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The Latest Breaking News from Contra Costa County

'Illegal Alien' Released From Custody One Day Before Allegedly Stabbing Father of Two to Death

A Contra Costa County judge released Iriarte-Valdez from custody one day before prosecutors say he killed Todd Stewart during a burglary.

International Business Times UK

California woman accuses a man of racial harassment. But the demand is for the ‘county to investigate and hold her accountable’

The onus is now on the county officials.

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Therapist, 26, Charged With Grooming a Teenage Boy She Counselled in Juvenile Hall, Abuses Him After Release

A Northern California therapist faces felony charges for allegedly grooming a teenage boy in juvenile detention for sexual abuse, exploiting therapy sessions meant for rehabilitation.

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County Tax Measures Show Limits of Local Responses to Medicaid Cuts

Election results in Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties suggest voters are wary of sales tax hikes, adding pressure for statewide solution.

Capital & Main

Two Indians arrested by ICE: One for attempted child abuse, another for $60,000 theft

ICE published the list of arrests they made over the last weekend and it included two Indians: Hemant Khann-Kumar and Rinkeshkumar Kaushikbhai Patel. Hemant Khann-Kumar is a criminal, illegal alien from India, convicted for attempted lewd act upon a child in Contra Costa County, California, the agency said. On Patel,…

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Killer squirrels have developed taste for flesh — and voles are running for their lives

Ground squirrels have turned into carnivorous killers in a local park after vole numbers exploded in Contra Costa County, California.

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How the Culture Wars Tore Apart a Bay Area Town — And Fueled a Resistance

A growing coalition of parents, students and teachers comes together to halt the chaos roiling school boards and communities.

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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…

Tribune News Service

Firefighters cut garage to rescue 70 Pomeranian dogs and cats from burning house

Fire crews responding to a blaze in Contra Costa County, California, US, had to saw off part of the garage door to enter and found 70 Pomeranians dogs and cats in need of saving

Daily Mirror

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.

Tribune News Service

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.

Tribune News Service

Down the true-crime rabbit hole: Why we’re fascinated with cold cases, serial killers and the worst in human nature

SAN JOSE, Calif. — One day in 2007, I found myself in the basement of the Contra Costa County Superior Courthouse in Martinez, staring at a partial bloody footprint on the lid of a plastic bin. The footprint looked markedly similar to the tread on the bottom of the teenage…

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