Contra Costa County

The fire was reported shortly before 3:30 a.m. and four engines and two battalion chiefs responded quickly and had the fire controlled after 45 minutes.

The collision was reported at 8:32 p.m. at the intersection of Sellers Avenue and Church Road, Battalion Chief Jeff Burris said. One person needed to be extricated from a vehicle and was then airlifted to John Muir Medical Center Walnut Creek. Another person was transported to a hospital via ground ambulance.

Pierce, 86, had been living in Thailand, Butt said in his regular "Tom Butt E-Forum" Saturday. Butt called Pierce "hands down, Richmond's most colorful mayor."

The victims, many of whom were elderly and in financial distress, sought mortgage relief services from Grand View Financial LLC in counties stretching from Mendocino and Placer counties south to San Diego County. Eighteen of the 121 counts emanate in Contra Costa County, 11 in Alameda County, and nine each in San Francisco and Solano counties. Other counts relate to cases in San Mateo, San Joaquin, Placer, El Dorado, and Sacramento counties.

The USGS reported that the first quake hit at 9:08 p.m. Saturday, measuring magnitude 1.6, and occuring about 3 miles south of San Ramon.

BART officials are reporting trains on the Antioch line will travel on a single track between the Orinda and Walnut Creek stations on Saturday.

The man was identified on Saturday as 40-year-old William Cody Tate of San Pablo.

Both victims were taken to a hospital and are expected to survive.

The investigation was reopened after people with new information about the killing contacted police.

(BCN) -- A suspect was arrested Friday in multiple incidents of arson at the campus of the Pleasant Hill Elementary School, police said.

According to a 2 Investigates review of coroner's reports stemming from Jan. 1, 2014, a total of 19 people have died in jail at Contra Costa County jails, which includes Pina. At least nine, or nearly 50 percent, have committed suicide, the data shows

Emergency protocols put into effect as a blaze at Crockett fuel plant raged on, seemed to have kept residents informed, officials said Wednesday. 

Contra Costa County prosecutors have charged a man with murder for allegedly fatally shooting a teenager during a carjacking last week in Richmond's Hilltop area, according to court documents.

Officials were trying to determine Wednesday if a 4.5 magnitude earthquake triggered an explosion at a fuel storage facility in the San Francisco Bay Area that started a fire and kept thousands of people in their homes for hours because of potentially unhealthy air.

The company announced on Twitter Saturday night that all of the estimated 738,000 customers have their power back.

The CHP said the collision was first reported at 11:26 p.m. at 283 Delta Road involving at least two vehicles. Confirmation of others injuries or an arrest wasn't immediately provided.