Arts & Entertainment Walnut Creek Native Becomes First Person Ever to Ski Down the North Face of Mount Everest Former Walnut Creek resident Jim Morrison just skied about 30,000 feet down the north face of Mount Everest, becoming the first person ever to ski down Everest’s steepest and most challenging route, the Hornbein Couloir.
SF News Saturday Links: A Beleaguered Benioff Retracts, Apologizes for National Guard Remarks A Michigan woman used ChatGBT to pick her winning Powerball numbers; a prolific list of No King’s rallies across the Bay Area is provided within; and Marc Benioff has officially retracted his National Guard comments.
SF News Walnut Creek Man Charged In Murder of Wife and Mother-in-Law A 43-year-old Walnut Creek man with an alleged history of domestic violence has now been charged with the murder of his wife and mother-in-law in the home that the three shared last week.
SF News Double Homicide Shocks Walnut Creek, Two Women Found Dead Inside Home Two women who were apparently related to one another were found dead inside a Walnut Creek home late Thursday night, and police are investigating the matter as a double homicide.
Arts & Entertainment Field Notes: Recology AIR 35th, Aquatic Park Doc, Rodin with Pipe Organ, and Teen Chase Film In this week’s Field Notes: a live pipe organ at Legion of Honor, stone legacy in Mill Valley, Recology’s Artist in Residence exhibit, and an Aquatic Park doc. Also: Amy Tan with Christian Cooper, teen film 'The Jar', and Sacramento’s music archive.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Debuts Its First East Bay Location, In Walnut Creek Stalwart San Francisco Italian-American restaurant Original Joe's has just opened a huge new location in Walnut Creek, and the ribbon-cutting was Thursday morning.
SF News Lisa Ling Says Sister Laura’s 2009 Capture Was Planned, Perhaps So Kim Jong Il Could Meet Bill Clinton During a recent talk in Walnut Creek, acclaimed journalist Lisa Ling revisited the 2009 capture of her sister Laura and fellow journalist Euna Lee in North Korea while working for SF-based Current TV. Ling says North Korea planned it from the start.
Business & Tech Walnut Creek-Based Canned Foods Giant Del Monte Files for Bankruptcy, Hopes for New Owner Yes, Del Monte Foods is based in Walnut Creek, but it may not be for much longer, as the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and it seems like Trump’s steel tariffs had a lot to do with this.
SF News Walnut Creek Teacher Facing Rape Charges for Alleged Sex With Teen Student A 43-year-old Walnut Creek teacher has been charged with the rape, unlawful sexual intercourse, and assault of a student, and it does not help his case that he admitted to these things on a phone call that police had secretly wiretapped.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Harvey Milk Plaza Redesign to Break Ground in 2026 The funeral for former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband took place today — while their accused killer appeared in court; someone died after falling off a cliff near Devil’s Slide; and the Harvey Milk Plaza revamp is scheduled to start in 2026.
SF News Saturday Links: At Tahoe Trial, Former Lover Says Ex-MLB Player Admitted to Shooting Wife’s Mom A Florida man nabbed at SFO was convicted of wire fraud after posing as a flight attendant to score free flights; the CA Farm Bureau is condemning ICE raids targeting farmworkers; and the Tahoe murder trial of ex-MLB player Daniel Serafini has brought new details to light.
Arts & Entertainment Notable Humans: Walnut Creek Teen’s ‘Key Future News’ Aims To Empower Gen Z This week's notable humans include San Rafael resident, retired SFFD lieutenant, and dedicated volunteer John Chung; San Francisco author and historian Beth Winegarner whose work aims to remember the forgotten; and Walnut Creek's Anya Gupta, 16-year-old founder of Key Future News.
Bay Area Sports Walnut Creek Native Becomes Youngest American Ever to Win Gold Medal in Wrestling 20-year-old Walnut Creek product Amit Elor just became the youngest American ever — man or woman— to win an Olympic Gold Medal in wrestling, after Tuesday’s gold medal win was her 41st consecutive victory.
