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| Jan.11 |
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Break-in at school
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| Feb.9 |
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Explosion destroys apartment building A natural gas line exploded, injuring 2 people and destroying part of a building. 12 to 16 units left uninhabitable | |
| Feb.26 |
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Teacher charged having sex with boy 31-year-old Lynna Weusthoff, high school teacher, charged with having sex with a 16-year-old student during 5-month affair | |
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| Mar.5 |
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67 applicants for city manager
| Mar.9 |
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Pharmacist's license revoked
| Mar.12 |
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Bicycle bank robber
| Mar.28 |
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Tainted Shots' Man Commits Suicide
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| May.8 |
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Lab enlisted in biowarfare
| May.10 |
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Bicyclist held for bank robberies across US
| May.14 |
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Convicted for errant gum wrapper A 13-year-old Jeffrey Figueroa spit gum wrapper out. The wrapper hit a fellow seventh grader in the eye | |
| May.27 |
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Limits on house sizes
| May.29 |
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Fire fighters douse 40-acre brush fire 60 fire fighters took more than two hours to douse a fire on a hillside of grass golden brown from lack of rain
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| Jun.4 |
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Neglected woman dies from bedsores
| Jun.6 |
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Boy sentenced for gum wrapper spitball Jeffrey Figueroa, 13, was sentenced to 6 days in juvenile hall for hitting another boy in the eye with a gum wrapper spitball | |
| Jun.11 |
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24,000 addresses to switch ZIP codes
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Contra Costa Times lowers Sunday price
| Jun.18 |
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3-alarm grassfire burned 20 acres The fire was near Rock Spring Place and Walnut Boulevard just outside the city limits
| Jun.24 |
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Sig-alert at hwy 24 and I-680 Pickup truck hauling a trailer overturned and is blocking all lanes of the connector
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| Jul.7 |
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Hand grenade inside vehicle 18-year-old Aaron Alan Park was arrested in connection with the discovery of a military-style grenade during a traffic stop
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Male pedestrian died Man was struck by a vehicle while walking on southbound I-680
| Jul.12 |
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3 say minister molested them in 1970s The accusations have widened the criminal investigation into Gary Carson-Hull's past
| Jul.25 |
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Lab makes genome discovery A genome sequencing center had discovered nearly 1,000 previously unidentified human genes
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| Aug.2 |
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House burns again, arson suspected The house was under construction. Blaze did an estimated $500,000 in damage
| Aug.16 |
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Armed robbery Male suspect who robbed a woman at gunpoint and stole her car
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| Sep.4 |
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Chief hospital inspector fired Gilbert Martinez, 52, was fired for what the state Department of Health Services called an 'inexcusable neglect of duty'
| Sep.9 |
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80-year-old man died in accident on 680 Charley Gandola tried to enter northbound lanes by passing through a break in the concrete center divide
| Sep.14 |
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Gas station hold-up The suspect pulled out a black, semi-automatic pistol and demanded cash at Shell gas station
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| Oct.9 |
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Mother charging School District The mother of a boy who had to have eye surgery, is saying the convicted brothers were known to harass other students
| Oct.21 |
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Fire caused $400,000 worth of damage It appeared as if someone was part of the way through moving their belongings into the house
| Oct.22 |
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Suspicious briefcase at gas station The contents turned out posed no risk to the public
| Oct.31 |
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Longs Drug Stores named new CEO Warren F. Bryant, formerly a senior VP at the Kroger in Cincinnati, was elected as a new president and CEO
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| Nov.8 |
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Sections of 680 underwater Map of Interstate 680 Walnut Creek Caltrans was furiously pumping water from highways
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| Dec.5 |
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Duplex fire sent woman to hospital A two-alarm fire in an upscale neighborhood sent a woman to the hospital for smoke inhalation injuries
| Dec.16 |
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Violent home invasion 3 suspects broke into a home and tied up family members. Several family members were assaulted | |
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