Wet Roads And Overnight Police Action Gum Up The 24/680 Thursday
This rainfall – which by all reports will be with us for a while – is great for our gardens but it’s playing hell with our roadways. If you’re on one, we don’t have to tell you it’s pretty slidy out there and people are crashing into things. Eastbound Highway 24 was crawling through Orinda…
Orinda BevMo Robbed Saturday
Latest in a series of uncharacteristically violent thefts to shock Lamorinda was recorded Saturday as thieves struck at the Orinda Beverages and More store at 6 Camino Pablo in Orinda. Members of this site’s Flash Alert network reported police activity at the store at around noon, with reports the thieves left the scene in a…
Robbery Crew Blitzes Lafayette’s Panache Cafe
A crew of thieves raided the popular Panache Cafe in Lafayette at approximately 5 a.m. Thursday while the owner took refuge inside her store armed with a baseball bat, the thieves wrenching a safe off its base and making off with money and other items despite triggering a business alarm. News of the blitz-style robbery,…
Serial School Trespasser/Burglar Arrested After String Of On-Campus Thefts
A “prolific thief” suspected of cruising Bay Area schools in search of teachers’ credit cards was arrested following his incursion at a Fremont elementary school and linked to similar cases in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Solano and Yolo counties. Police identified their suspect as Christopher Britton, 34, of Fairfield and said he routinely walked onto…
Injury Crash At 24/680 Interchange Early Thursday
Six-car pileup at our namesake interchange overnight (with injury) continues our streak of crashes in the area. This one was reported at around 3 a.m.
Walnut Creek Ready To Ban Satan’s Whistles
While your local Mo-and-Blo crew has been blowing sticky wet leaves down the road, past your window and under your front door at runway sound levels for the past decade or so it appears Walnut Creek is ready to look at alternatives – after we get through the current Winter Leaf Drop, at least. Local…
“The Bear Roared” – Californians Pass Prop 50
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s gamble on a risky proposition countering a presidential decree to gerrymander Texas congressional districts paid off with a landslide win in California Tuesday night. Voters approved Proposition 50, a ballot measure reconfiguring the state’s U.S. House map temporarily in response to Republican gerrymandering efforts in other states. The approved measure will set…
San Francisco Sexual Assault Suspect Arrested In Pleasant Hill
Police working the disturbing case of a sexual assault on a child in a public restroom at Golden Gate Park last week announced the arrest of a suspect Thursday in Pleasant Hill. Few details of the arrest were forthcoming, though San Francisco police said the 19-year-old suspect – a resident of San Francisco – was…
Twenty Four Six Eighty SitRep – Halloween Edition
We’re hunkered down deep in the News Bunker, channeling our inner Better Crocker because sometimes you just have to make fresh blueberry muffies to go with the Morning Coffee Jolt. Frankly, we’re brushing up on some basic survival cooking skills as tales of job layoffs and on-the-job stress and general angst levels reach us even…
Sheriff Investigating Release Of Homicide Suspect From County Jail
Sheriff’s investigators are looking into the release of a man wanted for a murder in Washington state and jailed in Martinez Oct. 18 following a pursuit by officers from the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments. The Office of the Sheriff reported Monday it is actively investigating the release of 20-year-old Isaiah Jamon Andrews of Kent,…