Posts Tagged ‘NEWS24/680’
FBI Agent Latest Victim Of Lafayette Car Burglars
It’s no secret that Lafayette – like most other Bay Area cities these days – has been particularly hard hit by car burglars prowling area parking lots looking for loot while car owners dine. An unidentified Federal Bureau of Investigation agent learned this the hard way Saturday while parked outside the American Kitchen restaurant on…
Read MoreMaking It Through A Different Kind Of Thanksgiving
This holiday was an unusual one on a lot of fronts for us. We were missing some key people whose absence was acutely felt; the now-expected COVID restrictions were in place; what dinner table conversation there was steered clear of politics – televised sporting events flickered in the background with strange, cardboard cutouts of quarantined…
Read MoreLafayette Suspends Business Assistance Program Due To Lack Of Federal Funding
From the City of Lafayette: In March 2020, a national emergency and a county shelter-in-place order were declared due to the global spread of COVID-19. Several Lafayette businesses were immediately impacted by the shelter-in-place order and had to cease operations. Other businesses had to severely limit their operations. Local non-profits were also restricted in their…
Read MoreLocal Businesses Alarmed, Confused By Email Ransom Threats
Businesses throughout the 24/680, the East Bay, the Bay Area and the nation received alarming, threatening emails Thursday informing them that explosives placed in their businesses would detonate if specified ransom demands were not met. None of the threats bore out though police were kept busy comforting some owners – both frantic and angered by…
Read MoreOne Dead, Two Critically Injured After Rudgear Road DUI Crash Thursday
One person was killed and two others were trapped in the wreckage of a their cars with critical injuries after a grinding crash at Rudgear Road and the South Broadway extension from Highway 680 Thursday night. County Coroner’s deputies identified the dead man as Hector Garza, 45, of Walnut Creek. Garza’s child also suffered critical…
Read MoreEight Year Old Hit, Severely Injured Across From Foothill Middle School In Walnut Creek Wednesday
We Flashed our Walnut Creek subscribers Wednesday evening after we learned of a vehicle versus child collision at Cedro Lane and Cafeto in Walnut Creek and have learned that the child was severely injured in that crash. Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman Robert Marshall confirmed our version of the account Thursday, saying the…
Read MoreNEWS24/680 101: Using Us
Lots of new, well-scrubbed and shining faces in our News Sphere of late and we welcome you all. Here are some basics you’ll need to know to get the most out of us in the months ahead – veteran readers may want to go get a cup of coffee or check on the stock market.…
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 MoreArea Flags Come Down To Half Staff As Shasta County Fire Claims Lives
Flags at local fire stations and civic building have been ordered flown at half staff Friday as wildfires burning in Northern California claimed the lives of two firefighters and are showing no sign of slowing down. The Carr Fire in Shasta County has so far burned 44,450 acres of timber and has blown through neighborhoods…
Read MoreThe Sunday Mumble
Here we are, our Merry Band, in the grip of Summer and a cresting news cycle. Saturday was a day of new records following a week of new records here at NEWS24/680 with record reader visitation (we thought everyone was out of town), a record number of News Flashes going out to record numbers of…
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