Sonoma County News

A former Napa math teacher has been sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for committing sexual acts with an under age boy in Sonoma County.

Under a compromise with fire fighters wary of the dangers of a third summer of drought, vendors have agreed to sell Safe and Sane fireworks for four days instead of the usual seven.

Share + Jul 2, 2009 11:05 am US/Pacific SANTA ROSA A discarded cigarette started a fire that killed a man in his home in unincorporated Sonoma County late Saturday, Gold Ridge Fire Protection District Chief Andy Pforsich saidA Thursday morning.

The fourth and final defendant indicted in connection with a May 1998 gang-related murder pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in Sonoma County Superior Court Wednesday morning.

A BLACKBURN man has been arrested for murder after reports that a man was strangled with a wire in California.

Two suspects have been arrested in the strangulation death of a Guerneville man, authorities said.

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Friends and family are mourning the death of John Greaves, who was killed Friday evening after he was hit by a car while bicycling on Camino Tassajara Road near Dublin.

One of three suspects arrested for the 2007 shooting death of teenager Luis Miranda in Maxwell Park has been convicted of second-degree murder.A Juan Carlos Perez, 25, of American Canyon, faces at least 15 years in prison, a sentence that could be increased based on gang allegations and the use of a gun.

It turns out a small plane that took off from Charles Schulz / Sonoma County Airport on Wednesday and crashed in Arizona later that day carried a secret payload - some 12 pounds of marijuana and a suitcase full of cash.

A 53-year-old Solano County man with a confirmed case of H1N1 has died, health officials confirmed Thursday.

A former Sonoma Valley youth soccer coach pleaded not guilty Thursday morning in Sonoma County Superior Court to an amended complaint charging him with 31 counts of committing sexual acts with an underage girl on his traveling team.

Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lawrence Antolini is struggling to decide whether a Santa Rosa man charged with fatally stabbing and slicing his mother 45 times intentionally inflicted torture.

A Healdsburg man was sentenced to five years and four months in state prison Wednesday morning in Sonoma County Superior Court for arsons at local businesses three years ago.

Flash! Sonoma County getting their solar act together! A quick alert for folks thinking about solar in place of dirty coal fired electricity.

A Guerneville man was convicted in Sonoma County Superior Court Monday morning of assault with a deadly weapon for shooting an arrow that injured a Monte Rio resident in January.

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Home food production is an 'entry-level' survival tactic, says Scott McKeown. Here is a very interesting piece from the North Bay Bohemian , which offers an interesting update on the continuing spread of Transition in the US.

Sonoma County Central Committee Convention Delegates played a leading role in a broad coalition of single payer supporters and organizations at the convention, including CNA, CaPa, HCA, PDA, CTA, CSEA and the Berkeley Wellstone Democratic Club, in passing out leaflets, circulating petitions, marching and lobbying for the successful passage of a ...

The opening of a Sonoma County summer camp this week was put on hold because of an outbreak of the H1N1 virus.