Posts Tagged ‘Calif.’
Lafayette Crossing Guard Dies Saving Children From Oncoming Car Wednesday
A volunteer crossing guard pushed children out of the path of an approaching car in front of Stanley Middle School in Lafayette Wednesday – taking the impact of the collision himself. His family identified the crossing guard as 45-year-old Ashley Dias, a Lafayette resident and product of both Stanley Middle and Acalanes High School who…
Read MoreSan Ramon Driver Arrested After Latest Car Vs. Bicycle Collision In Dublin Monday
A 56-year-old San Ramon man has been booked on suspicion of felony hit-and-run after allegedly striking a bicyclist with his car and leaving the scene Monday night. The incident occurred on Tassajara Road and Palisades in Dublin at around 7 p.m., officers tending to a seriously injured bicyclist they located at the scene and initiating…
Read MoreDanville Man Killed In Friday Night Crash On Camino Tassajara
Coroners officials Monday identified the man killed in a solo car crash on Camino Tassajara at Charbray late Friday night as Austin Nixon, 22, of Danville. Nixon died after his BMW struck a tree at that location, trapping him inside his car. He was eventually extricated and rushed to a local hospital where he was…
Read MoreMorning Crash On Moraga Road Knocks Out Power, Prompts Road Closures Thursday
Police shut down Moraga Road at Ascot Drive Thursday morning after a rollover crash damaged a pole, knocked out power to the area briefly and left the driver with moderate injuries. Tom Grayson, in the area at the time, said the driver of a Honda Accord lost control of the car and sped up a…
Read MoreInvestigation Into Fatal Solo Vehicle Collision After Suspect Flees from Deputy Sheriff
From the Office of the Sheriff: This morning at about 12:01, a Deputy Sheriff initiated a traffic enforcement stop on a gold-colored Lexus in the area of San Pablo Dam Road and Mifflin Avenue in El Sobrante. The Lexus ran a red light and went through the intersection of San Pablo Dam Road and El…
Read MoreEmployee Of Walnut Creek School Arrested – Multiple Felony Counts Of Child Molestation
Detectives from the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff Investigation Division have arrested 71-year-old Enrique Pina of Walnut Creek for numerous felony counts of child molestation, a sheriff’s office spokesman said in a written announcement. Investigators following up on a report of the molestation of a minor child were able to confirm the victim’s…
Read MoreStories That Go “Poof”: Chasing The Who, The What, And The Ever-Elusive Why
People who practice our trade know all too well that despite public impression none of the hundred or so tales that come to us over the course of a month ever arrive whole and in a neatly tied bow. Stories, we have all been told in English 101, have a beginning, a middle, and an…
Read MoreWalnut Creek T-Mobile Store Held Up Sunday; PD Searching For Suspect
A lone gunman robbed the T-Mobile store in the 2300 block of Oak Grove Road Sunday, apparently making off with cash and a bag of electronics. Police are maneuvering in their search for the suspect. He is described as a white or Hispanic male wearing a black hoodie, black pants, sunglasses and mask. He was…
Read MorePleasanton Police Investigating In-Custody Death
On Wednesday, August 1, at approximately 2:42 p.m., Pleasanton Police patrol officers were dispatched to 5420 Sunol Blvd. regarding a disturbance inside the Raley’s grocery store. Police said a manager from the store called police after observing a white male adult in his thirties acting irrationally, picking up a shopping cart and slamming it to…
Read MoreCounty Work Crews Preparing To Dig Into Pleasant Hill Road
Contra Costa County Public Works will perform roadwork on Pleasant Hill Road approximately 300 feet north of the intersection of Rancho View Drive on Thursday, June 14 and Friday, June 15, weather permitting, to replace the center-divide crash cushion system. Traffic will be controlled with temporary single-lane closures reducing the two lanes to a single lane…
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