A woman who was killed when a car struck her while she was riding her bicycle in Pleasanton Sunday afternoon has been identified by the Alameda County coroner's bureau as 58-year-old Diana Hersevoort.
A new cellphone app launched by fire departments throughout Contra Costa County this week is designed to give everyday citizens a chance to save lives.
The deaths of a man and teenage girl whose bodies were found inside a Newark motel room on Friday appear to have been the result of either a murder-suicide or a double suicide, police said.