Ledger Dispatch - Fri Jul 03

Contra Costa County Fire District Chief Keith Richter is photographed in Concord, Calif.

Contra Costa Times - Fri Jul 03

Police are searching for a missing 61-year-old man, last seen in Antioch, who's family says he suffers from dementia.

Ledger Dispatch - Fri Jul 03

Chuck Baker grows pears on land his family has worked since 1851 and has a farmer's sensitivity to the plagues of modern agriculture - pesticide regulations, the intrusive hand of federal regulators, the threat to private property posed by wetlands restoration - and, most of all, the need for water.