Antioch News

The Antioch Lapidary Club presents their Jewelry, Gem & Rock Show onA Saturday and Sunday, February 18 & 19, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds, 1201 West 10th Street, Antioch.

The Antioch Historical Society presents Forever Young, a nostalgic look at toys from the past through Wednesday, February 29 at their museum in Antioch.

Two people were wounded in the shooting, according to a Tweet sent at 9:36 p.m. from the Contra Costa Fire Protection District.

Officers responded to several calls reporting the shooting in an alleyway behind an apartment complex in the 2200 block of Spanos Street, near Magnolia Way, Lt.

Two men were charged with felony attempted burglary Friday, a day after they were arrested following a thwarted home break-in, police said.

More than 60 percent of Antioch voters in a special district that includes Antioch High School would support a bond that would modernize the well-worn school, according to a recently conducted survey.

Turner Elementary School in Antioch recently honored Students for the Month of December for demonstrating the character pillar of caring.

Ladeinde completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, and basic warfare principles and skills.

The Arts & Cultural Foundation of Antioch and El Campanil Theater will present a Blues Benefit Concert from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday.

Politicians and their special interest supporters don't see 2012 as the ideal time to seek ways to trim budgets and reform overgenerous public pension systems.

A Contra Costa County judge Wednesday dismissed all state criminal charges against four former officers tied to a vice squad corruption scandal in an effort to preserve a concurrent federal prosecution, a defense attorney said.

During a recent lunch date with a friend in downtown Antioch, Efi Lubliner noticed the El Campanil Theatre and wondered why more films weren't being shown in the historic community theater.

The following calls were among those handled by the Antioch police Jan. 30-Feb. 3, according to information provided by the Police Department.

East Bay Regional Parks District naturalist Mike Moran, center, in green, points out a bird during one of the district's monthly bird walks, this time along the Big Break Regional Trail in Oakley, Calif.

A man suspected of prying copper and brass fixtures from municipal installations in two East Contra Costa cities was arrested after an alert metal recycler pointed him out, police said.

A basement fire fueled by household chemicals and leftover cardboard damaged a home and displaced its two residents early Wednesday morning, the Contra Costa Fire District said.

This is normally the season when California newts, a variety of salamander, migrate from the woods and fields where they lie dormant during the dry months to the ponds and streams where they congregate to mate and produce a newt generation.

A volunteer free medical clinic in Pittsburg will celebrate its first anniversary Feb.

Bay City News A planned trip by an indicted former drug squad leader to LosA Angeles to appear on the "Dr. Phil" television talk show has been blocked byA a federal judge in Oakland.

Contra Costa County property owners will be asked in the coming weeks to approve a new parcel fee to help clean stormwater runoff.