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BART Service Resumes After Dead Body Is Discovered On Tracks [Updated]

BART service was shut down for hours Monday between their East Bay stations of Pleasant Hill and Pittsburg/Bay Point while their police officers investigated reports of "blood and possible human remains" on

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Concord School Apologizes For Serving Watermelon, Fried Chicken During Black History Month

Carondelet High School, a private Catholic school in Concord, came under fire this week after adding "racially insensitive" items to the Friday lunch menu. Fried chicken, watermelon and cornbread were set to feed

SFPD Officer Claims Relationship With Teen Boy Was Consensual

An attorney for 37-year-old Richard Hastings III, the San Francisco officer arrested last week on suspicion of molesting a 15-year-old boy, claims the relationship was consensual and that his client "was told and

SFPD Officer Accused Of Molesting Teen Boy

An officer with the San Francisco Police Department has been arrested in Concord for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old boy. According to SFPD spokesman Albie Esparza, the officer has been accused of criminal conduct,

Camel Hit On Concord Road

How do you miss a camel? What's a camel doing on a Concord road? These questions and more we will provide to you in this post. See, a camel (named Rudy!) that lives

Concord Teen Sentenced In Biking Father and Daughter's Deaths

An unidentified teenager was sentenced today in a Martinez court in the vehicular manslaughter deaths of Solaiman Nuri, 41, and his 9-year-old daughter Hadees. They were killed on April 7 while riding bicycles

Shooting Prompts Shelter In Place In Concord

According to KRON 4 Morning News, a shooting this morning has sparked shelter in place at Blackfield and Meadow Lane in Concord. Viewers have been calling into the aforementioned news station to say

Teens Throwing Parties in Vacant Contra Costa County Houses

Once again proving that we should be careful with this whole "set the world on fire, burn brighter than the sun" stuff, a group of teens decided to appropriate an empty Concord home

Arts & Entertainment

Concord Gets Its First Feature-Length Movie: 'Love, Concord'

Let's start things off by saying that if you're not reading Claycord, you're not living out loud. Really. It's a formidable site on all things Concord, Clayton, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Martinez.

Concord Woman Held For Suffocating Boyfriend

This lady, Dava Alizabeth-Ann Steen, 41, was arrested last week in the November death of longtime boyfriend Danny Ray Bennett, 47, whom she said at the time had died of natural causes. A

Phoning-While-Driving Incident Leads to Police Chase, Fatal Accident

What should have been a routine traffic stop ended in a fatal car accident yesterday evening when a driver in Concord refused to stop for a patrol car that spotted him talking on

SFist Blotter: Bystander Caught in Mission Shootout, Shootings Continue in Richmond, Fatal Stabbing in Concord

Mission / Shooting: Around 2 a.m. Sunday morning, two suspects near Alabama and 16th Street in the Mission fired shots at each other, hitting an uninvolved bystander in the process. The victim was

Valentine's Day Balloon Causes Power Outage In Concord

Do you know what airy expressions of love will get you? Powerlessness. Take, for example, what happened in Concord today. "A stray Valentine’s Day balloon drifted into power lines in Concord Monday

Three Teens Arrested For Concord School Chicken Choking Deaths

Yesterday, we brought you the story of choking chicken murders at El Monte Elementary School in Concord, where a custodian discovered the bodies of two strangled chickens. Today, police arrested three teenagers in

UPDATED: 2-Year-Old Concord Boy Killed In Dog Attack

A 2-year-old Concord boy died this morning after an attack by family pit bulls. BCN reports: "Investigators determined that the boy had been home with two adult family members when he walked into

<em>High School Musical</em> Bag Leads To Arrests

Can the High School Musical franchise do no wrong? Not likely. Take, for example, two Concord bank-robbery suspects who were arrested in connection with an October 2008 robbery of a U.S. Bank

Small Plane Flies Over Concord, Drops Racist Flyers -- Allegedly

Our current obsession? Concord. Why? Because the craziest stuff goes down there. Claycord, Contra Costa Country's best blog for breaking and bizarre East Bay news, reported on an unidentified pilot who has been

Horrifying Details Unfold in Dugard Kidnapping Case

Jaycee Lee Dugard, the girl who was kidnapped on her way to catch a school bus in 1991 only to reveal herself to police this week, had spent most of her life in

Kidnapped Girl's Alleged Abductor Will Give You Nightmares

Oh wow. According to Claycord (who has been going above and beyond excellence in covering this story), Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged abductor, Phillip Craig Garrido, is all kinds of batshit insane. Above is

1991 Kidnapped Girl Found Alive

Yesterday, a woman walked into the Concord Police Department claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 in Lake Tahoe. Dugard, now 29, "was last seen on June 10, 1991

Concord Credit Union Robbed, GPS Comes to the Rescue

According to the Mayor of Concord (a blogger's moniker, not Laura Hoffmeister), "a black man wearing a blue bandanna and carrying a blue duffel bag," robbed the CD Federal Credit Union in Concord

Craigslist Sex Encounter Climaxes in Gunfire

On Sunday, while attempting to get the sweet love of a woman he met through a Craigslist sex ad, a 37-year-old Concord man found himself dodging bullets instead. Rendezvousing at the 4700 block