Concord News

Locked bathrooms are giving students at Mt Diablo High School a valid reason for fidgeting in their seats at Mount Diablo High School on Thursday, Feb.

A man brandishing a gun robbed a mini-mart store and one of the customers inside it before eluding capture Friday night, police said.

Once upon a time you could board an electric train in Oakland and travel through a tunnel in the hills, pass by a bunch of Contra Costa cities, end up in Chico and never change your seat.

Three Concord residents and a 17-year-old girl are among five people arrested in Walnut Creek today after an early morning car theft.A Heriberto Hernandez, 18, Juan Franco Perez, 35 and Mario Alberto Pena, 27 - all from Concord - and transient Isaac Melgoza Gomez, 39, are in custody on suspicion of auto theft charges and conspiracy.A The ... (more)

A woman in her 60'sA was the victim of an attempted purse snatchingA in the Sunvalley Mall parking lot, near Bank of America, around 12:10pm today.

The public can comment on the Mt. Diablo school district's draft master plan for English language learners through 3 p.m. Friday, Feb.

Concord police have a man in custody an hour after chasing and searching for him on foot near the Olivera Crossing in North Concord.A The approximately 5-foot-6, 190-pound Hispanic man, apparently wanted for probatiion violation, was arrested in what appears to be a stranger's apartment on Welch Court around 2:15 p.m. "He kept banging on my door ... (more)

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Kelly Tighe has outdone himself with his fanciful set design for Center Rep's "Arms and the Man." George Bernard Shaw's outrageous satire on war, love and class distinctions opened this past weekend at the Lesher Center and continues through Feb.

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.

Q When will construction end at Highway 101 and Tully Road? ... When will the new pavement start to go down on Highway 17? The current state of the road between Lexington Reservoir and the Summit has become very rough since construction started a few months ago.

Concord police used a stun gun to subdue and arrest a 32-year-old man who led officers on a brief chase Wednesday before holing up in his car for nearly an hour in the parking lot of a Willow Pass Road apartment complex.

The Young Africans will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10, at the First Presbyterian Church, 1965 Colfax St., Concord, as part of their 2012 United States and Canada tour.

Dr. Peter Kunkel, a cardiologist who died last May at age 89, was considered a powerful force in advancing local cardiac care during the 1960s and beyond.

About 450 employees of Bank of America in Concord received lay-off notices on Wednesday morning, according Spokeswoman Colleen Haggerty.

Not sure if you have received any other emailed regarding this BUT we are experiencing in the worst way, coyote's in our residential neighborhood.

Last year, Concord had seven murders, and all of the defendants in two of those homicides were in court this week.

The Concord Police Department Traffic Unit will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License checkpoint on Saturday February 11, 2012 on Monument Boulevard near Erickson Road between the hours of 7:30pm and 3:30am. DUI checkpoints are a proven enforcement tool effective in reducing the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes.

Gorgeous singing voices and Kim Vetterli's wonderful musical direction highlight The Willows Theatre's production of "The Light in the Piazza," which opened this past weekend.

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