SF News 100 Arrested In Oakland Following Peaceful March; Empty Hilltop Mall Looted In Richmond Tear gas was deployed Monday against protesters in both Walnut Creek and Oakland, where around 100 people were arrested, 80 of them for violating the city's 8 p.m. curfew.
SF News Court Records Suggest Alleged East Bay Predator Tried To Purchase Two Young Girls For $30K A voracious alleged sexual predator on what sounds like a self-destructive bender was arrested in December in Walnut Creek after reportedly attempting to "buy" two young girls from their mother. Investigators later found a home rigged with hidden cameras, and a trove of child porn.
SF News Amazon Brick-And-Mortar Book Store Coming To Walnut Creek In August One of the more curious aspects to Amazon’s wholesale slaughter of the brick-and-mortar retail book industry is Amazon’s apparent desire to revive the brick-and-mortar retail book industry. To that end, the
SF News Benz Rolls Through Walnut Creek Home, Residents, Driver Uninjured Everyone OK after car slams into Walnut Creek house, @PeteSuratosTV reports. https://t.co/BOCgPNSbup pic.twitter.com/mzpocdSmIb— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) April 24, 2017 Peter Zwart and family received a shock
SF News Hundreds Evacuated Following Electrical Fire on BART Large electrical fire at Walnut Creek BART. Trains halted. Crews standing by for BART electricians to secure power. #BARTIC pic.twitter.com/4qbA6yetSa— Confire PIO (@ContraCostaFire) March 5, 2017 As many as 400
SF News Transplanted New Yorker Traumatized By Alleged Walnut Creek Goose Attack A man walking in an East Bay park claims that a gaggle of geese executed a coordinated attack on him Wednesday, sending him tumbling to the ground and leaving him injured. According to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Bay's First Dunkin' Donuts (In A Long Time) Opens In Walnut Creek We learned last winter that the first Dunkin' Donuts to debut in the Bay Area would be out in Walnut Creek, and now that has come to pass. East Coast transplants who want
SF News BART Delay This Morning Caused By Police Chase And Car Crash Near Tracks In Pleasant Hill UPDATE: A car was reported on the #BART tracks, causing major delays https://t.co/ewPpdMRKh0 pic.twitter.com/YuafM31lnq— KRON 4 News (@kron4news) March 31, 2016 Yet again BART riders faced a
SF News Rental Car Used In Hayes Valley Drive-By Traced To Walnut Creek The SFPD tracked the car that was used in the quadruple homicide on Page Street ten days ago, which witnesses had suggested was a rental car, to a Hertz rental dealership in Walnut
SF News Former Walnut Creek Resident And Current Miss America Was Kicked Out Of Her Sorority A week ago, America crowned former Planned Parenthood intern and trilingual Kira Kazantsev as our "Miss." Kazantsev, who moved to New York to attend Long Island's Hofstra University, and thus represented the Empire
Arts & Entertainment Newly Crowned Miss America Is From Walnut Creek: Watch Her Rip Off The Cups Scene In 'Pitch Perfect' A former Walnut Creek resident, who was a cheerleader and class president at Las Lomas High School, was named Miss America 2015 last night. As the Merc reports, before moving to New York
SF News BART Meltdown Strands Thousands During Tuesday Night Commute BART commuters on the Pittsburg/Bay Point line had a nightmare commute Tuesday evening, after one of the transit agency's trains somehow managed to damage both the track and the third rail, disabling
SF News Freeway The Chihuahua Rescued From Interstate 680 Late last week, a terrified-looking female Chihuahua was found stranded, trembling on the center divider on an Interstate 680 overpass in Walnut Creek. Lacking treats to talk the animal down, California Highway Patrol
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Allegedly There Is Much Great Ice Cream In Walnut Creek As they are wont to do on their homepage, SFGate has spotlighted a fluff piece about a far-flung corner of the Bay Area, namely that shining bastion of suburban dystopia known as Walnut
SF News Firehouse Robbed While Firemen Were Putting Out Mount Diablo Goddammit, people. This is just sad. A Walnut Creek fire station was burgled on Sunday while all the firemen were out fighting the Morgan Fire at Mount Diablo. It was a crime of
SF News Another Limo Fire: Half Dozen Elderly Women Escape Unharmed What is happening with the local stock of limousines? Another one burst into flames on Sunday morning, very nearly causing another tragic scene, this one involving a group of elderly women heading to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chick-Fil-A Fanatics Camp Out Overnight For Free Chicken With all the fervor of a new iPhone launch, hungry chicken fans not afraid of Chick-Fil-A's homophobic stigma camped out at the chain's new Walnut Creek location overnight last night in hopes of
SF News Walnut Creek Begs George Lucas to Build Studio There The other week told you about how George Lucas, finally fed up with the rich Marin NIMBYs bitching about his LucasArts expansion plans in Lucas Valley, gave up on his plans to build
SF News Gloria Steinem: 'Religious, Economic Extremists Have Taken Over GOP...Snooki Sucks' On Monday night, the Marriott Hotel in Walnut Creek hosted the 2012 East Bay Women's Conference featuring feminist and political icon Gloria Steinem. During the conference, which culminated in her standing ovation-causing "The
SF News Man Molests Woman Near Pleasant Hill BART Station A 25-year-old woman walking on Oak Road near Treat Boulevard was grabbed by a man on Wednesday afternoon. The man, it seems, had been following her. As soon as she turned around, he
SF News Not a Joke: Occupy Walnut Creek Launches Tomorrow Not wanting to feel left out, Walnut Creek is going to get its very own Occupy protest on Wednesday, where literally dozens 20 people will gather at the corner of Mt. Diablo Boulevard
SF News Giants Memorabilia Thief Arrested at Walnut Creek Motel 6 After a careless man lost his Hyundai full of Willie McCovey-signed baseball gear outside of a Walnut Creek McDonald's on Monday, authorities in the East Bay tracked down and arrested the caught-on-camera thief
SF News Say It Ain't So!: Home of Parents of Dead Walnut Creek Teen Burglarized While They Were At Memorial We had no idea Walnut Creek life could be so brutal: While attending the memorial service last night for their teenage son Matthew Miller, who was killed last weekend while rafting with friend
SF News Walnut Creek Police Officer Arrested For Having Sex With Minor According to CBS 5, a Walnut Creek police officer was pinched for having sex with an underage girl. "Officer Shawn Wallace was arrested February 3rd and was booked into the Contra Costa County
SF News Buena Vista Elementary Evacuated After Bomb Scare Buena Vista Elementary in Walnut Creek (2355 San Juan Avenue Walnut Creek) as been evacuated after a bomb scare or suspicious package was found at the school. We'll update as soon as we
