Walnut Creek: 49ers rush in to repair vandalized school field

Two weeks after vandals wreaked havoc on Contra Costa Christian Schools’ soggy athletic field, the San Francisco 49ers have stepped in to make repairs. Members of the football team’s groundskeeping crew were at the school Feb. 6, rolling and seeding the soccer field damaged last month after someone drove destructive donuts over the water-logged grass in two separate acts of vandalism.

Seniors welcome new robot friends

Welcoming a robot into her family was never Maxine Duncan’s idea of a support aide in her older years. But this winter, she and her partner, Herbert Yarbrough, signed up to test a telepresence robot in their retirement community in Walnut Creek, Calif.