Authorities Charge 5th Dublin Women's Prison Employee With Sex Abuse
Prosecutors announced this week that a fifth worker at a federal women's prison in Dublin was charged with sexually abusing an inmate, and they say more arrests are coming.
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Prosecutors announced this week that a fifth worker at a federal women's prison in Dublin was charged with sexually abusing an inmate, and they say more arrests are coming.
The Contra Costa County medical examiner has identified the two people killed in a head-on collision between a Honda SUV and a Tesla on I-80 near the Carquinez Bridge Sunday, one of whom was a San Francisco woman who had been reported missing.
A wildfire continued to smolder and release a smoke plume early Wednesday on a small, uninhabited island nestled in the San Joaquin Delta.
Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies responding to a domestic dispute call in Discovery Bay late Tuesday night fatally shot a suspect who allegedly pointed a rifle at them.
BART officials on Wednesday announced that Lateefah Simon -- the sole Black member of the BART Board of Directors who was removed earlier this month -- will continue to serve on the transit agency's board.
ConFire is saying this is the earliest it has seen significant vegetation fires in Contra Costa County.
The owner of an East Bay restaurant is raising money for the Ukraine relief efforts and shares a similar story of running from war and becoming a refugee.
More than 45 years after Richard Bischel Sr. was killed in an attempted burglary, Alameda police have announced they have identified a suspect in the cold case murder.
An East Bay school principal is trying to turn a symbol of hate into a positive civics lesson for his students after a neighbor across the street from his East Bay school hung an upside-down American flag with a swastika.
Two grass fires were burning Tuesday afternoon in Bay Point and one person was in custody in relation to the fires, authorities said.
A new strain of COVID-19, BA.2, is appearing in greater quantities in county wastewater samples, though coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are still declining in Contra Costa County, health officials told the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
Hayward mother Samantha Johnson was formally charged with murder Tuesday in the killing of her daughter, Sophia Mason, whose body was found in Merced County earlier this month as shocking details emerged in the case.
A strike by more than 500 workers at Chevron's massive Richmond refinery will not impact the flow of gasoline to San Francisco Bay Area gas pumps, according to company officials.
An Oakland City Council member called a fire at a tiny home community that displaced five people Monday morning "unacceptable," according to the council member's office.
Berkeley Police said this week they arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with a shooting at Greg Brown Park last month.
