SF News First Flock of California Condors In 100 Years Spotted In Contra Costa County It’s a small but sure sign that the California condor population is rebounding after near-extinction, as six California condors were recently tracked in Contra Costa County, the first flock of these birds to fly through the county in 100 years.
SF News Danville Man, Two Daughters Found Dead in Suspected Murder-Suicide An 11-year-old and a 13-year-old girl were found dead from gunshot wounds, along with their 44-year-old father, in what authorities suspect was a murder-suicide in Danville Wednesday afternoon.
SF News 9 Arrested, 21 Victims Rescued In East Bay In Nationwide Human Trafficking Crackdown The district attorneys' offices of Alameda and Contra Costa c0unties held a joint press conference Wednesday with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to announce nine arrests in the last two weeks as part of a national anti-human trafficking operation.
SF News 20-Year-Old Vallejo Man Arraigned on Murder Charges Stemming From High-Speed Crash That Killed Mother and Son A 20-year-old man from Vallejo has been charged with murder after an allegedly stolen SUV he was driving crashed into a woman's car in Rodeo last week, killing her and one of her twin sons, and injuring the other.
SF News Brentwood Man Arrested for Bizarre Rash of BB Gun Attacks On Cars A 31-year-old Brentwood man is in Contra Costa County Jail and charged with a shooting spree, albeit a BB gun shooting spree — and he is suspected of shooting at at least seven cars in a 20-hour period.
SF News Health Officials Urge Contra Costa DA To Investigate Martinez Refinery’s Unreported Hazardous Chemical Release Contra Costa Health Services is demanding the investigation of a release of hazardous metals into the air from a Thanksgiving weekend flare-up at the Martinez Refining Company, which left neighborhoods covered in “mysterious white ash.”
SF Politics Bizarrely, Clarence Thomas’s Wife Is Pumping Money Into an East Bay School Board Race Three candidates for the Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board have pulled in more than $10,000 in campaign contributions, much of it from the insurrectionist wing of the Republican party.
SF News Two Men Escape From Clayton Correctional Facility, Despite Having Only a Few More Months to Serve Two men serving time at a minimum-security detention facility in Clayton sprung the place Sunday morning and remain at large, though one of them only had four more months to serve.
SF News Bay Area Fire Departments Kept Very Busy By July 4 Fireworks, Which Caused Hundreds of Fires Hundreds of fires caused by illegal fireworks (and illegal bonfires in the middle of streets) peppered the entire Bay Area Monday night, leading to some very busy firefighters across the region.
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 Four East Bay Arson Suspects Arrested For an Astonishing 33 Fires in a 48-Hour Period It’s unclear whether the four suspects and more than 30 fires set over two days are in any way related, and while no one was hurt, one report says that a suspect managed to escape custody.
SF News Furious Contra Costa Sheriff Calls It a ‘Sad Day’ That Deputy Was Sentenced to Six Years for Killing Someone It’s not just San Francisco where law enforcement is unhappy with their DA, as the Contra Costa County Sheriff blasts his DA for pursuing (and winning) a conviction against a deputy in a fatal on-duty shooting.
SF News East Bay Groups Throwing Pride Prom For LGBTQ+ Teens A PFLAG chapter in eastern Contra Costa County is hosting its first ever Pride Prom in April, inviting LGBTQ+ teens from all the local district's high schools to attend.
SF News Walnut Creek Nordstrom Flash-Mob Suspects Once Again Allowed To Walk Free After Computer Snafu In the second accidental suspect release in two weeks, the mere three suspects arrested in the 80-member flash-mob Nordstrom heist are all released, but two of them apparently shouldn’t have been.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Contra Costa County Invites Anyone to Come Get Vaccinated A standoff in Pinole ended peacefully Monday morning (though a dog was killed), Contra Costa County is telling everyone to come get vaccinated there, and PG&E will have a hearing on its probation violation on Tuesday.
SF News East Bay Couple Charged With Severely Abusing 11-Year-Old Daughter Who Died Last Month A couple in the East Bay town of Rodeo has been charged with torturing and abusing an 11-year-old girl over a period of four months, and they may soon be charged with her murder.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Contra Costa County Opens Up Vaccines to All on Tuesday Vaccine FOMO is real, local counties are preparing for a major influx of vaccine shipments and a huge crush of demand, and new Noe Valley restaurant/bar Mr. Digby's is about to make its debut.
SF News Two Bay Area Counties Have Expanded Vaccine Eligibility to 50+ Set On Monday, Contra Costa County expanded its COVID vaccine eligibility requirements to everyone age 50 and over, regardless of health conditions. It's the second Bay Area county to do so after Solano County made the same move last week.
SF Politics Contra Costa County DA Catches Heat From Business Owners Over Backyard Wedding She Hosted Last Summer Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton is the latest elected official in California to face a public outcry for their seemingly hypocritical behavior regarding pandemic-related public health rules.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Contra Costa County Halts Indoor Dining, Closes Indoor Gyms; Santa Clara Also Stops Indoor Dining The latest county announcement about rolling back business openings due to rising COVID case metrics comes from Contra Costa County, which like San Francisco is shutting down all indoor dining indefinitely.
SF News Contra Costa County is Getting an ‘Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice’ Contra Costa County supervisors argue that systemic racism is a COVID-19 superspreader too, and approved a new social justice office that will not initially involve taxpayer dollars.
SF News Contra Costa Becomes First Bay Area County to Roll Back Reopening Rules As It Faces Backward Slide to 'Red' Tier Contra Costa County public health officials announced Wednesday that the county would be ratcheting back its rules on some higher risk business activities, decreasing capacity for restaurants and movie theaters as it faces a possible move back to "Red" tier status next week.
SF News Fires Erupt Along Highway 24 Prompting Evacuation Order For Lafayette Two small fires began Sunday afternoon on either side of Highway 24 in Contra Costa County, and county fire officials say the fires are "rapidly expanding" in the current winds.
SF News Concord Hit-And-Run Suspect Has Thorough Criminal Past An incredibly sad story to come out of the July 4th weekend in the East Bay was a hit-and-run accident in Concord that killed two children and badly injured a three-month old (The
SF News Widow Of Orlando Nightclub Shooter Files Petition In East Bay Court To Change Son's Name Noor Zahi Salman, the widow of the man who murdered 49 people at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June, grew up in the East Bay, in Rodeo. As CBS 5 reports, she is
