Posts Tagged ‘NEWS24/680’
Fatal Crash On Westbound Highway 24 At Broadway Stalls Wednesday Morning Commute
UPDATE: Westbound lanes of Highway 24 at Broadway reopened and moving again at 7:36 a.m. A fatal accident on westbound Highway 24 at the Broadway exit prompted a SigAlert for the area Wednesday, immediately closing all but a single lane of traffic and prompting a backup felt as far as Acalanes Road. We’re getting multiple…
Read MoreReader Questions Cause Of Fatal Tree Failure On I680
Editor: I write regarding your June 11th account of a fatal crash on Interstate 680 which left an apparently well-respected physician dead after a tree planted alongside the freeway crashed into her car as she was driving north. While this is indeed a tragic and unfortunate occurrence and our hearts go out to the victim…
Read MoreDanville: 100 Mph Chase On Camino Tassajara Ends In Crash
A brief but high-speed chase on Camino Tassajara in Danville ended in a grinding collision at Glasgow Drive Saturday, police quickly shutting down the roadway to aid in debris removal and their further investigation. Danville Police Chief Allan Shields said the incident began at 2:58 p.m. when Automated License Plate Reader cameras sent out a…
Read MoreWalnut Creek Man Killed In Martinez Freeway Crash Friday
A Walnut Creek man was killed Friday when his car veered off SR4 at the Alhambra Road off ramp and slid into a tree. California Highway Patrol investigators said their initial findings indicate that a 1994 Honda Civic traveling west with a single male driver aboard was approaching the off ramp at an undetermined speed…
Read MoreState Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence For Killer In Lafayette’s Daher Murder Case
The California Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a death sentence for one of three men convicted of murdering a Lafayette woman during their invasion of her Rose Court home in 1998. A Contra Costa County jury found Joseph Perez Jr. guilty of robbing and murdering Janet Daher, 46, after he and two other men selected…
Read MoreThunder Runs, Bad Boys And Blackouts – It’s Thursday In The 24/680!
If that “No Rest for the Wicked” adage holds true we must be really, really bad because our candlestick phones are jangling and that newfangled email system we have from the InterWeb has been burning red hot! No sleep for us here in the news bunker. Experience has shown us that news comes in bursts…
Read MoreDeadly Two-Alarm Fire Burns Through Martinez Apartments Saturday
A neighbor’s call brought firefighters on the run Saturday after a lethal fire broke out in a series of apartments at 98 Farm Lane in Martinez. Firefighters were met by significant smoke and flame and were almost immediately made aware that a resident was down inside the home. Heavy flames burned through the second floor…
Read More2018 Underway In The 24/680 – With Some Surprises
This New Year is upon us here at the Crossroads of Civilization in Contra Costa, and so far 2018 has been great for some but packed with surprises for others. We’ve gotten several inquiries from readers interested in changes to the state’s laws regarding marijuana sale and use, as well as changes in regulations regarding…
Read MoreElves Tiptoeing Around The 24/680 – Not All Of Them BRINGING Gifts
Don’t want to dampen the prevailing good cheer around town these days but we’re getting tons of calls about suspicious cars and people and suspicious cars with people and people apparently bent on taking what’s out on our porches this Holiday Season. Martinez police, tipped by an alert neighbor in their city yesterday, located a…
Read MoreSo Long, Chuck – You Were A Great Depression
Old Timers in Moraga may remember life Before Chuck, before the rains came. Traffic moved easily along Rheem Boulevard, neighbors waving jauntily to one another, some of them even venturing into the shopping center to buy something from time to time. And then, whammo. After a biblical eight days of solid precipitation the ground near…
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