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A proposal to convert a former carpet store into an indoor shooting range complete with nine shooting lanes comes before the Walnut Creek Design Review Commission at their regularly scheduled meeting tonight, Wednesday. No direct action is anticipated, with the commission expected to evaluate plans to convert the former Lewis & Lewis Carpets store into…
Two armed men assaulted and robbed a third man at the Cobblestone Apartments, 3900 block of Crow Canyon Road, on Tuesday before fleeing in a silver sedan, according to the San Ramon police department. A department release said the crime took place at approximately 6:49 p.m. with the suspects leaving the area in a 2015…
Scene of fire at Lettuce restaurant on Locust Street this morning. No reported injuries. Workers in the business at the time report “explosion” prior. Most of fire knocked down with crews probing structure for extensions…
Busy day in the 24/680 with “What’s Going On? calls coming in steadily. Sadly, investigators are working out what happened on Clayton Road at Talisman in Concord after a person they believed had been struck by a vehicle was found seriously injured in the area. The victim was transported to hospital with serious head and…
From the Office of the Sheriff: Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston announces the promotion of Captain Charlene Jacquez to the rank of Assistant Sheriff. Captain Charlene Jacquez began her public safety career in 1999 with the City of Galt Police Department, serving as both a 9-1-1 Dispatcher and Community Service Officer (CSO). In 2001,…
We’ve been fasting. That means purposefully not eating – not churning out copy more speedily. Right-thinking readers may see this and say: “Okay, but why?” and we get that, most folks don’t make a conscious decision to stop eating. We do this for a number of reasons, chief among them we like to challenge ourselves…
Photos from the scene of that gusher on Ygnacio Valley Road this afternoon, right in front of… well, you can read the address. It was impressive, with firefighters stopping to admire it’s spoutiness and the poor driver worried about his future employment (Hey, UPS, cut the poor guy some slack!) Anyway, the flow has been…
The local landscape has been tinged by the hint of burglary lately, with high-profile cases mingling with lesser crimes – the culmination of a string of break-ins noted by Lafayette police Friday. Police said they were able to identify a suspect in three previous residential burglaries in their city, their investigation taking them to a…
Our Tip Lines lit up around 8pm last night (Thursday) as a small army of the sheriff’s men and women descended on an apparent truckload of would-be thieves working the area east of Macauley Road and at the main entrance to the Diablo Country Club, which was quickly blocked by police. Residents reported as many…
Accident investigators in Walnut Creek are looking into a fatal solo vehicle crash in Rossmoor early Thursday. In a release issued by Walnut Creek police, the crash was reported at 5:06am Thursday in the area of Rossmoor Parkway and Stanley Dollar Drive. A white Subaru hit an olive tree in the center median and bounced…
