It’s The Beav! Ailing Critter Heals At Lindsay Wildlife, Enjoys Tail-Slapping Welcome Home
The good folks at Lindsay Wildlife Experience in Walnut Creek took in a storm-battered, plastic-ingesting beaver found a little the worse for wear at Joe Henderson Elementary in Benicia earlier this month, nursed him back to health and celebrated his return to his lodge Thursday. The 50-pound critter was released back into the open space…
Spike In Broken Car Windows Along Highway 24 In Lafayette; CHP Looking For Cause
There are a number of things that can cause automotive glass to shatter spontaneously and when it happens many shocked drivers usually fear the worst – that they have been shot at or someone has thrown something at their car. A recent spike in the number of cases involving shattered windows along Highway 24 in…
Sheriff’s Investigators, FBI Working With Orinda PD To Recover Weapon Stolen From Agent’s Car
Detectives from the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff Investigation Division are working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Orinda police after an MP5 semi-automatic rifle, ammunition, and a police vest were stolen from an agent’s car. Investigators said the 10 mm rifle was lawfully stored in the vehicle. Anyone with any information…
One Arrested, One Hospitalized After Foot Chase In Danville Monday
Officers in Danville spotted a car listed as stolen at the Railroad Avenue parking lot in town Monday and attempted to contact two people as they returned to the car with unintended results, according to spokesman Geoff Gillette. The incident kicked off at approximately 1:10 p.m. Monday as officers were alerted to a stolen Nissan Sentra via…
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…