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"When we first moved to Antioch there were only about 20,000 people living in the area," Boyd said.

A car crashed into the side of an empty house this evening, causing significant damage to the structure, police said.

A prosecutor asked jurors Tuesday to convict two men of murder charges for allegedly killing a drug dealer in Antioch four years ago and then killing an innocent woman in Oakland because she was a potential witness to the crime.

Never again. Not in this church. Not in any church or place of worship. Not in this city.

A 20-year-old man who was shot outside a Pizza Hut restaurant in Antioch on Wednesday is in stable condition at a local hospital this afternoon, police said.

Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, held captive for 18 years in a ramshackle backyard compound, is seen cooking with her sister and mother and riding horses in recently shot home videos set to air on ABC Friday.

Residents here are being encouraged to sift through discarded items more carefully before putting them to the curb.

It's 6 o'clock, and a small stream of families and individuals begins to warm up the warehouse space cooled by an open delivery door in an Antioch warehouse tucked behind a flooring store.

Police were investigating a shooting Wednesday evening in front of a pizzeria that left one person in critical condition.

In 2000 the local pharmacist decided she wanted to write a historical romance that took place in her hometown.

ONE OF THE primary responsibilities of local government is to ensure that its residents are getting the best price available for mandated services.

Antioch police are searching for a man who tried to abduct a five-year old girl from in front of her home Monday afternoon.

The attempted kidnapping happened shortly before 6 p.m. Monday at a home on the 500 block of West 19th Street, said Antioch police Lt.

Friends and family members are remembering former Mayor Pete Lopez as a charismatic, passionate fan of the community he lived in and served for decades.

After completing its Phase I Pilot Project, the City of Antioch has begun Phase II of its $4.65 million Building and Street Light Energy Efficient Retrofit Project.

To keep Antioch schools focused on reading, writing and arithmetic, Donald Gill has been implementing his own set of the three R's: Relationships, relationships, relationships.

Pre-construction activities for the seismic retrofit of the Antioch Bridge on State Route 160 are scheduled to begin Monday, March 1. The bridge connects Antioch in eastern Contra Costa County with Sherman Island in Sacramento County.

City officials concede a new BART station will not be built at their desired location, but they remain adamant that efforts to roll the trains even farther into East Contra Costa County continue.

Antioch's school board agreed Friday to require uniforms for all grades, becoming the first public school district in the East Bay to make such a fashion statement at the high school level.

A 20-year-old man arrested in a San Rafael pimping investigation has been sentenced to 18 months in county jail, the district attorney's office said.