San Rafael police outline reform efforts since controversial arrest
In person and by teleconference, San Rafael residents joined a city forum this week asking for reform in a police department that many said frightened them. The event at the Albert J. Boro Community...
View ArticleMill Valley house fire leaves 1 dead
A woman was pronounced dead after a house fire in Mill Valley, according to Southern Marin Fire Protection District. Firefighters forced their way into the home at 27 Midway Ave. after neighbors...
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Oroville Dam floodgates opened as storms fill massive reservoir
In another sign that the drought is ending across much of California, state water officials opened the floodgates at Oroville Dam on Friday to let water out of the state’s second-largest reservoir to...
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52 feet and counting: Lake Tahoe grapples with ‘ginormous’ snowpack
Rather than use a yardstick, Deanne Maas measures each new snowstorm at her house atop Donner Summit by carefully examining the widening cracks in her drywall. Some of them now reveal the underlying...
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Gov. Newsom surveys Monterey County Pajaro flood damage as crews scramble to...
Gov. Gavin Newsom surveyed extensive flood damage Wednesday caused by the massive Pajaro River levee breach as residents demanded to know when they could return home and Caltrans announced plans to...
View ArticleEmployee charged with lying about Stanford University rapes that shook campus
A Stanford University employee who authorities say twice reported last year that she was viciously dragged out of sight on campus and raped — touching off panic about a serial predator — is now accused...
View ArticleSan Rafael police: Robbery suspect targeted day laborers
A man suspected of robbing day laborers in San Rafael has been arrested in the East Bay, police said Wednesday. The crime happened on Feb. 22, when a driver picked up two men seeking work in the area...
View ArticleRetrial ordered for former Tam students convicted in Italian officer’s killing
By Elisabetta Povoledo/The New York Times ROME >> Italy’s highest court on Wednesday ordered the retrial of two former Marin classmates who are serving time for the killing of an Italian police...
View ArticleCentral Marin police arrest Corte Madera arson suspect
Central Marin police have arrested a suspect in an alleged arson fire in Corte Madera. Donald Gregory Clontz, 38, of Corte Madera was booked Wednesday night on suspicion of lighting a wooden pallet...
View ArticleNewsom plans transformation of San Quentin prison
IJ news services San Quentin State Prison is headed for a major transformation as Gov. Gavin Newsom expands his push to remake the state’s penal system by implementing progressive models from Northern...
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“When can we go home?” Pajaro residents agonize as key question remains...
PAJARO — Behind barricades and under the watchful eyes of armed police officers, dozens of frustrated Pajaro families gathered on the Main Street bridge with one question on their minds: “When can we...
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Pair sentenced in Bay Area baby abduction
SAN JOSE — A woman and her boyfriend were sentenced to prison Monday in the April kidnapping of a San Jose infant, drawing to a close a case that drew national notoriety because of its apparent motive...
View ArticleBay Area driver killed by falling tree
A man was killed when a tree fell onto his truck while the vehicle was in motion Tuesday on Alpine Road in Portola Valley, according to the California Highway Patrol. Winds were swirling throughout the...
View ArticleWalnut Creek: One dead, one hurt after tree hits vehicle
WALNUT CREEK — A vehicle passenger died and a driver was injured after a tree fell Tuesday in the city’s Rossmoor retirement community, authorities said. Related Articles Weather | San Anselmo...
View ArticleHighway 101: Multivehicle crash snarls commute traffic north of Novato
A vehicle pileup just south of the Marin County line near Novato stalled traffic on Highway 101 Wednesday morning. California Highway Patrol public information officer Darrel Horner said eight or nine...
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Judge sentences ex-Dublin federal prison warden in inmate sex abuse case
OAKLAND — The former warden of a Dublin federal prison and reputed member of the facility’s notorious “rape club” was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in prison for sexually abusing inmates at...
View ArticleMap: See California’s drought nearly disappear in just six months
It’s been less than six months, but California’s drought conditions have all but disappeared. And given all of the wild weather we’ve experienced this winter, it’s been easy to overlook one of the most...
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Ransomware fallout: Could lawsuits break Oakland’s silence?
OAKLAND — Numerous city workers received alerts this month confirming the worst: strangers were attempting to open lines of credit on their accounts, using social security numbers hacked from the city...
View Article‘FEMA help is actually on the way’: Newsom takes key step to bring aid to...
Gov. Gavin Newsom took a key step Tuesday in getting FEMA aid to California communities recovering from devastating damage caused by recent atmospheric river storms, including the small town of Pajaro...
View ArticleAuthorities investigating $500K heist at Colorado casino
Colorado authorities are investigating a mountain town casino heist of $500,000 in cash — the biggest theft from a casino that state regulators can remember since gambling started again in 1991. The...
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