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Share + Comments Nov 17, 2009 9:29 pm US/Pacific CONCORD Mt. Diablo High School in Concord was locked down for more than two hours this afternoon due to an unfounded report of a man with a gun who had entered the campus, a police corporal said.

The Design Review Board is scheduled to meet in special session at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

CLAYCORDIANS in North Concord, be on alert! There's a furry resident of CLAYCORD missing, so keep your eyes out for him.... Last night, my daughter and her boyfriend came home from work to find their adorable Boston Terrier had escaped from their yard.

Last night, between the hours of 6 and 9pm, the Concord Police held a "click it or ticket" seatbelt enforcement operation at Willow Pass Road and Galindo Street in Downtown Concord.

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Come January, garbage and recycling service in the city may get a lot more expensive for someone.

Officers used a Taser to subdue a man in a wheelchair who brandished what turned out to be a replica handgun at them, police said.

Take one part enthusiasm, one part energy and one part high spirits, and what you've got is a successful community service project by a troop of Boy Scouts and adult volunteers.

A 24-year-old Bay Point man convicted of killing a Concord landscape company owner during a robbery scam will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Concord city offices will be closed Wednesday, Nov. 25, for a furlough day, and Nov.

The Concord Police Department has been awarded a new traffic safety grant for a year-long anti-DUI program aimed at preventing deaths and injuries on our roadways.

Erroneous reports of a custodian with a gun prompted a lockdown at Mt. Diablo High School this afternoon that kept hundreds of students and teachers locked in their classrooms for more than two hours after school ended.

Mt. Diablo High School in Concord is on lockdown this evening after students reported spotting a man with a gun.

State budget cuts slashed her home health care services salary by more than half.

THEY'RE BACK. The crazy guys from the Reduced Shakespeare Company will be at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek this weekend for a performance of "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ." Performing the show that made them an international sensation, Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor will take you through Shakespeare's canon during a ...

According to the letter sent out to neighbors in the Farm Bureau/Wren Avenue area, the City of Concord has received plans for a 13-lot subdivision on a 0.98 acre site on the corner of Farm Bureau and Wren Avenue.

The easy cuts are done. Now city officials plan to ask residents what programs should be spared from the budget ax, which is likely to fall again.

The Concord Civic Center Blue Star Memorial site, honoring members of the armed forces, has undergone a restoration.

The new Lowe's, located on Arnold Industrian Way in Concord, is almost complete.

After years of fighting to stave off Indian tribes and their casino dreams, Contra Costa County will throw its support behind the most ambitious of them under a deal that would pay the county $12 million a year if a casino resort rises on the Richmond waterfront.