Posts Tagged ‘NEWS24/680.com’
Grandson Arrested In El Sobrante Homicide
From the Office of the Contra Costa County Sheriff: This morning, May 10, 2020, at about 9:28, Bay Station Deputy Sheriffs were dispatched to a medical-police call at the 700 block of Pebble Drive in El Sobrante. Deputies found a 90-year-old woman who suffered from trauma in a bedroom. She was later pronounced deceased at…
Read MorePredatory Shoppers Picking Up More Than Purell During Excursions in Concord, Walnut Creek
From the Walnut Creek police department: On 4/30/2020 and 5/2/2020, two suspects stole wallets from elderly females from a local grocery store. Stolen items included credit cards, cash, identification and a social security card. The suspects subsequently made fraudulent charges with the victims’ credit cards. If you have any information regarding the identity of these…
Read MoreWalnut Creek’s Phantom Baker Stops Making Starter – Neighbors Start Making Sourdough Delicacies
Ed. Last communique from The Baker, who will stop loading the neighborhood sourdough starter kiosk he (yes, The Phantom Baker is a he) has shared with hundreds of others in recent weeks: As the shut-down is near and we wind down from being Defcon 5 Kardashian viral, the baking pictures are just now starting to…
Read MoreBurglars Switching From Homes To Businesses As Residents Shelter In Place
Thieves have long made it known they will go where loot is – and where they are likely to encounter the least resistance – in their pursuit of ill-gotten gains. And while the 24/680 may have seen flurries of brazen, daylight “door kick” robbery/burglaries back in the days when people were more likely to be…
Read MoreLafayette Resident, Former FBI Agent – Arrested On Suspicion Of Accepting Bribes In Exchange For Agency Intel
Lafayette resident Babak Broumand, a former FBI agent, local business owner and current investigator working for the Chancellor at University of California, Berkeley, was arrested by federal authorities Friday near his home after federal investigators alleged he accepted a monthly cash bribe and other favors in exchange for agency information. Broumand, 53, allegedly accepted more than…
Read MoreChild Care Relief Available For COVID-19 Frontline Workers
Contra Costa County Mobilizes Support for Healthcare Staff, First Responders and All Essential Workers Martinez, Calif. (April 24, 2020) – In the battle against COVID-19, Contra Costa County healthcare workers are putting in extra hours at hospitals and clinics while juggling the needs of their own families. Child care is a vital necessity for them and…
Read MoreAssistance Program Helps Lafayette Businesses With Loan And Grant Applications
From the City of Lafayette: The City of Lafayette has partnered with the Chamber of Commerce and Townsend Public Affairs to launch the Lafayette Business Assistance Program, a way for Lafayette businesses and non-profits to get help on Small Business Administration (SBA) loan and grant applications. The City designed the program to make it as…
Read MoreIf Moraga Cannot Come To The Music, Then The Music Must Go To Moraga…
Moragans love their music. We don’t call this place MoTown for mere grins, after all. And as we are all officially housebound these days and starved for tunes local DJ Ryan O took his itinerant cabaret on the road Saturday – touring a series of neighborhoods in turn and giving an audience of masked locals…
Read More“Whoopsie LamboRarriGhini…”
Okay, we’ll admit right out of the starting gate that we don’t know what type of road machine this is but we’d be willing to bet the gear jammers among this readership do. Driver got into a spot of trouble while climbing the onramp to northbound I680 at El Pintado this morning and rolled it…
Read MoreWhat’d I See? Speedy Officer Wins Footrace With Burglar In San Ramon Tuesday
We Flashed our people in San Ramon when we heard of an apparent burglary and an ensuing footrace between police officer and would-be burglar – and wondered who the speedster might be. San Ramon PD provided this photo on their Facebook page and, no, we don’t know if Officer Hamilton will be known as “Speedy”…
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