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.
Moraga School District Settles Claim By Abuse Survivor
The Moraga School District will pay one of its former students $2.85 million in compensation for years of abuse by two district teachers – one of whom is dead, the other in prison. District officials announced the settlement agreement at their meeting Tuesday night.
Tuesday’s Officer-Involved Shooting First In City Since 1992
Tuesday’s harrowing encounter between police officers and a local man who approached them with a blunt object in hand became the first officer-involved shooting incident in the city since 1992, when a female officer fired on a suspected rapist – wounding him in the shoulder.
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