Rodeo News

A 19-year-old Walnut Creek man will be sentenced to seven years in prison for fatally stabbing a Hercules High School student at a summer house party where tensions between teens from different areas of Contra Costa County escalated to violence.

Some Hercules residents want the City Council to adopt an ordinance that would limit the number of people who can attend a house party, to prevent a recurrence of a recent gathering of several hundred on Turquoise Drive that ended with two people shot.

RODEO, Calif. a " A natural gas leak is the likely cause of an explosion at a Rodeo apartment complex that injured three.Authorities say the blast at the Bayo Vista public housing complex blew the wall off a vacant apartment and injured two adults and a 12-year-old child in an adjacent unit.

A firefighters' salary-and-benefits package is on the agenda of Wednesday's board meeting of the Rodeo-Hercules Fire District.

Fire officials are investigating the cause of an explosion and fire that ripped through an apartment building near unincorporated Rodeo early this morning, a dispatcher with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District said.

A natural gas explosion tore through an apartment building early this morning, causing minor injuries and drawing attention from fire investigators as suspicious, the Contra Costa Fire District said.

Police say a man was shot through the hand at a house party Sunday evening. The 61-year-old man was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he was listed in stable condition on Sunday night.

The Rodeo-Hercules Fire District board has condemned member Bill Prather over an alleged discriminatory remark against women that someone reported overhearing in a bar.

The mean-spirited would call it Darwinism at work. A suspected thief got the shock of his life after apparently trying to steal copper.

Air Liquidea s latest large-scale hydrogen production unit recently began operations on the site of ConocoPhillipsa San Francisco refinery in Rodeo, California, on the north eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay.

A Contra Costa sheriff's deputy was treated for minor injuries Monday night after a stolen car collided with his patrol vehicle during a chase.

A man firing a handgun indiscriminately in front of a weekend house party sent two people to the hospital, Hercules police said Monday, but nobody will identify the gunman.

A manager at a bulk fuel terminal in Contra Costa County pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to causing another person to tamper with or make ineffective a vapor recovery monitoring device.

Eight women begin their quest to earn the Miss Rodeo California 2010 crown Tuesday.

LIFE OR DEATH: Pete rushes Violet to the hospital where Addison fights to save her on the season premiere of "Private Practice" at 10 p.m. on ABC.

As the proposed Contra Costa Pipeline Project pushes for approval, Pinole is emerging as a leading skeptic among communities along the pipeline's path.

Caitlin Carnes, a 17-year-old high school senior, has the "it" factor those in the TV biz consider essential to keep viewers hooked.

The Contra Costa County coroner's office has identified four people who died in a wave of violence in Richmond over the weekend, including a carjacking suspect killed in a shootout with police.

Elected officials and community leaders in Richmond are once again debating how best to respond to gun violence after a rash of shootings over the weekend claimed five lives.

A man and woman parked at a gas station were killed Friday evening when they were fired upon by multiple shooters, police said.