County 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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Police Pursue Suspect Vehicle From El Sobrante Into Lafayette Wednesday

Lamorinda police and neighboring agencies are currently tracking a vehicle which fled from police on San Pablo Dam Road, drove east in the westbound lanes of Highway 24 through Orinda and is now on Sessions Road in Lafayette. A helicopter, believed to be a sheriff’s aircraft, is orbiting the area of Sessions Road and Northridge.…

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Chow, Baby – Lafayette Hotspot Loses Its Safe To Burglars

Lafayette police have had a pretty good run of luck of late, recently citing sharp declines in residential burglaries and other crime stats that normally turn a police officer’s hair prematurely grey. But during the lull it seems the inmates were quietly digging. It wasn’t a “tunnel job,” the thieves excavating a shaft to their…

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Driver Killed After Olympic Blvd. Crash Sunday; Wife Injured

A single-car crash reported on our Facebook page as it happened Sunday morning ended tragically after the driver was pronounced dead of his injuries at John Muir Medical Center – his wife left hospitalized with serious injuries. The crash occurred at 10:44 a.m. when the couple’s Honda CRV drifted inexplicably off Olympic Boulevard as it…

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