Bay Point News

The Marsh Elementary principal said a parent -- Sgt. Robert Osborn -- was deployed to Afghanistan when the school year began.

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

A Bay Point man who shot himself after a sheriff's deputy had pulled him over on a traffic stop in November committed suicide, a jury ruled.

This week The News expands its coverage into Pittsburg and Bay Point and will include stories about interesting people, events and other news items in those areas.

While it was a church event, Holy Rosary School students had a strong presence, providing a majority of the entertainment.

All three fights began around bars' 2 a.m. closing time Sunday, and at least two involved participants who were drunk, police said.

A suspect in the city's first homicide of 2012 who was at the center of an intense manhunt by police in several counties was arrested Monday in Bay Point.

Nine people were arrested in downtown Walnut Creek fights between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m. Sunday, including two men arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after severely beating a man in a parking garage, police said.

An Antioch man has been sentenced in federal court in Oakland to 10 years in prison for conspiring to cultivate marijuana plants at three grow houses in Contra Costa County.

During the nine weeks of training, Bartley studied the Army mission and received instruction and training exercises in drill and ceremonies, Army history, physical fitness, rifle marksmanship, weapons use, armed and unarmed combat, and field maneuvers and tactics.

A reader used our contact form to send the following missive asking about the Contra Costa prisoner reentry program adopted by Contra Costa County Supervisors in March 2011.

A demolished plot of Bay Point land neighbors say is an ugly magnet for transients will likely have to sit fallow while county officials sort through the rubble of Contra Costa's dissolving redevelopment agency.

Police have identified three more boys who say they were molested by Mt. Diablo school district custodian John Astor, a prosecutor said Thursday, bringing the number of alleged victims to five.

A stench that permeated the air around a Bay Point elementary school forced several students and teachers to go home sick Thursday, but officials say the odor won't last and is relatively harmless.

A garbage truck sheared a power pole this morning, causing a small fire and knocking out electricity to the Bay Point area, authorities said.

A grass fire that broke out this morning has forced the shutdown of Bailey Road between Bay Point and Concord, the Contra Costa Fire District said.