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Delta co-pilot arrested child sex abuse charges after agents stormed the cockpit is named

The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office named the suspect as Rustom Bhagwagar, 34, a resident of Florida. Officials have confirmed that the suspect was taken into custody after authorities received a report about sex crimes against a child

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Judge names 17 Bay Area cops who allegedly sent racist text messages, memes

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a move that deepened the scandals engulfing the Antioch Police Department, a Contra Costa County judge on Friday released the names of 17 city police officers accused of using racist slurs, jokes and memes in text messages over a period of more than two years.

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Evictions eclipsed pre-pandemic levels in Bay Area as tenant protections expired

Janae Randolph waited nervously with her boyfriend outside a wood-paneled courtroom at the Contra Costa County courthouse in Martinez, California. She scanned the increasingly crowded hallway for somebody official-looking — maybe a public defender, she hoped — who would explain why they’d been summoned after receiving an eviction notice at…

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East Bay cannabis seizures cap busy regulatory year

SAN JOSE, Calif. — State cannabis control workers closed out a busy year in Alameda and Contra Costa counties by serving warrants at multiple homes in Antioch and Oakland last week, recovering plants and processed flowers, as well as cash, authorities said.

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San Francisco Bay Area counties defend use of election software ensnared in China data-sharing probe

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Three of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest counties will continue to use polling station software that was ensnared in a Los Angeles data breach investigation and resulted in at least four other election jurisdictions ditching the software amid allegations of embezzlement and Chinese data sharing.

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Does the Bay Area have enough water to build housing during the drought?

SAN JOSE, Calif. – When Contra Costa County supervisors last summer signed off on 125 new homes slated for 30 acres of grazing land in the oak-dotted Tassajara Valley, they were warned water was going to be an issue.

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Former sheriff’s deputy sentenced to 6 years for shooting Bay Area man

MARTINEZ, Calif. — In the conclusion of Contra Costa County’s first case involving a policeman who was prosecuted for an on-duty shooting, ex-sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for fatally shooting a mentally ill man during a slow-speed police chase in 2018.

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