El Sobrante News

African Immigrants Social and Cultural Services is holding an event Saturday to raise money to bring educational services to rural Tanzania.

Design of the Bruce King Memorial Dog Park should begin soon, following the El Cerrito City Council's approval of funding and location and making the name official.

Members of a task force investigating more than 20 recent vehicle fires in Contra Costa County aren't yet ready to say the two fires discovered Tuesday night into Friday morning are related to the other vehicles that have caught fire in the area.

A pair of cars found torched overnight are being investigated as arsons, but they have not yet been linked to a string of car fires that plagued West Contra Costa County over the past two weeks.

Four cars were found torched overnight, and authorities are investigating whether the fires are linked to a string of vehicle arsons in the area that destroyed 16 cars over a seven-day stretch last week, the Contra Costa Fire District said.

Investigators say automobile fires over the weekend in El Sobrante and suburban Richmond match the pattern of the arsonist who earlier scorched 12 vehicles in the same area.

A mugging victim is questioning the response time by the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department, saying it took deputies 45 minutes to show up after calling 9-1-1. The woman said the attack happened in a parking near a bar and hotel in Port Costa early Sunday morning.

Kim Uldricks thinks twice about parking on the street these days. "I do worry. I have not lived here for so many years, but I have always thought this was a safe neighborhood," said Uldricks, who lives on Morningside Drive in suburban Richmond, up the street from De Anza High School.

At about 8:30 p.m. officers responded to the Teen Center on Buchanan Street on reports of a man in his 20's, wearing a light blue T-shirt, who was going into and out of the restroom and telling kids his genitals were bleeding and asking them to help him.

English teacher Janet Headington loves to share her passion for learning with her students at Hercules High School, providing them with an experience that often goes outside the classroom.

A 38-year-old man was killed and another was seriously wounded Tuesday night in a shooting in the Iron Triangle neighborhood.

Police are increasing patrols after an arsonist set another car on fire in Contra Costa County.

An arsonist continues to terrorize people in Richmond and El Sobrante by torching their cars.

Three vehicle fires were ignited between Saturday night and Sunday in the same El-Sobrante Richmond area where six fires torched 11 vehicles last week.

Three more vehicles have been torched in an area of Contra Costa County that has already seen 11 vehicles go up in flames.

For a second time this week, the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office is investigating a string of vehicle fires.

Contra Costa Sheriff's are looking for an arsonist who set 3 cars on fire last night in the El Sobrante and Richmond areas.

Jan Yale and the network of volunteers her Pomeranian Rescue Group has developed have placed more than 400 Pomeranians in loving homes over the past 14 years, and still the need to find more interim and permanent households for the small dogs keeps growing.

Arson investigators are asking for the public's help in finding the person or people responsible for setting 12 vehicles on fire in Richmond and El Sobrante early Wednesday morning.

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District is looking for your help in finding the person or people who set a dozen vehicles on fire early Wednesday morning.