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A 17-year-old boy was killed Tuesday morning in the Contra Costa County community of North Richmond, sheriff’s officials said.

A hiker discovered a man’s body in a remote part of John Henry Johnson Park south of Pittsburg on Thursday, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.

Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies with the marine patrol unit are searching for a boater who went missing near Discovery Bay Sunday night.

A vigil will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday for the victim in an unsolved 1996 strangulation case in the unincorporated town of Crockett.

A Rodeo man has been booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on $5.5 million bail on suspicion of sex offenses involving children, according to Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies.

Sheriff’s deputies found the body of a transient woman Tuesday morning in a campsite she was apparently living in near the Byron Airport in unincorporated Contra Costa County.

One family is convinced it’s a hate crime. Contra Costa County sheriff’s officials say it’s not.

Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputies are trying to establish whether the death Thursday night of one man in unincorporated Bay Point and the assault of a second man a short distance away are connected, and have arrested two men as suspects in the second, non-fatal assault, a sheriff’s spokesman said.

The man killed Friday in what sheriff’s investigators believe was a dispute between two acquaintances in the unincorporated Contra Costa County community of Pacheco has been identified as 29-year-old Erick Ousey of Pacheco.

A woman who was found lying on a sidewalk in Bay Point early Sunday morning has been pronounced dead, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.

The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an alleged rape attempt that occurred near a BART station Thursday afternoon. A woman was reportedly approached by a man at the Pittsburg/Bay Point station and when they got off the train, he exposed himself and asked her to perform a sexual act on him, officials said.

A Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 41-year-old Discovery Bay man who had fired a shot at him after a foot pursuit led to a struggle between the two in unincorporated Pacheco Wednesday morning, sheriff’s officials said.

A Contra Costa County family is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect or suspects in a woman’s killing, county sheriff’s officials said.

A man now charged with two counts of murder for the deaths of two small children in a crash last week involving a stolen truck made his initial court appearance Monday in Martinez, Contra Costa County prosecutors said.

Murder charges were filed Friday in Contra Costa County Superior Court against a Pittsburg man who allegedly stole a truck that was involved in a collision that killed a 4-year-old girl, according to sheriff’s officials.

A 57-year-old man has been taken into custody on suspicion of being connected to a shooting in unincorporated Martinez that ended with the death of a 58-year-old woman, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department.

Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office detectives seized about 600 marijuana plants while serving a search warrant Wednesday in Discovery Bay.

Residents of the unincorporated Contra Costa County community of Blackhawk near Danville are offering a reward of $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of suspects connected to a string of burglaries in the community, sheriff’s officials said Monday.

A 19-year-old Antioch man has been arrested in the shooting death of a Discovery Bay man last weekend, Contra Costa County Sheriff’s officials said.

Two male juveniles have been arrested in connection to a sexual assault investigation involving a female juvenile victim, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.