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Share + Nov 6, 2009 12:19 pm US/Pacific RICHMOND A sixth suspect has been charged in connection with the Oct.

The Pinole Historical Society is stepping things up this year, after attracting more than 500 people to its first Veterans Day Memorial and Flag Retirement last November.

The tradition of the debutante ball will be carried on this month by the San Pablo-based Iota chapter of the national Beta Pi Sigma Sorority Inc.

The 21-year-old Richmond man, whose name wasn't immediately released, was taken into custody at about 6:30 a.m. by the Richmond police SWAT team, said Lt.

The Rodeo-Hercules Fire District board has condemned member Bill Prather over an alleged discriminatory remark against women that someone reported overhearing in a bar.

The boys, ages 15, 16 and 17, were among five suspects that had been arrested in connection with the crime as of Wednesday.

Police have now arrested five people in the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Richmond.

The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office has charged four of five people arrested in connection the two-and-a-half-hour gang rape of a 15-year-old girl during Richmond High School's homecoming dance Saturday night.

Five suspects were in custody early Wednesday in northern California in the gang rape, robbery and beating of a 15-year-old girl outside her high school homecoming dance, KTVU.com reported.

Three suspects have been arrested in connection to the rape of a 15-year-old girl outside of her high school homecoming dance Saturday, bringing the total number of people in custody in the case to five.

Just days after completing a four-month censure and suspension for a comment casting doubt on the qualification of short women to be firefighters, Rodeo-Hercules Fire District board member Bill Prather faces possible censure yet again.

A Contra Costa sheriff's deputy was treated for minor injuries Monday night after a stolen car collided with his patrol vehicle during a chase.

A Bay Area nature lover will be President Barack Obama's right-hand man when it comes to America's most beautiful landmarks.

A man firing a handgun indiscriminately in front of a weekend house party sent two people to the hospital, Hercules police said Monday, but nobody will identify the gunman.

The San Pablo City Council, for reasons somewhat unclear, seems poised to switch the rotation of the mayor and vice mayor positions from December to June.

Mary Male Schembri, a gerontologist and former hospice social worker, will discuss advanced directives and end-of-life preparedness at the one-hour Better Breathers Club meeting at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Alex Clarke Room of the Public Safety Building, 880 Tennent Ave.

The early season storm is making residents of one East Bay neighborhood particularly nervous.

"Gardens of the Pacific Northwest" will be the topic when the Pinole Garden Club meets at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Alex Clark Room on the second floor of the Public Safety Facility, 2131 Pear St.

We like to pretend the Bay Area has seasons, so when we asked readers to pen a haiku inspired by autumn, we were expecting to read a bunch of poems about colorful leaves.

Funding for county libraries, like so many other basic services, is scarce these days, which makes community support more important than ever.