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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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