Concord News

A Concord man, 33, was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance at 1:38 a.m. in the 3600 block of Northwood Drive.

A suspected drug dealer and a Concord detective who was attempting to apprehend him were both hit by a vehicle and injured Thursday afternoon, according to police.

Cool Concord cars will be on display Thursday, July 2, as part of the Thursday Music and Market series in Todos Santos Plaza in downtown Concord.

A young driver backed over a fire hydrant in the Park & Shop center in Concord on Tuesday evening.

Power was restored to about 4,000 PG&E customers in Concord Sunday night, and crews were working on bringing electricity back for 400 people in Pittsburg.

CONCORD, Calif. - Thirty-three people, including more than two dozen Sea Scouts, have been rescued from a boat that began taking on water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta near Concord.

Two children were injured Sunday in a fire that broke out in the kitchen of a Concord home, a fire district spokeswoman said.

PoliceA released a sketch of a man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old boy on the afternoon of June 19 in a culvert near Clayton City Hall.

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A 31-year-old man was shot in the chest while standing on a sidewalk Sunday afternoon, according to Concord police.

In response to President Obama's call for national day of health care, the United Democratic Campaign office in Concord, working with Organizing for America has organized a free community health fair that will feature local health resources and guests Senator Mark DeSaulnier and Supervisor Susan Bonilla.

The new site is located at http://www.concordcacreditrpairservices.com . This web site is being launched by Diablo Credit Repair, which is owned, operated, and managed by Jeff Weidner.

A motorcyclist who was killed in a crash on state Highway 4 near Concord Monday night has been identified as 18-year-old Martinez resident Joseph Scalise, a Contra Costa County deputy coroner said today.

A man resembling a certain swashbuckling pirate impersonator robbed a man walking along Clayton Road Monday afternoon.

Commuter: I just have to share this story about tickets that many of us ACE train commuters received for not having a front license plate.

The City Council is set to vote Monday on budget cuts that would close two police field offices, cut back on public works maintenance and leave the city with about 40 fewer employees.

A man suspected of robbing a Concord bank Friday was arrested a short time later in Pittsburg.

According to the Contra Costa County coronera TMs office, the first person in the county to die with swine flu was 9-year-old Concord resident Karen Perez.

Thumbtacked to the wall behind Bebita Montesinos-Vaughan's desk at Pittsburg's Foothill Elementary are 21 pieces of paper with colorfully sketched stick-figure drawings and short narratives where fifth-graders expressed suenos - or dreams - of one day being pediatricians, teachers and television stars.

The old concrete sewer pipe is about 33 years old, eight years past the normal useful life for such a pipe.