Alameda Creek; Recovery Operation Underway
Swift water rescue experts and divers reached the battered car belonging to a Tracy teen missing since a car accident sent the vehicle plunging into raging Alameda Creek Saturday. Divers found Jayda Jenkins’ upended Honda Accord far downstream from where a witness said he saw it go into the water shortly after the accident Saturday.…
Thousands Gather For Women’s March In Walnut Creek Saturday
Thousands of women from as far away as Sacramento joined others in cities and towns across the country in a nationwide demonstration of dissatisfaction with the nation’s pick for its president – filling Walnut Creek’s Civic Park. A few medical incidents were reported, with people in the crowd helping those afflicted until first responders could reach…
Moraga Man Dead After Domestic Confrontation Goes Wrong Sunday
Police found a Moraga man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound early Sunday after an armed confrontation at a Lafayette home earlier in the evening touched off a widespread but initially futile search involving police helicopter and canine units. Neighbors reported seeing a heavily armed police presence outside a Moraga home around 1 a.m. Sunday,…
Orindans Help Florida Beating Victim Return Home
Almost a year after he suffered a traumatic brain injury during a fight outside an Orinda house party, Michael Jerrido has returned to his home in Largo, Fla. – largely due to donations from residents of the town where he was injured. Jerrido, a football player attending Chabot College in Hayward, was part of a…
Danville Man Dies After Pleasant Hill Freeway Crash
A Danville man died after his pickup truck left Highway 680 at around 8:58 a.m. Tuesday, striking two other cars before eventually coming to rest partially inside an unoccupied home. The 77-year-old victim was unconscious and unresponsive inside his white Ford F-250 when bystanders and first responders reached him, according to the CHP. In the initial…
Friends, Students Mourn Loss Of Lafayette Teacher Killed In Berkeley Double Stabbing
Friends of Lafayette’s Sienna Ranch were reeling Sunday night with the news that a popular local teacher had been killed during an apparent knife attack in Berkeley Friday. Berkeley police have yet to officially identify the young woman found dead in an Ashby Avenue home but a notice issued by Sienna Ranch over the weekend confirmed that…
Woman Killed By Falling Tree At Canyon Lakes Golf Course Saturday
A 56-year-old woman severely injured when she was struck on the head by a falling tree limb at the Canyon Lakes Golf Course Saturday morning has died of her injuries, according to police. The incident was reported at approximately 10:50 a.m. on the 7th hole of the golf course, the woman’s husband reporting that his…
Walnut Creek PD, U.S. Postal Inspectors Arrest Three Pittsburg Residents – Multiple Charges
Walnut Creek Police and U.S. Postal Inspectors are investigating the recent activity of three Pittsburg residents arrested Thursday as they were seen leaving a residence under surveillance by officers. Walnut Creek Police Officers were surveilling a residence in the 200 block of West Buchanan Road at approximately 4:20 p.m. in an attempt to serve an…
Thief Robs San Ramon Bank Of The West Branch Thursday; Escapes In Prius – Yes, A Prius
NEWS24/680 was able to provide the play-by-play account of a morning bank robbery and ensuing chase down I-680 Thursday, an incident marked by apparent public disbelief in the suspect’s choice of getaway car – a Toyota Prius. Despite the lightheartedness, it was all business for San Ramon police when news that the Bank of the West branch in the…
Calm Before The Storm – NEWS24/680 Aviatrix Trixie Goodheart Gets In A Little Air Time
Greetings and Salutations Groundhogs! It’s me, Trixie, at the stick of the NEWS24/680 Sopwith and doing a little open cockpit flying over the former ranch land where our two major freeways link up before the skies close in and go dark on us yet again. It’s gorgeous up here. I’m at 4,000 ftAGL (that’s Above…