Condemned killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas makes new bid to overturn death...
Richard Allen Davis, one of California’s most notorious convicted killers, whose 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas inspired a crackdown on serial offenders, is making a fresh bid to...
View ArticleSan Anselmo man sues police over restraint after brain seizure
A San Anselmo resident has sued the Central Marin Police Authority, alleging an officer mistreated him soon after he suffered a brain seizure at his home. Bruce Frankel claims he was injured when the...
View ArticleNighttime gunshots may harm health and sleep of millions, Mass General study...
Nighttime gunshots and the sirens wailing right after may be a larger factor in the health and well-being of millions of people than previously considered, Mass General Brigham researchers report. The...
View ArticleJudge denies Trump bid to toss classified documents case
By Eric Tucker | Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal judge refused Thursday to throw out the classified documents prosecution against Donald Trump, turning aside defense arguments that a...
View ArticleNovato police arrest suspect with ‘ghost gun’
An East Bay man was arrested at a Novato hotel on Friday on suspicion of possessing suspected narcotics and a “ghost gun,” police said. Police contacted the man at about 5:30 a.m. after receiving a...
View ArticlePresident Biden tells Baltimore ‘your nation has your back’
By Will Weissert | Associated Press BALTIMORE — President Joe Biden got a firsthand look Friday at efforts to clear away the “mangled mess” of remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in...
View ArticleAttorneys for condemned killer of 12-year-old Polly Klaas ask judge to...
Attorneys for the man convicted in the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas pleaded with a Santa Clara County judge on Friday to reconsider their client’s decades-old death sentence,...
View ArticleTamalpais High School investigates students over bigoted photo
At least two Tamalpais High School students are under investigation over a photo that surfaced in school and on social media of a girl with a racist slur and a swastika written on her face, officials...
View ArticleMarin embezzler pardoned by governor
At age 82, Michael Woodson said he feels like he has earned a measure of redemption. In the 1980s, Woodson became notorious for mishandling $13.5 million invested in a San Rafael mortgage brokerage...
View ArticleSan Rafael adopts road safety plan
San Rafael city streets — which have the county’s highest number of repeat injury collision locations — could become safer under a new plan. The city adopted a road safety plan that aims to eliminate...
View ArticleSausalito police investigate stabbing at residence
Sausalito police are investigating an attack that left a man with stab wounds. The crime was reported at about 9:15 p.m. Saturday at a residence on Cable Roadway, police Lt. Brian Mather said. Police...
View ArticleNew Marin jail program aims to reconnect inmates with families
Deja Munson kisses her 1-year-old son, TiAnte Cook, as her other son, Rayvontay Parker, 7, plays nearby, during a visit at the Marin County Jail in San Rafael, Calif. on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Munson,...
View ArticleNew York Judge rejects Trump bid to delay hush-money trial
By Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz and Jennifer Peltz | Associated Press NEW YORK — A New York appeals court judge on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal...
View ArticleTesla settles lawsuit over Apple engineer’s Autopilot death on eve of trial
On the eve of a jury trial expected to delve deeply into Tesla’s controversial “Autopilot” technology, the company has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of an Apple engineer killed on Highway 101...
View ArticleNovato suspect accused of attempted carjacking
An assault suspect allegedly tried to carjack a driver while fleeing from authorities in Novato. The suspect, who is described as an unhoused resident on Binford Road, attacked a neighbor with a pole...
View ArticleMarin carjacking and robbery suspect pleads not guilty
A suspect pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of carjacking a driver in San Rafael, stealing a car in San Anselmo and committing other offenses during a police pursuit. Richard Montiel Contreras,...
View ArticleNew York appeals court rejects Donald Trump’s third request to delay Monday’s...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JAKE OFFENHARTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is now 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to get a New York appeals court to delay his looming hush money criminal...
View ArticleTrump is about to go on trial in New York. Here’s what to expect
By Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is expected to be pulled from the campaign trail for at least two months starting next...
View ArticleManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says Trump’s hush money criminal...
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When he was elected two years ago as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney, Alvin Bragg spoke candidly about his unease with the job’s political...
View ArticleMount Tam rescue effort saves driver in ravine
A Sonoma County sheriff’s helicopter crew rescued a driver from a ravine on the west side of Mount Tamalpais. The vehicle plunged about 200 feet down from Panoramic Highway on Wednesday afternoon,...
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