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Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 11:33 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 11:33 a.m. A two-car collision that blocked all lanes of southbound Highway north of Rohnert Park late Friday morning was among more than a dozen crashes scattered around the North Coast as rain settled over the region.

Lynn Vincent, the ghostwriter who helped Sarah Palin quickly complete her new memoir, Going Rogue , brings a background replete with antigay and racist connections, according to Max Blumenthal, senior writer for the Daily Beast.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 2:10 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 2:10 p.m. The members of an informal Sebastopol science club have their first hands-on project, the conversion of a Model T flat-bed truck to electric, marrying a classic farm vehicle with a motor, batteries, solar panels and electronics.

Moremi, a wild caracal of the African desert, jumped 5 feet in the air to grab the rabbit's foot dangling from a stick held by her handler Rob Dicely.

Jonathan Veitch, the 15th president of Occidental College, is presented with a sextant navigation tool by school board of trustee members during his inauguration Saturday morning, October 24, 2009 at Occidental Colleges' Remsen Bird Hillside Theater in Eagle Rock.

D.W. Patterson Field, 7 p.m. RECORDS: CLU 5-1, 3-0 SCIAC; Occidental 5-1, 3-0. LAST WEEK: CLU defeated Chapman 49-13; Occidental defeated La Verne 14-13. GAME FACTS: Not only will the winner move into sole possession of first place in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference standings, but postseason implications could be in play ...

"I've been about to make it any minute now for 40 years," Teresa Tudury says matter-of-factly as she prepares to celebrate the release of her new CD, Such Fine Things.

Sonoma County is best known for the cities along US 101 and wine country in the eastern part of the county.

Editor's note: In "Street Whys," our reporter tracks down the origins of street names in the Sacramento region.

Today, that impressive journey is threatened by excessive logging at its winter destination in the Sierra Madre Occidental forest - a problem California, Mexican and environmental officials vowed Wednesday to address at the Governors' Global Climate Summit 2 in Los Angeles this week.

Peruvian rice, steaming Greek falafels, satay dripping with peanut sauce, doughy Salvadoran pupusas, slippery Thai noodles.

Supporters of the West County Health Centers in Sonoma County will demonstrate for health care reform on Friday and on Sept.

The Bulldogs hosted the 2009 Redlands Cross Country Invitational today at the University of Redlands with a multi-terrain course that covered the quad in front of Memorial Chapel as well as nearby Sylvan Park.

Stock up on plants at Occidental Arts and Ecology Center s fall plant sale on Aug.

Saugus High School graduate Shannon Sirk was awarded a Ph.D. in Molecular and Medical Pharmacology from the University of California, Los Angeles on June 11.

Saugus High School graduate Shannon Sirk was awarded a Ph.D. in Molecular and Medical Pharmacology from the University of California, Los Angeles on June 11.

Much of Northern California's wine country is pretty annoying. If you're not faced with ostentatious wealth - wineries built to look like fake chA teaux, white-tablecloth restaurants - you're dealing with a self-consciously down-home vibe, like $12 hamburgers and kitchen stores selling distressed antique tin that's supposed to look like it came out ...

By Jim McCausland, Sunset Magazine "Simple, but not easy" is how Robert Kourik sets things up in Drip Irrigation For Every Landscape and All Climates .

Cindy Sheehan, a 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee and recipient of dozens of peace awards worldwide, will visit Occidental on July 31 to greet the public on the street and attend an informal reception at Howard's Cafe, followed by an interview on Occidental's radio station, KOWS 107.3-FM. Sheehan is coming to Occidental, she said during a recent ...

School district officials tonight will ask board members to reject independent study Pathways Charter School's petition to join the district.