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Rolling Bike Party Rolls Through Walnut Creek Thursday
The two-wheeled Rolling Bike Party hit the streets of Walnut Creek Thursday night, participants bringing their own music for the ride and surrounding photographer Sean McDonough for a “group picture.”
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Walnut Creek’s Backpedaling Two-Wheeled Space Cowboy
I’m a space cowboy Bet you weren’t ready for that I’m a space cowboy I’m sure you know where it’s at Yep, he’s in downtown Walnut Creek – and you can’t miss him, even with the camouflage pants. Wheeling around town backwards, helmet aglow, texting as he goes and steering with his hindquarters he navigates…
Read MoreFormer Deputy Sheriff Pleads No Contest To Weapons Offenses
From the Office of the District Attorney: Matthew Buckley Pleads No Contest to Illegal Gun Possession, Filing False Police Report, and Preparing False Documents Martinez, California – Today, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office reached a negotiated plea against 42-year-old Matthew Allen Buckley for offenses that occurred when he was a deputy with the…
Read MoreWhite Supremacist Launches Profane, Anti-Semitic Tirade During Walnut Creek Council Meeting Tuesday
Hard as it may be to imagine in 2024 a man in a “white power” t-shirt launched a profane, anti-semitic tirade during public comments at Tuesday’s meeting of the Walnut Creek City Council, ending his speech with a stiff-arm Nazi salute. The man, wearing sunglasses, a trucker’s cap and swastika-emblazoned white power t-shirt uttered a…
Read MoreCue The Choir!
Some cool après-storm light refraction and theatrics for 24/680 People! You get a lot for your money here at News24-680!
Read MoreCHP Cruiser Crashes, Burns During Eastbound Highway 24 Pursuit Sunday
A California Highway Patrol officer was treated for a head wound after his car crashed and caught fire during a high-speed chase on eastbound Highway 24 near Wilder Sunday morning. The officer was in pursuit of a vehicle wanted for traffic violations when the crash occurred at approximately 2:15 a.m. All eastbound lanes of the…
Read MoreLafayette 7Eleven Robbed Saturday
Two men entered the Lafayette 7Eleven on Mt. Diablo Boulevard Saturday – one purchasing an item to get the clerk to open the till with a second man coming in and stealing an undetermined amount of cash at gunpoint. The suspects, believed to be two black males in hoodies, may have parked at a nearby…
Read MoreAnother Theft From Pleasant Hill Dick’s Triggers Chase, Arrest, Discovery Of Firearm
Area thieves apparently like the Dick’s Sporting Goods location in Pleasant Hill, visiting it often and leaving with goods they haven’t paid for. In on such instance Thursday night, Lamont Beamon of Sacramento attracted police attention – fleeing into the Geraldine neighborhood before officers closed in and made the arrest. Retracing the route Beamon had…
Read MoreSuspects In Walnut Creek Robbery Arrested Outside Lafayette BART Wednesday
Two men suspected of robbing a man – ostensibly for his shoes – in Walnut Creek’s Civic Park were apprehended at gunpoint outside the Lafayette BART station Wednesday night. Lafayette police officers and BART officers, alerted to the presence of two men wanted in connection with the earlier robbery, swarmed them at Happy Valley Road…
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