SF News Now the Bay Area Has Its Own Fire, as Point Fire in Contra Costa County Grows to Nearly 500 Acres There were evacuations Friday in Bay Point and Concord, as the Point Fire in Contra Costa County grew to more than 470 acres, but was 40% contained as of Saturday.
SF News East Bay Family Seeks Answers In Mysterious Death of Teen Girl Found Dead In SF Driveway A 15-year-old girl who had recently been released from a psychiatric facility ran away from her Bay Point home last week. Less than three days later she was found dead in the driveway of a home in SF's Oceanview neighborhood.
SF News At Least One Dead in Bay Point Halloween Night Shooting That Involved ‘30 to 40 Gunshots’ Halloween night went tragically wrong in the Contra Costa County community of Bay Point Tuesday night, with at least one person dead after an incident where neighbors reported hearing “30 to 40 gunshots.”
SF News In Ominous Sign for This Fire Season, Two Brush Fires Break Out Next to Homes In East Bay Subdivisions In One Day Firefighters in Contra Costa County were battling two vegetation fires Wednesday that broke out dangerously close to densely populated subdivisions, in Antioch and in Bay Point. And a third fire also broke out today in Livermore.
SF News 30-Acre Brush Fire Raged in Contra Costa County for Two Hours Friday, Now Fully Contained A grassy hill brush fire between Concord and Bay Point forced several evacuations early Friday afternoon and eventually grew to 30 acres, but Cal Fire had it fully contained by 2 p.m.
SF News Two Highway Patrol Officers Injured in Bay Point When SUV Plows Into Them After chasing down a blue Subaru Outback early Sunday morning in Bay Point, two officers got out of their cruisers to arrest the suspect. The suspect promptly mowed them down and drove off.
SF Politics East Bay Man Sentenced to Three Years for Death Threats to CNN Hosts Who Reported That Trump Lost CNN’s Don Lemon and Brian Stelter both testified at the sentencing of a 36-year-old Bay Point man who threatened to kill CNN hosts, their parents, and their children over the network's lack of faith in Trump’s claims about the 2020 election results.
SF Politics Bay Area Man Arrested After He Allegedly Went Nuts Threatening Democratic Congressman and His Family on Jan. 6 In yet another story of a conspiracy-addled right-wing Trump fanboy unraveling in the waning days before the inauguration and allegedly turning to criminal threats and other craziness, we bring you the case of 35-year-old Bay Point resident Robert Lemke.
SF News East Bay Convenience Store Robbery, Pistol-Whipping Caught On Video An armed robbery Sunday night at a convenience store in Bay Point ended with one of the alleged thieves fatally shot, and the initial unfolding of the robbery — which left a cashier injured — was caught on surveillance video.
SF News Truck Driver Plows Through Crowd Outside Restaurant, Killing One One person is dead and another 8 are injured after a truck drove through a crowd standing outside of a restaurant in Bay Point. Investigators are still trying to determine why the truck's
SF News CoCo County Bart Stations to Receive ATM-Like Library Book Machines Starting sometime in April, library books will be available at Contra Costa County BART stations via "ATM style lending machines." A new program called Library-a-Go-Go, along with the Contra Costa County Library, will
SF News SFist Blotter On Friday night at around 11:30 p.m., the intersection of Leavenworth and O'Farrell played host to a shooting. It seems that shots were fired from one car into another, leaving two
SF News Son Of BART Employee Wins Spelling Bee! And the Bay Area dominates your reality TV scene YET AGAIN!!! Danville's own Evan O'Dorney, sponsored by the proud-as-punch Contra Costa Times, wins this year's spelling bee on the word "serrefine," which is
SF News Genius Grants The only MacArthur we've ever encountered is the last BART stop to change from the Pittsburg/Bay Point and Richmond lines! Four folks in the Bay Area, though, have slightly different associations with