SF News Hit-and-Run Disrupts Walnut Creek Farmers’ Market; Two Critically Injured, Suspect Arrested An early Sunday morning hit-and-run sent two people to the hospital with critical injuries and canceled this weekend's Walnut Creek Farmers’ Market, but the suspect driver has been arrested, and the market will return as usual next Sunday.
SF News Guy In ‘White Power’ T-Shirt With Swastika Tries to Hijack Walnut Creek City Council Meeting With Antisemitic Rant Walnut Creek is one of many cities that ended remote public comment because of racist Zoombombs, so one of the racist Zoombombers showed up in person at Tuesday’s meeting in hopes of blaming it all on Jewish people.
Business & Tech Four More East Bay Chain Hotels Being Surrendered to Lenders In Nationwide Loan Default This is not just a Bay Area “doom loop” story, as Dallas-based Ashford Hospitality Trust is handing back the keys to 19 U.S. hotels, four of which are in Oakland, Newark, and Walnut Creek.
SF News Ninth Grader Stabbed at Walnut Creek High School, Another Student in Custody A ninth grade girl was stabbed Tuesday at Walnut Creek’s Northgate High School, and while another ninth-grader is in custody on attempted murder and mayhem charges, a vice principal at the school is being praised for his swift intervention.
SF News Senior Care Worker Charged With Elder Abuse After 94-Year-Old Man Dies From Drinking Cleaning Fluid A San Pablo woman has been charged with felony elder abuse after a resident at the Atria Senior Living facility in Walnut Creek died from drinking cleaning fluid, in a death that the facility allegedly first attempted to blame on Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
SF News Same East Bay Suspect Allegedly Steals Two BMWs From Different Dealerships In a Week, Crashes One of Them An alleged identity fraud scammer managed to get two different East Bay dealerships to sell him BMWs with fake ID, but promptly crashed one of the two.
SF News Walnut Creek Nordstrom Flash-Mob Suspects Once Again Allowed To Walk Free After Computer Snafu In the second accidental suspect release in two weeks, the mere three suspects arrested in the 80-member flash-mob Nordstrom heist are all released, but two of them apparently shouldn’t have been.
SF News Walnut Creek Woman Who Serves on State Medical Board Stalked By Rabid Anti-Vaxxers Kristina Lawson, a former mayor of Walnut Creek, chief executive at a law firm, and president of the Medical Board of California, says she has been being stalked and harassed by an anti-vaccine misinformation group — several members of which cornered her in a parking garage to "interview" her.
SF News Contra Costa Sheriff May Have 'Accidentally Released' Nordstrom Flash-Mob Theft Suspect The Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office is “investigating the circumstances” around the release of a Nordstrom ransacking suspect, but the suspect’s mother puts it more bluntly, saying "He was accidentally released from jail."
SF News Three Suspects Arrested In Walnut Creek Nordstrom Looting That Involved 80 Burglars Just a day after San Francisco's spree of rampant looting, the Nordstrom in Walnut Creek's Broadway Plaza saw over six dozen people plunder the luxury goods store last night.
SF News Remains of 37-Year-Old Walnut Creek Woman Missing Since June Found In Desert Near Twentynine Palms San Bernardino County authorities have identified skeletal remains they discovered in the desert outside Twentynine as those of 37-year-old Erika Ashley Lloyd. The remains were found by hikers on January 31, and Lloyd had been missing since June 16, 2020.
SF News Texas Anti-Abortion Group Camped Out at Walnut Creek Planned Parenthood Accused Of Pepper-Spraying Counter-Protesters The group 40 Days for Life group is currently in the middle of its fall push to “end abortion locally through prayer and fasting," but some armed guards they recently hired allegedly pepper-sprayed counter-protesters outside a Walnut Creek clinic.
