Lafayette

A retired FBI agent arrested Friday near his home in Lafayette accepted more than more than $200,000 in cash bribes and gifts in exchange for funneling sensitive information to Armenian organized crime, federal prosecutors said. Babak Broumand, who retired from the FBI last year after 20 years as a special agent, was arrested by special agents with the FBI and…

At least one person was transported to a hospital after crashing into a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District fire engine on a state Highway 24 off-ramp in Lafayette late Monday night, according to fire officials. The engine struck was part of a team of firefighters still working an earlier traffic collision, Fire Captain George Laing said. It was hit…

Officials from the city of Lafayette are making plans to rid the area of a surprising problem—aggressive feral pigs. Cheryl Hurd reports.

Officials from the city of Lafayette are making plans to rid the area of a surprising problem—aggressive feral pigs.

The City of Lafayette has tallied up its losses from PG&E’s power shutoff and says the utility should get ready to pay up.

PG&E acknowledges in reports filed with state regulators Monday that its equipment was involved in sparking separate fires on both sides of Highway 24 in Lafayette, but noted the fires were not in high fire threat areas subject to Sunday’s massive power shutoff.

Two “rapidly expanding” fires on each side of state Highway 24 in Lafayette prompted evacuations Sunday, according to a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman. Melissa Colorado reports.

Power was restored to hundreds in Lafayette Monday afternoon after PG&E crews finished repairing a line crossing Highway 24 that had been knocked down by a crane accident earlier in the day.

Power was restored to hundreds in Lafayette Monday afternoon after PG&E crews finished repairing a line crossing Highway 24 that had been knocked down by a crane accident earlier in the day. Thom Jensen reports.

A Louisiana district judge has found a public defender in contempt of court after he filmed a bailiff duct-taping a defendant’s mouth during a sentencing hearing this month. State District Judge Marilyn Castle barred attorney Michael Gregory from bringing a cellphone into the 15th Judicial District court building or from using anyone else’s cellphone in the courthouse for six months,...

The City of Piedmont is giving out information about – and gathering public input on – a prospective public safety camera program, and a meeting Tuesday is planned as a platform for information flowing in both directions.

A 911 dispatcher in Lafayette, Indiana, has earned herself extra credit with her bosses after she took the time to aid a young caller seeking help with his homework, NBC News reported. Antonia Bundy, who works for the Lafayette Police Department, answered a call earlier this month from a boy who told her he “had a really bad day” and...

Restaurants in Baltimore are now officially barred from including sodas and other sugary drinks on kids’ menus, according to a city ordinance that went into effect Wednesday. Baltimore is now the biggest U.S. city and the first on the East Coast to pass this kind of measure, said Shawn McIntosh, director of the Sugar Free Kids Maryland advocacy group. Seven...

The fate of a crosses memorial that covers the hills across the street from the Lafayette BART station is suddenly in limbo.

A woman was hit by a vehicle and killed Wednesday on westbound State Route 24 in Lafayette, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Navigation apps are triggering traffic headaches in some Bay Area neighborhoods, prompting city officials to craft unique countermeasures in hopes of quelling the issue.

Highlands Elementary School in Concord stands to lose about half of its students and eliminate at least 15 teaching positions if a controversial proposal to split the Mt. Diablo Unified School District is successful, according to the school’s principal.

Forecasters say rain and cold temperatures will continue most of Friday in the San Francisco Bay Area before drying out and warming up on Saturday.

The FBI’s San Francisco Division is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the return of a submachine gun and other items that were stolen in January out of an agent’s car somewhere in Contra Costa County.