Nick Schou writes in the LA Times about reporter Gary Webb's expose, 10 years ago, of the CIA's link to contra drug smuggling, and the Establishment Media's collective reaction to the story - which ...

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif. (KRON) — The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office will no longer file charges against most people arrested for being in possession of a small amount of drugs.

MARTINEZ, Calif. - Low-level drug offenders will no longer be prosecuted in Contra Costa County, District Attorney Diana Becton said Thursday. "They take up a tremendous amount of resources," Becton ...

MARTINEZ — A 35-year-old man was hospitalized for an infection in his leg days before he was found dead in the bunk of his Contra Costa jail cell from a methamphetamine and fentanyl overdose, a ...

MARTINEZ — In an effort to steer people with drug addictions toward treatment instead of jail, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office will stop charging most people arrested or cited for ...

MARTINEZ (CBS SF) -- Most people arrested or cited in Contra Costa County for possession of a small amount of drugs and other non-violent misdemeanor infractions will no longer have charges filed ...

MARTINEZ (CBS SF) -- The Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office has received a $408,853 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to buy a liquid chromatography mass spectrometer enabling ...

MARTINEZ — In an effort to steer people with drug addictions toward treatment instead of jail, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office will stop charging most people arrested or cited for ...