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2001
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Walnut Creek, January 2001
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Bank Robbery
| Jan.26 |
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14-Screen Theater City Oks theater. Foes say it will cause congestion on downtown streets
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| Feb.1 |
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Stabbing Blamed on Jealousy Martinez man arrested after he allegedly stabbed a man dating his ex-girlfriend outside a bar
| Feb.14 |
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Suspect Dead in Police Shooting Employees called police telling them a man was trying to use a fake or stolen credit card. Suspect drew a gun
| Feb.16 |
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Man Shot by Police was Fugitive Jason Amen Watts killed by police was wanted for kidnapping and robbery.
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| May.9 |
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Gunmen robbed home 4 suspects reportedly stole $9,000 in cash and jewelry and bound a workman and a teenager
| May.19 |
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Contra Costa Times cuts 87 jobs Early retirement and voluntary buyout programs to be offered
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| Jun.7 |
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1 dead, 3 infected with meningitis Pharmacy apparently contaminated cortisone shots with the bacteria | |
| Jun.8 |
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CC Times will curtail regional edition Contra Costa Times will publish its Daily Ledger section 3 times per week -- instead of the current 5 times per week
| Jun.11 |
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2 hospitalized with meningitis They received contaminated made-to-order cortisone shots
| Jun.13 |
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2nd death confirmed as meningitis Meningitis linked to a Walnut Creek health clinic. In Pittsburg clinic authorities seized contaminated medicine | |
| Jun.23 |
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Died of meningitis linked to pharmacy Woman, 80, who received a tainted shot becames the 3rd fatality among the cluster of cases | |
| Jun.30 |
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Con men foiled by bank employee Gooden, 50, and Brooks, 51, convinced 72-year-old man tried to withdraw $10,000 from his account
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| Jul.4 |
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Pharmacy could be shut down Officials will attempt to close Doc's Pharmacy believed to be source of meningitis outbreak
| Jul.6 |
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Pharmacy to stop compounding Doc's Pharmacy, suspected of selling contaminated shots, can stay open
| Jul.14 |
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Pharmacist's license suspended Robert Horwitz, owner of Doc's Pharmacy, which mixed a medicine linked to a 3 meningitis deaths
| Jul.26 |
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Meningitis victim sues pharmacy Robert Raymond, 70-year-old man, alleges that a shot he received was contaminated with serratia bacteria
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| Sep.20 |
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Taxi driver indicted for rape, murder Grand jury indicts Jehad Baqleh, 33, for rape, murder of Walnut Creek woman in SF financial district
| Sep.24 |
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4-alarm fire damaged office building The blaze caused a million dollars in damage to the 2-story building | |
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| Oct.12 |
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Sentenced to 3 lives for drugs Kevin Lee Davis, 32, of Walnut Creek, major Oakland cocaine trafficker, sentenced on 79 federal charges
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| Nov.18 |
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Threatening suicide on tracks Man threatened to jump on the tracks causing the stop on the Pittsburg/Bay Point line in both directions | |
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| Dec.3 |
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Auto Theft Jumps There is one stolen car a day during the first 6 months of 2001 in Walnut Creek
| Dec.15 |
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Armed carjacking 2 men armed with a revolver forced a woman and 2 companions from their car outside a video store
| Dec.29 |
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Armed robbery of store Light-skinned lightly-built black man was holding a silver hand gun
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