Martinez News

TWISTS AND TURNS abound in Center Rep's intriguing production of "Witness for the Prosecution," which opened last week at the Lesher Center for the Arts.

Jurors in Martinez have decided Edward Wycoff should be sentenced to death for killing his sister and brother-in-law in their El Cerrito home in 2006.

Nathan Burris pleaded not guilty today to charges that he fatally shot his former girlfriend and her friend at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza Aug.

MARTINEZ, Calif. a " A Sacramento County trucker will be executed for killing his sister and brother-in-law despite pleas from the victims' son against the death penalty.Jurors decided on a death sentence Thursday for 40-year-old Edward Wycoff.

The Willows Theatre Company announced Tuesday that its theater in Concord will close Sunday, but the cabaret in downtown Martinez will remain open.

Residents can spend an afternoon shopping and sampling wine during the Fall Wine Stroll, from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

At 8:06 a.m., a caller from Alhambra Avenue reported a broken front window, but was unsure if it was vandalism or a burglary.

Privatization of the Novato Sanitary District's $90 million sewage treatment plant will go to voters next year.

Salvador Rodriguez, 21, was expected to be freed from Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez late Friday after prosecutors concluded there was insufficient evidence to file charges against him in connection with Saturday's attack.

Drivers will head into the weekend without the Bay Bridge, Caltrans said today, as workers continue to fine-tune and then test repairs to a brace that failed and fell onto the bridge deck earlier this week.

Police have arrested an 18-year-old suspect who they believe was involved in the rape of a 15-year-old girl at Richmond High School last week.

The California Highway Patrol is looking for anyone who may have information about a gruesome incident that left a man dead on southbound Interstate Highway 680 just north of Martinez Thursday morning.

This is one house that causes rumors to fly.....it is located at 22nd and H St. in Sacramento.

A former Martinez resident has sued the school district, alleging her son was sexually molested at an after-school program on the John Swett Elementary School campus.

Jurors deliberated for 45 minutes Tuesday before convicting a Sacramento County man in the first-degree murders of his sister and brother-in-law, El Cerrito attorneys Paul and Julie Rogers.

A caller reported at 4:31 p.m. that a purse was stolen from a shopping cart at a business on Arnold Drive.

The courtyard on the other side of the fence on the campus of Richmond High School, which was the scene of a rape Saturday night, is photographed in Richmond, Calif., Monday, Oct.

Two inmates in Contra Costa County jails died Saturday in unrelated incidents, a sheriff's spokesman said Sunday.

HOW FAR WILL grandparents go to keep their adored grandson from leaving the nest? Find out in Diablo Actors' Ensemble's production of "Over the River and Through the Woods" opening this weekend.

The indictment, handed down in Martinez, sends the case to a jury trial. Gressett, 52, who has been free on bail, was ordered to appear in court for arraignment Nov.