Barron Edwards, a former Richmond high school football coach is charged with 39 felonies in an amended criminal complaint filed by the Contra Costa District Attorney's Office.

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After being eyed for estate-style homes the past two decades, roughly 1,900 acres of Contra Costa hills in the northeast shadow of Mount Diablo are poised to be preserved as open space and one day turned into a regional park.  
 
 
Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown made unconscionable changes to the disclosure law last week by slipping language into one of 15 state budget bills.

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Contra Costa County grand jury finds disparities in school solar projects

Group finds four school districts and community college district used different assumptions, varied in how they are spending and reporting savings and have not shared information with each other.  
Purdy: San Jose takes big swing at Major League Baseball

After waiting four years for commissioner Bud Selig to rule on territorial rights issue with San Francisco Giants, city of San Jose files antitrust suit against MLB.

 San Jose sues MLB over stalled Oakland A's move

 San Jose officials explain decision to sue MLB 

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'Fruitvale Station' private screening to be held in Oakland

'Fruitvale Station' traces Oscar Grant's last day alive before he was shot by a BART police officer in 2009. The critically-acclaimed film opens in theaters July 12. 

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