Recently added articles from Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA):
Forgotten theater gets its due in `Day of Battle'.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Thomas Peele "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944" by Rick Atkinson; Henry Holt and Co. ($35) ___ Italy, where 23,501 Americans and an estimated 48,000 Germans died in battle, is the forgotten theater of World War II. ...
Author finds person behind the scandal.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Ann Tatko-Peterson WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ Call it intrigue or curiosity. Credit the mystery and unanswered questions. Maybe even attribute it to the book's setting, which greeted the author every morning from her front porch. The bottom line is still the ...
Cal has lofty ranking, now must deal with it.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Jonathan Okanes Oct. 10--BERKELEY -- With the No. 2 team in the country, it may be hard for Cal fans not to fantasize about the future. But what's important is to make sure the players don't. Old Blues can rest easy, says middle linebacker Worrell Williams. ...
Fourth man charged in kidnapping, torture: OAKLAND: Members of Your Black Muslim Bakery held in case, police say DNA on knife links latest suspect.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Harry Harris and Paul Rosynsky Oct. 10--DNA recovered from a knife used in the May kidnapping and torture of two women led to a fourth member of Your Black Muslim Bakery being charged Tuesday in the case, authorities said. Yusuf Bey V, 20, was linked to the ...
Drug suspect yet to be charged: PLEASANTON: Man arrested twice on suspicion of supplying juveniles with narcotics.
Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Roman Gokhman Oct. 10--A Pleasanton man who was twice arrested in August on suspicion of supplying juveniles with drugs, and with possession of child pornography, has not had charges filed against him from the second arrest. Paul Harrold White, 29, was first ...