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Byron Wilkes
Reporter
My name is Byron Wilkes and I'm a UC Berkeley graduate student and journalist originally from Mississippi. Before graduating from Middle Tennessee State University in 2009, I was community news editor, opinions editor and editor in chief for the student paper, Sidelines. From there I worked at The Meridian Star in Meridian, Miss., covering the crime and education beats as well as occasional features.
I cover the crime beat for Richmond Confidential currently. If you have any tips on crimes that have occurred recently or other events you feel pertinent to Richmond Confidential, don't hesitant to send me an email.
One month into the state’s implementation of a major prison realignment, Contra Costa County’s parolee and inmate numbers are much higher than projected. Although the...
An apparent street race in Richmond early Sunday morning left a teenaged driver dead and another man in handcuffs. At 1:15 a.m. Sunday, police officers...
The Richmond Fire Department is working to determine the cause of an in-home explosion that happened early Tuesday morning. Chief Michael Banks said that firefighters...
Artist cj grossman, a new resident of Richmond, works mostly in storybook illustration and small altars. For the SOMArts Gallery’s “Day of the Dead: Illuminations”...
The Kennedy High Eagles played hard Saturday, but couldn’t put up the defense needed to keep the Saint Mary’s College High School Panthers down. The...
Continued overcrowding in California’s state prisons brought about a 2010 Supreme Court ruling that the state’s efforts to cram in more prisoners constituted cruel and...
A 30-year-old woman was found dead in a local restaurant Tuesday night in what police are investigating as a homicide. Officers responding to a 7:30...
Richmond residents began stepping forward Thursday night at the Nevin Community Center as part of a new initiative to prevent gun violence. One of them...
