Danville, San Ramon consider options for buying electricity
DANVILLE — Residents will have a chance to weigh in next week on a plan that could change how they get their electricity. Danville and San Ramon, along with Contra Costa County and other East Bay...
View ArticlePolice say second suspect in hash lab case surrenders
WALNUT CREEK -- An Oakland man was arrested and booked into County Jail Wednesday after turning himself in in connection with a hash-oil operation that led to a butane-fueled apartment fire more than a...
View ArticleFirefighters rescue 2 from burning apartment
Fast-acting Norwood firefighters are being credited with saving the lives of two people who were pulled from the second floor of a burning apartment early yesterday morning, fire officials said....
View ArticleSheriff: Vail man burned in hash oil explosion faces felony charges
( | ) Authorities in Eagle County say a 24-year-old man faces felony charges after sustaining second-degree burns on 25 percent of his body in an...
View ArticleApartment blaze sends 3 firefighters to hospital
It took the Houston Fire Department about two hours to extinguish a blaze that gutted at least 60 units at a northwest-side apartment complex and sent three firefighters to the hospital. The blaze...
View ArticleFire official: 2 critically burned in reported San Francisco Bay Area...
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) — Fire official: 2 critically burned in reported San Francisco Bay Area...
View ArticleSeattle Field Division – Spokane Man Sentenced for Arson, Resulting from...
(Source: ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Spokane Man Sentenced for Arson Resulting from Butane Hash Oil Explosion SPOKANE, Wash. - On March 3, 2015, Donnivan Whitcher of...
View ArticleWoman Mauled By Pet Pit Bull In San Francisco Bay Area Home
PINOLE, Calif. (AP) — A 40-year-old woman in the San Francisco Bay Area was severely mauled by her family pit bull. Pinole Battalion Chief Steve Akre tells the Contra Costa Times newspaper...
View ArticleSpokane Man Sentenced for Arson Resulting from Butane Hash Oil Explosion (ATF...
(Source: ATF - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Spokane Man Sentenced for Arson Resulting from Butane Hash Oil Explosion SPOKANE, Wash. - On March 3, 2015, Donnivan Whitcher of...
View ArticlePit bull badly mauls woman at San Francisco Bay Area home
PINOLE, Calif. (AP) — A 40-year-old woman in the San Francisco Bay Area was severely mauled by her family pit bull. Pinole...
View ArticlePG&E to remove lead paint on transmission towers in Contra Costa, Alameda...
ANTIOCH — The Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that it will end the use of lead-based paint on transmission towers and will begin the removal process on more than 6,000 towers this summer....
View ArticleArson suspect targeted groomsmen who didn’t support failed marriage
UPDATE: Walnut Creek suspect denies arsons against groomsmen in jailhouse interview https://t.co/9zsbtvHhjl @mgafni pic.twitter.com/1bUzPpa5Ig — Contra Costa Times (@CCTimes) January 6, 2016 MARTINEZ,...
View ArticlePrice of pot: Hash oil brewing explosions on the rise
Law-enforcement authorities and substance abuse experts agree that hash oil has been...
View ArticleThree hospitalized after fire breaks out in Coconut Creek apartment
A man was airlifted to a hospital's burn unit and two others were being treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at a Coconut Creek apartment building Friday. When firefighters arrived at...
View ArticleDiscarded cigarette suspected in blaze at Walnut Creek apartments
A two-alarm fire that may have been caused by an unattended smoldering cigarette heavily damaged or destroyed six...
View ArticleMan injured when suspected hash-oil lab blows up in Santa Rosa
A man was injured after a suspected butane hash-oil lab exploded in a shed in Santa Rosa, prompting the evacuation of nearby homes and an apartment complex, officials said Friday. Officers arrived on...
View ArticleDubai skyscraper catches fire, though no one killed in blaze
Share PhotoReddit✉ This photo provided by Jose Vicente shows flames coming from a high rise tower in Dubai's marina district Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. The fire broke out early Saturday in the Torch...
View ArticleThe Latest: 9 bodies recovered from burned Oakland warehouse
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Latest on a deadly fire in a converted warehouse in Oakland, California (all times local): 6:30 p.m. Authorities say nine bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a...
View ArticleFire races up high-rise Dubai tower, but claims no lives
One of the world's tallest residential towers caught fire early Saturday in Dubai's Marina district, sending hundreds of residents pouring into the streets as bright yellow flames raged several stories...
View ArticleHillsborough real estate transactions for Jan. 30Hillsborough real estate...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 4:58pm APOLLO BEACH Related News/Archive 1236 Acappella Ln., to Cary B. Sappington & Ellen N. Sappington by Richard L. George & Vernita George, $599,000, 11-19-2014....
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