SF News 2.3-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Contra Costa County, Third In A Month A magnitude-2.3 earthquake struck Contra Costa County this afternoon, CBS San Francisco reports. The rattle happened at 2:02 p.m. today (August 12), about four miles northwest of Antioch and two
SF News Local Man Claims He Was Asleep When He Molested His 9-Year-Old Niece On Monday morning in Martinez, 35-year-old Ralph Dell was charged with sexually abusing his niece when she was 9 years old. Dell's defense attorney did not dispute that the abuse took place, but
SF News Family Members Of Measles-Infected BART Rider Fall Ill Remember all the frustration you expressed over the possibly nonvaccinating family of BART/UC Berkeley's Measles Patient Zero? Well, it looks like you might have been proven right, as Contra Costa County health
SF News 60-Year-Old Woman Convicted Of Stealing Her Granddaughter, Throwing Herself A Baby Shower Grandmother Ericka Gallego of El Monte, California was sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping her own four-month-old granddaughter in 2011 and attempting to pass the girl off as her own two-week-old
SF News Toxic Chevron Refinery Fire in Richmond Prompts Shelter-in-Place [Updated] A fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. has prompted shelter-in-place for Richmond, N. Richmond, and San Pablo. No word yet as to what caused the fire. ABC 7 News has live
SF News Dirty DUI Cases Involving Sketchy P.I. Pile Up In East Bay This American Life fans should recall the recent story of the 'P.I. Moms,' which aired last fall, and which was based on a story originally broken in Diablo Magazine. It involved
SF News Dirty CoCo County Cop Sold Crystal Meth Disguised As Burritos When we last checked in on the case against former Contra Costa County drug czar Norman Wielsch and his fame-seeking private investigator accomplice Chris Butler, the pair were accused of selling confiscated narcotics
SF News Dirty CoCo County Cop Accused of Running an Office Park Brothel Norman Wielsch, the former Contra Costa County drug czar currently under investigation for selling confiscated narcotics, is back in the news today after his former accomplice Chris Butler ratted him out for running
SF News With Detective's Testimony, Even More Unsettling Details Emerge from Richmond High Gang Rape Case As we reported last week attorneys for the seven defendants accused of gang-raping a 16 year-old female student were still claiming sex with the victim was consensual and her severe wounds were self-inflicted.
SF News Gruesome Updates From the Richmond Gang Rape Trial: Victim Was Blacked Out the Whole Time More details emerge each day as the men accused of gang-raping Jane Doe at that Richmond homecoming dance last year stand trial in a preliminary hearing in Contra Costa County. According to the
SF News Meth-Head Mom Charged In Infant's Death Apologies in advance for yet another sordid and tragic story involving the death of an outer-Bay-Area infant, but 25-year-old Livermore resident Jessica Adams has been arrested and charged in the March death of
SF News Contra Costa County Supervisors to Vote on Name Change For Mt. Diablo Today The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors is preparing to vote on a proposed name change for Mt. Diablo today. The new name if they give a thumbs-up? Mt. Reagan. Huh. This latest
SF News CoCo County Lures in Predatory Birds to Eat Exploding Squirrel Population by Jerry James Stone Contra Costa County has installed 20 man-made perches on land in Concord and Walnut Creek to attract hawks, falcons, and eagles. They hope the predatory birds will hunt down
SF News Gay Pride Month Could Become "Gay Pride Month" June -- also known as the time of year when queer movies litter KQED and theater screens; lesbians come out of hiding, sporting oversized t-shirts and flip flops in an effort to remind
SF News Contra Costa County DA <i>Will</i> Prosecute Misdemeanors In a meeting with the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, CoCo DA Robert Kochly offered up a plan that would enable his office to prosecute misdemeanors. Kochly had previously said he wouldn't
SF News Let's Get Soft On Crime, Says Contra Costa County D.A. Passive-aggressive temper tantrum risking citizen safety? Deft decision to save time and money not prosecuting lesser crimes? Open invitation for anarchistic bedlam? We'll see. After a $1.9 million pruning of his budget,
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 Sewage Spill Dumps 2.7 Million Gallons Into the Bay After an alert system SNAFU failed to notify workers at a Marin County treatment facility about a sewage overflow on Thursday night, the San Francisco Bay is now the proud recipient of 2.
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
misc Here Comes the Rain Again While not on par with Christmas Day tsunamis, this storm is pretty nifty, huh? Golden Gate transit buses have stopped, power has been knocked out to hundreds -- yes, hundreds! - of thousands
SF News Update: East Contra Costa County Residents Evacuated According to CBS 5 (interrupting us right in the middle of The People's Court, no less!) "East Contra Costa County residents are being evacuated from an area near the unincorporated town of Knightsen
SF News SFist Blotter Why, we've been so preoccupied with murder right down the street from SFist, we forgot that the rest of the Bay Area is also littered with shootings and bloody tomfoolery. Forgive us, won't
SF News Update: Former CoCo Sherrif Gone Missing or Gone Fishing Oh man, this is going to happen to us when we reach a-certain-age, too. We just know it. Harry Ramsay, a former Contra Costa County sheriff who served in the mid 1970s, went
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Temporary victory is ours: Giants 8, Brewers 0. [Chron, Examiner] -- Four people -- Contra Costa County Fire Protection Captain Matt Burton, Fire Engineer Scott Desmond, Delbert Moore, and Gayle Moore --
SF News SFist Blotter One person is dead after a dramatic shooting in the Sunset early Monday morning -- the shots were fired at a moving car, which then flipped over and crashed. The Chron has some
