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Deadly Sunday On I-680: Fairfield Man Dies After Incident In Martinez

A 52-year-old Fairfield man became the second person to die during a rainy, crash-filled Sunday on Interstate 680 after his pickup truck struck the center divider north of Marina Vista in Martinez around 3:10 p.m. California Highway Patrol officers said the motorist was driving south on the freeway when his 1999 GMC pickup veered into the…

Big Sinkhole Big News In Little Moraga Sunday

UPDATE: Evacuations underway on Rheem Blvd. as sinkhole ruptures a major gas line. 6:35 p.m. There hasn’t been this much excitement in town since Mrs. McGillicutty found Mr. M cozied up with his secretary in the bar at Rheem Bowl. Yes, it’s really just a hole in the ground but Moraga’s latest landmark was doing a…

Moraga Man Dead After Crash-Filled Sunday On I-680

One person was killed in a flurry of isolated crashes – often reported just minutes apart – on I-680 from San Ramon to Alamo Sunday. The fatal accident, still being investigated and cleared as this is written (12:50 p.m.) was reported at 12:18 p.m. on southbound I-680 at the Sycamore Valley Road offramp and was…

Wet Wednesday Leaves One Dead; Commuters Fuming

A slippery day in the 24/680 led to a number of crashes across Central County – with a Martinez woman killed in a head-on accident early in the day and a series of crashes tying up traffic and elevating tempers as commuters slowed to a crawl California CHP investigators are looking into the cause of…

Martinez Woman Killed In Head-On Crash Wednesday

A 27-year-old Martinez woman was killed in a two-car, head-on crash in the intersection of Pacheco Blvd. and Arthur Rd. in Martinez early Wednesday. Tandiwe Myambo was traveling eastbound on Pacheco Boulevard around 5:30 a.m. when her Honda unexpectedly swerved into oncoming westbound traffic, hitting a Dodge pick-up. Myambo, who attended Diablo Valley College, was…

“Single Digit” License Plate Break Leads To Arrests, Tie To Lafayette Burglaries

Lafayette police, looking to solve a flurry of burglaries in their town Monday, were led to a suspect car believed used in the crimes by a citizen who remembered a single digit on a speeding car’s license plate. That lead enabled investigators canvassing the neighborhoods where the crimes occurred to pinpoint home surveillance video of a…

Knife-Wielding Robbers Take $700 Cash From Victim At Lafayette BART Station Saturday

A pair of robbers, one of them wielding a 6″-long knife, accosted a person at the Lafayette BART station at 4:21 p.m. Saturday – relieving their victims of $700 in cash. A BART police spokesman was reluctant to give too many details of the incident due to the fact that it was still fresh and…

Fatal Accident On Bollinger Canyon Road In San Ramon Saturday; Area Closed To Northbound Traffic

An accident reported at 12:04 p.m. in the northbound lanes of Bollinger Canyon Road between Harcourt Way and Watermill Rd. has left one person dead and the thoroughfare closed as San Ramon police investigate its cause. Passersby, at least one of them a physician, reported seeing a car into a tree at that location with a…

Car Fleeing Lafayette Police Officer Takes Evasive Action, Crashes Into Walnut Creek Building Wednesday

A speeding car attempting to evade a Lafayette police officer who had called off the chase minutes before, left the eastbound Highway 24 offramp at high speed Wednesday night and crashed through the rear of a building at 2300 Boulevard Circle – eventually landing on its roof in the basement of a building housing a…

Second Wave Of Backyard Burglars Target Homes In Lafayette Monday

For the second time in four days a hard-working burglar or crew of burglars has smashed their way into Lafayette homes, carting off anything of value and, in one instance, dragging a safe out of the residence before abandoning it and its contents in the owner’s backyard. Lafayette police, who reported a similar flurry of break-ins…