Marin News from the Marin IJ

A new Marin County bus schedule that would route 26 daily shuttle runs on congested Belvedere Drive has angered Strawberry residents, who are gathering opponents to turn out at a public hearing Monday.

A Corte Madera man was arrested twice in eight hours Thursday on allegations he attacked a paralyzed, wheelchair-bound housemate.

The Marin Association of Realtors launched an advocacy group for Tiburon property owners this week that will support issues such as the continuation of the mortgage interest deduction and protecting the environment from faulty sewer laterals.

Authorities are investigating the case of a body found Wednesday evening in rugged terrain west of Kirby Cove in the Marin Headlands, but information remained sketchy.

An elderly bicyclist and a roofer were lucky to be alive after separate accidents in Sausalito on Wednesday.

Dr. David Gullion, an oncologist at Marin Specialty Care/Marin Cancer Institute, has been singled out for recognition by Zero Breast Cancer, a San Rafael nonprofit.

Retired Col. Dale W. Luehring, who served as general manager of the Golden Gate Bridge district for 16 years, died Monday at his Mill Valley home of lymphoma.

MAYSausalito Film FestivalMay 17 through 19; Cavallo Point Lodge, 601 Murray Circle, Fort Baker, Sausalito and CineArts Marin, 101 Caledonia St.

In the face of a tsunami of criticism, Disney has abandoned its sexy makeover of Merida, the feisty heroine of its Oscar-winning animated feature "Brave," on its official princess website.

Quick work by Novato firefighters knocked out a residential blaze late Wednesday in an incident that provided a fire prevention lesson for residents working with paints, refinishing oils, stains, lacquers and related material.

San Rafael firefighters extinguished a fire on the second level of Mini-Stor Self Storage, 990 Andersen Drive, shortly before 3 p.

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER hatching the idea to make rubber ducks that look like celebrities, San Rafael resident Craig Wolfe has turned his hobby into a full-time business and is pioneering an effort to bring rubber ducky manufacturing back to the United States.

Hailey Ratliff of Novato and Sylvia Bingham of San Rafael are two of the fallen cyclists who were honored in Wednesday evening's 10-mile Ride of Silence in Tiburon.

A Novato woman is taking on the San Francisco Police Department in a whistleblower lawsuit filed Wednesday against the department and its chief.

A second suspect was charged Wednesday in connection with an alleged robbery last month at a San Rafael gas station.

The Marin County Civil Grand Jury issued a report this week championing a landfill gas-to-energy project at Redwood Landfill and urging local officials to foster it and other projects at the landfill.

A 36-year-old San Rafael man remained in intensive care Wednesday for injuries from a runaway SUV at a car wash, police said.

A man whose body was pulled from the San Rafael Canal was identified as a 22-year-old San Rafael resident, the coroner's office said Wednesday.

The retrial of a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against Lucasfilm has been set for early 2014, this time with a different Marin County judge.

A driver who died in a fiery crash in Novato last month has been confirmed as a 53-year-old Santa Rosa man, the coroner's office said Wednesday.