SF News Day Around the Bay: Locker Room Bullying Prompts Forfeiture of Antioch High School Football Game Amazon laid off 780 Bay Area workers this week and twice as many layoffs are coming next year; two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to continue funding SNAP payments; and several Antioch High School football players were allegedly caught on camera bullying another student.
SF News Teen Sideshow Spectator Dies After Attempting to Jump Between Freeway Ramps in East Bay A teenager attending a sideshow fell to his death early Saturday morning while attempting to jump across a gap between freeway ramps in the East Bay suburb of Crockett.
SF News Contra Costa County Residents Give Sheriff an Earful Over Fears That He’s Cooperating With ICE Contra Costa County is not a "sanctuary county,” but plenty of residents want to make it one, and they railed against Sheriff David Livingston for honoring ICE requests on dozens of detained immigrants since Trump took office.
SF News Delta Pilot Arraigned In Contra Costa County on 24 Counts of Child Abuse; Mother Also Arrested The Contra Costa County mother who cooperated with authorities in the investigation of her ex-boyfriend, a Delta pilot, has now also been arrested in connection with the sexual abuse of her daughter over a five-year span.
SF News Delta Pilot Arrested at SFO Was Secretly Recorded Discussing Child's Abuse A Delta pilot who was pulled off a plane by local authorities and federal agents at SFO Saturday night is implicated in the sexual abuse of a young girl in the East Bay over multiple years, and the girl's mother was also allegedly involved.
SF News Illegal Fireworks Spark Dozens of Bay Area Fires on July 4th, Injuring Several and Killing Two Dogs Illegal fireworks ignited dozens of fires across the Bay Area on the Fourth of July — from Oakland and Alameda to Antioch and San Jose — with Oakland Fire Department responding to more than 60 fires.
SF News Two Arrested After Discovery Bay Boat Rage Incident, Accused of Ramming Jet-Ski and Other Boats After some social media video showed a boat in Discovery Bay seeming to intentionally plow into a Jet-Ski and other boats Sunday, two suspects have been arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
SF News Two Separate Large Brush Fires Raging In Contra Costa County, But Evacuation Warnings Lifted Two brush fires are burning 30 miles away from each other in Contra Costa County Monday afternoon, one in Rodeo that has reached more than 60 acres, and another near the foot of Mount Diablo for which the evacuation warning has already been lifted.
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 Politics Contra Costa DA Diana Becton Faces the Latest Bay Area Effort to Recall a District Attorney Recall-mania has spread to Contra Costa County, where District Attorney Diana Becton has a recall effort in effect against her, though she’s been elected twice and may be better able to beat it than Chesa Boudin or Pamela Price were.
SF News Kidnapping and Assault Victim Denise Huskins Helped Law Enforcement Find More Victims of Matthew Muller New revelations about a previously unknown kidnapping for ransom in Contra Costa County allegedly committed by Matthew Muller, the culprit in the 'American Nightmare' kidnapping and assault of a Vallejo woman in 2015, came in part due to that woman's advocacy.
SF News Scientists Discover East Bay Squirrels Preying on Other Mammals for the First Time Researchers have found a population of California ground squirrels in an East Bay park that are actively hunting and eating voles, a behavior that has shocked squirrel experts.
SF News Invasive, 20-Pound ‘Swamp Rat’ Rodents Spreading Across Bay Area, Definitely Pose a Threat Rodents of unusual size are no longer just something from the movies. These swamp rats known as nutria are a scourge spreading across Contra Costa and Solano counties, and they’re a risk to our crops, livestock, and water supply.
SF Politics It's a Boomer vs. Boomer Battle Over Political Speech In One Small East Bay Retirement Community Out in eastern Contra Costa County, there have been political battles being waged in the pages of the community newspaper and in small demonstrations, and tensions this election year even boiled into a physical fight on a pickleball court.
SF News Road Rage Incident Leads to Fatal Shooting in Upscale Orinda An SUV driver had some reason to be so upset with a Tesla driver in Orinda that he reportedly punched the Tesla driver, who then allegedly shot and killed the SUV driver, bringing a rare gun homicide to the wealthy suburb of Orinda.
SF News San Pablo Police Warrant Turns Up 700 Catalytic Converters, More Than a Thousand Pounds of Copper Wire A Tuesday search warrant on two East Bay homes in Richmond and San Pablo resulted in the discovery of more than 700 apparently stolen catalytic converters, as well as 1,100 pounds of copper wire, and $113,000 in cash.
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 Antioch Passes a Ban on Encouraging or Even Watching Sideshows The East Bay city of Antioch is struggling with too few cops and too many sideshows, but its city council just unanimously passed a ban on advertising, promoting, encouraging, or even watching a sideshow.
SF News Oakland Man Allegedly Stabs His Own Attorney, Then Attacks His Prosecutor, In Courtroom Outburst It was a wild scene at a Contra Costa County courthouse Monday, as a man on trial for murder allegedly busted his restraints, stabbed his own attorney with a pen, and attacked his prosecutor for good measure too.
SF News Library Patrons Gone Wild: Antioch Library Temporarily Closes After Reports of Sex, Drugs, Car Break-Ins The Antioch Public Library was temporarily closed this weekend after reports of on-site drug use and sex, plus the discovery of pools of blood and bullet casings, though the library is expected to reopen Tuesday with beefed-up security.
SF News Retired East Bay Cop Pleads Not Guilty After Two-Day Pleasant Hill Standoff and Shooting That Injured Wife Attorneys for retired Pittsburg police detective Chunliam Saechao are arguing that he suffered severe post-traumatic stress in retirement and didn't receive adequate support from his former employer.
SF News Martinez Refinery Flaring Again, Town Currently Reeks of Sulfur Dioxide Yet another flare-up at the oil refinery in Martinez has homes reportedly shaking, and as of Friday afternoon, the refinery is still spewing sulfur dioxide into the air of Martinez and Pacheco.
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 Richmond Couple Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter In Death of Five-Month-Old Son A 2021 incident at a Richmond hotel saw the death of a five-month-old boy, but the parents were just found guilty of manslaughter after the infant turned out to have broken bones, burns, and methamphetamine in his system.
SF News Rodeo Couple Charged With Murder, Torture After Bathtub Death of Two-Year-Old A Contra Costa County couple claimed their toddler had accidentally drowned in a bathtub, but authorities found signs of "prolonged abuse," and arrested them on charges of murder, child abuse, and torture.
