Marin News from the Marin IJ

A Novato man convicted of impersonating police during a road-rage incident pleaded not guilty Monday to illegally possessing ammunition.

Dominican cites error in student admissions

Bite in Fairfax acts as reminder that vipers are awake

The Marin County Sheriff's Office is trying to track down a parolee who fought with a deputy and escaped after he was spotted in a stolen vehicle in Marinwood.

Novato-based aircraft engine leasing firm Willis Lease Finance Corp. reported Monday it generated lower earnings in the first quarter of 2013 due to reduced gains on the sale of lease equipment.

Two San Rafael men, two Novato men and a Larkspur man were arrested after a burst of gunfire in a San Rafael neighborhood led to the seizure of a stolen, loaded handgun in a car.

A Mill Valley man is facing nearly 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in four drug cases, including one where he smuggled methamphetamine and OxyContin into county jail by hiding it between his buttocks.

National Bike to School Day will be celebrated on Wednesday and Bike to Work Day on Thursday.Students and their families, along with teachers and community leaders, from 33 schools in Marin will be joining schools from around the nation to celebrate walking and biking to school.

Two suspects were arrested Monday in connection with a burglary investigation in Mill Valley, and authorities suspect they might be responsible for crimes throughout Marin.

A 22-year-old Novato man will be arraigned this week on charges he supplied the alcohol to a group of teens before they were injured in a high-speed DUI crash.

San Anselmo's Carol Holder becomes first local female captain for S.F. Etchells fleet

IN 1925, WHEN Andrew Bettini's great-grandfather Cesare Bettini became a broker selling Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.

The Mothering Tree, a seven-foot-tall clutch of reclaimed branches painted gold, was installed in downtown San Rafael on Saturday for people to write notes to their mothers on colorful rice paper "leaves" and tie them to the limbs.

Groups of hardy volunteers are spending their Fridays and Saturdays working to bring Kent Island and Bolinas Lagoon back to health.

Merger of the Marin County coroner's office with the county sheriff's department is working well — and saving taxpayers $41,000 a month, according to an annual report.

A man threatening to kill a female relative with a pickax in a Novato home was disarmed, arrested and jailed Sunday afternoon, police said.

LUKE TEYSSIER settled in the Tamalpais Valley with his wife and two young children two years ago seeking, he said, "a more rural setting.

Communities across Marin will benefit this summer as the county wages a war on potholes.Officials, accelerating a roads improvement program, will cap a three-year, $26 million effort by launching six asphalt overlay projects covering 25 miles of unincorporated area roadway — and providing

A man charged in two Novato bank robbery cases has been charged with a third in Mill Valley.Joshua James Metoxen, 23, was one of two suspects charged with a Feb.

Novato police wrote 319 tickets in April for drivers texting or operating hand-held cell phones.The focus on "distracted drivers" was part of the statewide Distracted Driver Awareness campaign throughout the month of April.