SF News Seven Deplorable Teens Arrested After Alleged Late-Night Smash-and-Grab at Concord Mall Seven teens are accused of busting the glass entrance doors of Concord’s Sunvalley Shopping Center and emptying merchandise out of stores at around 4 am Sunday morning, but they didn’t make it far after a bungled getaway attempt.
SF News Sunday Links: East Bay Cop Ordered to Pay Bills, Lost Wages to Teacher She Hit in Crosswalk There have been a lot of shootings locally and nationally this weekend; the entrepreneurs who purchased Radio Shack and Pier 1 have been accused of running a Ponzi scheme; and a Concord cop must pay the medical bills and lost wages of a woman she hit in a crosswalk.
SF News Two Charged In Last Week's Triple Shooting In Concord Parking Garage One man faces an attempted murder charge and another man faces a conspiracy charge in connection with a triple shooting last Tuesday in Concord.
SF News Concord Nursing Home Accused of Giving Bleach to Patient Instead of Water In a new lawsuit, a paraplegic man says staff at a care facility in the East Bay city of Concord gave him a cup of wound-cleaning solution with his pills instead of water. He says they didn’t call 911 for two hours until he borrowed his roommate’s phone.
SF News Sunday Links: Bay Area Church to Help Wipe Out $2.3M in Medical Debt Across Seven Counties The Department of Defense is now heavily restricting the media’s access to the Pentagon; the city of Milpitas is expanding its SMART transit program by 50%; and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Saratoga has partnered with a nonprofit to erase Bay Area residents’ medical debt.
SF News Three People Shot at Concord Parking Garage, Multiple Suspects Arrested An unexplained shooting in a Concord parking garage Tuesday night has left three people hospitalized, though Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies quickly identified and detained multiple suspects.
SF News Update: Apparent Illegal Fireworks Mishap Torches Mount Diablo High School Football Field What appears to be an illegal fireworks stunt gone wrong destroyed the football field at Mount Diablo High, just days before the team was slated to play its first home game of the season.
SF News Sunday Links: Northern California Safeway Workers Win Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike A man who jumped from a rope swing into the Russian River is presumed dead; the federal government has released over $6 billion in previously frozen education grants after weeks of backlash; and the Safeway strike was averted after a tentative deal.
SF News Saturday Links: Federal Judge Issues Restraining Order Blocking Race-Based ICE Raids Some South Bay high schools are working to educate students about using AI tools ethically while curbing cheating; former Emeryville mayor John Bauters is now a contestant on reality show, 'The Snake'; and a federal judge has blocked ICE from conducting indiscriminate raids.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Team USA Swimmer to Take on Full CA Coastline in 2026 The Pink Triangle installation is set to return next week for its 30th Pride celebration; residents of Musk's Starbase, Texas, were told they might lose their property rights due to new zoning; and a former Olympic swimmer plans to swim the entire CA coast in 2026.
SF News ICE Presence at Bay Area Immigration Courts Alarms Advocates ICE agents were seen in the hallways and waiting areas of courthouses in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Concord throughout the past week. One man was reportedly arrested outside the Concord court on Wednesday.
SF News Concord Police Shoot and Kill Man Who Was Allegedly Stabbing His Father Police in Concord were called to the scene around 1:30 am Tuesday morning on reports that a stabbing was in progress, reportedly that of a son stabbing his father, and police shot and killed that suspect after a standoff.
SF News 3.7M Earthquake, This One Centered In East Bay, Shakes Bay Area Sunday Morning Another small earthquake struck on Sunday morning, two days after a couple of morning shakers rattled the Bay Area coming from a different direction.
SF News Concord Man Arrested For Allegedly Having 100 Pounds of Meth In His Car The California Highway Patrol conducted a routine traffic stop in I-680 in Concord, and a drug-sniffing dog indicated there may have been narcotics in the vehicle. And were there ever, as the CHP seized nearly 100 pounds of suspected methamphetamine from the car.
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 Concord Man Found Guilty In Bizarre North Beach Pipe-Bomb-Throwing Incident An East Bay man now faces up to 14 years in state prison for an unhinged incident last fall that began at Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach.
SF News Concord Is On Track to Get Rent Control, More Bay Area Cities May Follow Rent control is going beyond Oakland and San Francisco, as Concord is on the verge of implementing it, and a handful of other Bay Area cities also have rent control ballot measures in the works.
SF News Another Home-Built Plane Crashes In the Bay Area, Killing Its Pilot A second home-built aircraft has crashed inside of two weeks in the Bay Area, killing the pilot aboard, and pointing to a disturbing apparent trend.
SF News Suspect In North Beach Assault, Pipe-Bomb-Throwing Had Federal Bomb Conviction, Domestic Violence History The suspect has now been named in Sunday's bizarre incident that began in North Beach and led to a police chase across the Bay that included improvised explosives.
SF News The Bay Area Is Littered With Toppled Trees, Downed Power Lines, Following Latest Storm Intense winds on Tuesday caused all kinds of mayhem, leading to widespread power outages, flight delays, trees damaging buildings, glass flying off high-rises, one toppled big rig, and at least one escaped suitcase at SFO.
SF News Body Found on Highway 4 In East Bay Confirmed to Be Teenager Missing Since New Year’s Day The body of Pittsburg 19-year-old Damond Lazenby Jr who had been missing for a week was found Saturday afternoon next to a Concord highway, in circumstances his family reportedly calls "suspicious."
SF News Body Found In East Bay House That Appeared to Be Set On Fire Investigators in the East Bay city of Concord suspect foul play in the death of a person whose remains were found in a house that was likely set on fire Thursday evening.
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 Four People Injured In Shooting at Dave & Busters In Concord At least four individuals were involved in a fight that broke out late Sunday at an East Bay Dave & Busters — the corporate sports bar-meets-adult-arcade concept — and they all ended up shot.
SF News East Bay Man Pleads Guilty to Impersonating Mailman to Steal Identities Mail theft has been an increasingly severe problem in San Francisco and the wider Bay Area since the start of the pandemic, and in one recent case, a mail thief based in the East Bay has pleaded guilty in federal court.
