Martinez resident failed to back up claims that attorneys and police officers were in on what he believed was a conspiracy that led to malicious prosecution and defamation, according to a federal judge.  

WALNUT CREEK -- In his 33 years in law enforcement, retiring police Chief Joel Bryden has faced some particularly high pressure situations. As a member of the San Diego SWAT team in 1984, he helped take down a man who had killed 21 people -- some of them children -- in a McDonald's restaurant in  

An elderly man was in critical condition Sunday after being robbed and attacked near a local Orchard Supply Hardware. Officers were dispatched at 5:17 p.m. on Saturday to a robbery in progress at 4873 Lone Tree Way in Antioch. When police arrived they found an 83-year-old victim unconscious and bleeding.