The San Francisco Business Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Early voting results indicate Walnut Creek’s Broadway Plaza just might welcome a Neiman Marcus store after all. City residents were posed with Measure I, a referendum that asked voters to allow Neiman Marcus to move into its downtown retail district after opponents blocked city approvals for the project.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Walnut Creek voters were saying giddy-up to Dallas retailer Neiman Marcus on Tuesday night, according to early returns that showed Measure I passing by a wide margin. The measure changes the city's general plan to allow the high-end department store to skirt...
Bull City Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday
... consumer gloom. Still, the team assembled by general manager Bob Klaus, a veteran of Raleigh's Walnut Creek outdoor concert shed, has been booking performances all year and has much to show for its efforts…. Indeed, the faltering economy is one unfortunate hurdle that programmers have to clear.... Visit http://www.bullcityrising.com for the full article.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Lathel Williams, 59, died from gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at his home. His 29-year-old son, whose identity was not released by Contra Costa County authorities to protect his safety, was treated for injuries at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek and released.
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Jaycee Dugard hid her identity, lied, refused to answer questions and asked for a lawyer as a parole agent probed her relationship with Phillip Garrido...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Had state parole agents leafed through Phillip Garrido's federal parole file when they took over his supervision in 1999, they would have known...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The PMI Group, Inc. (NYSE: PMI) (the "Company") today reported a loss from continuing operations for the third quarter of 2009 of $87.9 million, or $1.06 per basic and diluted(1) share, compared with a loss from continuing operations of $149.3 million, or $1.83 per basic and diluted(1) share, for the same period one year ago. The...
Protein Wisdom (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. Had state parole agents leafed through Phillip Garrido’s federal parole file when they took over his supervision in 1999, they would have known his property near Antioch, Calif., didn’t end at the backyard fence. They might have found Jaycee Dugard and her two girls back behind that fence, perhaps in the soundproofed shed that [...]
"Bank on California" Money Launderi (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
WALNUT CREEK ... Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi has comfortably won Northern California's 10th Congressional District special election. "Today, the voters have spoken; they still have hope and still want change," Garamendi told a crowd of hundreds of enthusiastic supporters. "I will hit...... more
Lee.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to us offered to go to the place and mail us a bottle of this elixer! I see there is one in Walnut Creek which is a little closer. Cafe Rouge in Berkeley was recommended. Alice’s Restaurant in Noe Valley for the best Chinese food in San Francisco.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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Politics (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... puts forth as the voice of San Francisco is C.W. Nevius, a former sports writer who lives in Walnut Creek and seems to have little understanding of the city’s political dynamics. On its editorial page and in many of its news stories, the Chronicle actually gives credence to ridiculous arguments that we need to cut taxes and regulations to keep corporations and shoppers from bypassing us...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... a registered MSP/ISO of HSBC Bank USA, National Association, Buffalo, N.Y., and Wells Fargo Bank, Walnut Creek, CA.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Democratic Lt. Gov. John Garamendi is heading to Washington, D.C., today to be sworn into Congress after beating four other candidates in a special election to fill the Congressional seat vacated by Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Walnut Creek. Garamendi defeated...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Kibbe agreed to help authorities find the remains of Lou Ellen Burleigh, who disappeared from Walnut Creek in 1977.Kibbe's victims were found along Interstate 5, leading to the nickname "I-5 Strangler."San Joaquin County prosecutors didn't pursue the death penalty because of Kibbe's age and the slow pace of executions in the state.------Information from: The Sacramento Bee, © Copyright 2009...
