Young Entrepreneurs Gearing Up For 2025 Shark Tank Competition
Campolindo High School’s Entrepreneurship Club organizes second annual competition MORAGA, CALIFORNIA – January 27, 2025 – The Contra Costa Shark Tank Youth Competition (www.contracostasharktank.org) is back for a second year after a successful inaugural competition in 2024 where over 300 students applied. The Campolindo High School Entrepreneurship Club is organizing the competition as a fun…
Driver Killed In Pleasant Hill Rollover Crash Monday
A 2-car crash on Grayson Road at Taylor Boulevard ended with one person dead and another with minor injuries in Pleasant Hill on Monday. The rollover crash was reported at 9:42 a.m. with motorists describing a black Kia sedan and a Kia minivan involved with the minivan rolling onto its side, a person on the…
Gunfire Keeps Concord Neighborhoods On Edge Saturday
Concord residents contacting this site are expressing concern over what they say is an increased level of gunfire – ostensibly between rival gang factions – taking place in the city over the last 24 hours. Neighbors noted rifle and pistol fire at Cambridge Park on Victory Lane at approximately 9 p.m. Friday, followed by reports…
Bicyclist Killed In Early-Morning Walnut Creek Crash
A lone cyclist was struck and killed by a car in the 1800 block of N. Main Street in Walnut Creek early Wednesday morning – the driver remaining on the scene and believed to be cooperating with authorities. Neighbors reported hearing the sound of an impact at about 5:43 a.m. and saw the man down…
Truck Owner Dials Up Police From Bed Of His Stolen Pickup
Very fresh and still unraveling but various law enforcement agencies have stopped a Ford F150 pickup truck on High Eagle Road in Alamo – after the truck owner called to report his truck had been hijacked with him still in the truckbed. Police are currently in the 200 block of High Eagle with the reportedly…
Mean Old Streets
Don’t tell our photographers but while they were out keeping the lid on things and capturing the fisticuffs, pathos, and whimsical nature of life in the 24/680 (The Numbers) – we were nodding off. Yes, it’s true. The week caught up with us and our cumulative 6.2 hours of slumber proved insufficient as someone crept…
Whoopsie Moment Ends With Head-Scratcher Crash In Orinda Thursday
Photos from the scene in Orinda after a car with two aboard flipped rode a fence line separating businesses at 2 Camino Sobrante, tipped off the fence and wedged itself between a line of parked cars and the concrete abutment. Took a bit for crews to free the occupants, who were shaken but okay. Appears…
Armed Robbery Crew Strikes In Martinez Wednesday; Rolex, Electronics Taken
Five heavily armed men robbed a resident on Center Avenue in Martinez on Wednesday, making off with a Rolex watch, phones and other items before escaping onto Highway 4. The incident was reported at approximately 10 p.m. The carload of suspects were preliminarily described as black males – each masked, wearing hoodies and armed with…
ScreenShots: “The Queen’s Gambit” Makes All The Right Moves
In our search for great story lines and characters we rediscovered Beth Harmon and a glorious gallery of mental gymnasts with minds like computers and raging compulsion issues – served up courtesy of Netflix’s captivating series “The Queen’s Gambit.” Our very patient literary agent once told us: “Find a female character, write her well, put…
Shopper Punched, Robbed In Walnut Creek Sunday – Passersby Pitch In To Help
A woman was punched and her bag snatched by a teen who ran up behind her outside the Broadway Plaza parking garage at 715 S. Broadway Sunday – witnesses reacting quickly to recover the bag though the juvenile suspect was able to get away. The shopper was making her way back to her car when…