WALNUT CREEK: Police Officer Resigns, Pleads No Contest To Baseball Bat Attack
A serving Walnut Creek police officer resigned days before he entered a no contest plea to assault and vandalism charges stemming from an early morning baseball bat assault on a woman he felt was vandalizing a family property in Richmond.
WALNUT CREEK: City Officer Arrested For Richmond Assault
A Walnut Creek police officer remains on paid administrative leave this week after allegedly assaulting a woman with a bat in Richmond Aug. 16. Officer Gregory Thompson, 53, of Martinez, was arrested in Richmond after witnesses called police to report a masked man assaulting a woman there.
DANVILLE: Local Math Teacher Arrested On Child Porn Charges
A 58-year-old middle school mathematics teacher was arrested early Friday after police served a search warrant at his home in an unincorporated part of town. Mitchell Wolf, a teacher at Diablo Vista Middle School, is currently in custody on charges of possessing child pornography.
WALNUT CREEK: Three Arrested For Nightclub Drug Sales
Three people have been arrested for allegedly selling cocaine at downtown Walnut Creek restaurants, bars, and nightclubs, police announced Wednesday.
MORAGA: School District Pays Up For Predatory Teachers
Tiny Moraga, proud of its schools and the achievements of its students, now also has the dubious distinction of paying out a record $14 million settlement to former students who were preyed on sexually for years while district officials looked away.
Terraces Lite – What’s Not To Like?
Almost from the moment it was proposed the Terraces of Lafayette project came out swinging, with lawyers and developers expressing a willingness to bludgeon the city into submission and push the project through.
The Case Of The Quick-Changing Contractor – What Really Happened On Lucas Court?
One of the strangest cases to cross the police blotters in Lamorinda in recent years will be played out in a Martinez courtroom.
Terraces Design Described As “Train Wreck Architecture,” Design Review Suggests “Alternatives”
If the developers behind Lafayette’s largest apartment project expected a warm and fuzzy reception at Monday night’s Design Review Commission meeting, they didn’t get it. Despite assurances of LEED Silver certifications and rosy predictions of enhanced traffic flow in one of the city’s busiest locales, backers of the Terraces of Lafayette project were blistered by…
Rare Four-Alarm Grass Fire Prompts Huge Response In Orinda
A smokey, wind-whipped grass fire flared up on the ridgelands overlooking Ivy and Descanso drives in Orinda shortly after 1 p.m. Monday, prompting a rare Four-Alarm response and a massive turnout by area firefighters.
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