Walnut Creek

...is a Chronicle feature in which Bay Area teenagers can tell us what's on their minds. Olivia Martin is a student at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek. Send your feedback to us through our online form at sfgate.com/chronicle/submissions/#1.

In this article: Las Lomas High School

...in-law Aaron and Alison Riche of San Jose, CA; son and daughter in-law Ben and Leslie Zuffi of San Jose, CA; daughter Tamara Zuffi of Walnut Creek, CA; grand-daughters Summer and Brooklyn Riche and Siena Zuffi; father- and mother in-law...

In this article: California, San Jose, God, 9th Infantry Division, Cancer, and Tim Rice

The San Mateo County coroner's office has identified 49-year-old Matthew Runte, of Walnut Creek, as the man who died Friday evening after his boat capsized off the coast of Half Moon Bay. Runte was one of two men on a 34-foot sailboat...

In this article: Half Moon Bay, National Weather Service, and Moss Beach

"We've been busy since we opened at 4 a.m.," he said in an afternoon interview. At the Broadway Plaza shopping center in downtown Walnut Creek, retired Pebble Beach businessman Rich Basham joined the throng listening to holiday music...

In this article: San Francisco and Union Square

The following are excerpts from the Walnut Creek Police Department log: Saturday, Oct. 31 THEFT - A wallet was reported stolen from an office between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of South Main Street. BURGLARY - Dresses were...

...are threatened. EPA biologists also found the variegate darter, which is common in Ohio but was last seen in Walnut Creek (also known as Little Walnut Creek) in 1955. Their presence is the result of more than 30 years of upgrades at nearby...

In this article: Darter, Pollution, EPA, and Endangered species

MARTINEZ - A 19-year-old Walnut Creek man will be sentenced to seven years in prison for fatally stabbing a Hercules High School student at a summer house party where tensions between teens from different areas of Contra Costa County...

In this article: Rodeo, California, Defendant, and Contra Costa County

...in an e-mail to the community Wednesday that he will retire at the end of this school year in June. After 23 at the top-performing Walnut Creek high school - 17 of those as principal - 59-year-old Lickiss said it was with "mixed...

The following are excerpts from the Walnut Creek Police Department log: Saturday, Oct. 17 BURGLARY - A laptop was reported stolen from a residence broken into overnight in the first block of Litke Lane. BURGLARY - Money was reported...

In this article: Mercedes-Benz and IPod

WALNUT CREEK - Police arrested a robbery suspect this afternoon after the victim and a witness reported the suspect's license plate number to dispatchers. Pleasant Hill resident Jesse Meth, 22, was arrested on suspicion of strong-arm...

In this article: Pleasant Hill