San Rafael News

A Dominican University student escaped serious injury Thursday after falling asleep behind the wheel and driving off the freeway on her way to school, police said.

After nearly seven years at the helm of the Vallejo Chamber of Commerce, president and CEO Rick Wells announced his resignation Friday.

Day of the Dead. It sure sounds like a bummer. But "Day of the Dead" or "Dia de los Muertos", is a traditional holiday celebrated in Central America and Mexico to commemorate family members, and loved ones, who have passed away.

I just saw an ad in the Pacific Sun for "Piroshki, Fresh Made Daily" at the Golden Orb in San Rafael .

Two motorists were injured Friday after a reckless race through Novato and San Rafael, police said.

For seven days and six nights at the end of November, a group of Jews will sit mostly in silence, meditating in a quiet wooded neighborhood in San Rafael.

Measure G co-chairs Gordon Manashil and Paul Cohen, with San Rafel Fire Chief Chris Gray look at early election returns showing the public-safety bond leading but not by enough to pass with a two-thirds majority vote.

Lilly Lange displays a photo of her Chihuahua, Lefty, that was dog stolen out of her yard on Sunday.

Betty Elaine Maurer of Oklahoma displays one of her quilts. Her daughter, Belinda Fernandez of Mill Valley, created One Woman s Journey Told In Quilts," a book that tells the story of her mother's life and world travels through her quilts.

Tamalpais firefighters clear a fuel break east of San Rafael to create defensible space around homes in the China Camp area.

Alec Guerin, an eighth-grader at Saint Raphael's School, gets into character playing the mad scientist for visitors at the Spooktacular Haunted House and Halloween Festival.

Bill Kay of San Rafael, a retired PG&E engineer, files documents on missing persons while volunteering with the San Rafael Police Department.

Firefighters battle an early morning structure fire at the end of Valley Road in Fairfax.

A Marin Sanitary Service recycling collector was in critical condition and undergoing brain surgery Friday morning after being struck by a car in Terra Linda.

Drivers will head into the weekend without the Bay Bridge, Caltrans said today, as workers continue to fine-tune and then test repairs to a brace that failed and fell onto the bridge deck earlier this week.

The communications director for California Attorney General Jerry Brown has been secretly recording telephone conversations with reporters, an apparent violation of state law.

BARRY STONE calls his company Scrap and Taffy Productions. It's a dog thing. And the Oakland-based filmmaker is a dog guy.

Marv is turning 75, his party guests are about to arrive, his wife, Lois, is baking his favorite cake, but all he can think about are the galloping horses he keeps hearing whenever he's alone in the living room.

A jury convened by the county coroner ruled Wednesday that a drug suspect who died in sheriff's custody on Aug.

Commuters looking for alternate routes around the Bay Bridge this morning packed Highway 37 and the Richmond-San Rafael and Golden Gate bridges.