In a bit of late-breaking news, teenagers are apparently illegally(!) drinking(!) underage(!). Marin County held a townhall meeting in Kentfield last night to discuss this very recent, out-of-control phenomenon amongst teenagers. Parents and teenagers (sober, natch) voiced their concerns about underage drinking and wagged their fingers at certain areas of town where drinking runs rampant at city high schools. Studies show that southern Marin teens drink far more than most kids their age. "They're getting......

According to Marin County officials, about "1,500 gallons of raw sewage" was dumped into the San Francisco Bay today near Point San Quentin. Grody. According to the Gate: Deartment of Corrections officials have taken action to contain the spill, and are also conducting water testing in the area, authorities said. The public should not go in the water near San Quentin until the area is deemed safe, authorities said. Warning signs will be posted......

Described as a wiki of stupidheads, jerks, and self-awareness-free men, the Wikipedia parody site lists notable dickslices such as homecoming queen murderer O.J. Simpson; sexist boor Donald Trump; the Gisele Bundchen-impaling Tom Brady; that fat Arctic bastard Santa Claus (mean!); and Marin County's very own Harvey Milk impersonator, Sean Penn. The nerve. According to Dickipedia: Often described as an acting "powerhouse," Sean Penn is known for his intensity and humorlessness. He has been a......

Oh shit. After an alert system SNAFU failed to notify workers at a Marin County treatment facility about a sewage overflow on Thursday night, the San Francisco Bay is now the proud recipient of 2.7 million gallons of both "raw and treated" sewage. Lovely. Although sunbathers are few and far between this time of year, signs are posted all over Crissy Field, Baker Beach, Aquatic Park, and China Beach to keep people from swimming......

No more salmon in Muir Woods? ...

Oh, those crazy hot-tubbing, wife-swapping, Al Qaeda-loving Marin County folk. It seems that now they're scalping their own children in an effort to tidy up the remaining Cosco Busan oil spill disaster. Students from Larkspur's Marin Primary and Middle School have willing lopped off locks of hair from their nubile heads, then donating said hair to Eco-Cuts, "a program designed by Marin Primary to help in the cleanup effort triggered by the Nov. 7......

Marin County coroner's office identified that the body found atop Mt. Tam this past Sunday afternoon as female and, yes, Veronica Ruiz. It seems that she "the Internal Revenue Service agent's service weapon was found at her side and her U.S. Treasury Department photo identification was found in her purse at the place of her death," according to a report on CBS 5. (IRS agents have issued arms? Huh.) It appears that she died......

A body turned up on Mount Tamalpais this Sunday afternoon, and authorities (as well as your favorite rabid media outlets) are wondering: is this the body of distraught Mill Valley resident and IRS investigator, 25-year-old Veronica Ruiz? If you recall, Ruiz went missing in early December, reportedly "despondent" after a recent break-up with her boyfriend. A massive search for her ensued, but was called off since it produced no results. Until this week, according......

While not on par with Christmas Day tsunamis, this storm is pretty nifty, huh? Golden Gate transit buses have stopped, power has been knocked out to hundreds -- yes, hundreds! - of thousands of people, and surely snow is falling really hard atop a mountain somewhere. But what must actually suck is this morning's nightmare traffic caused by the raindrops falling on our heads. Ahem: Marin/Contra Costa County: E-580, Richmond-San Rafael Bridge closed due......

Wild turkeys are taking over Marin County. ...

We used to think we couldn't stand Sean Penn, but he never really did anything to deserve our ire. He's talented; seems to have similar political to ours; married to her, wonderful her; surfs; from Southern California; lives in the Bay Area; and above all else, is attractive. Then we figured it out: we didn't hate Sean Penn, we feared him. He seems like the kind of guy who could and would kick our......

...And that's not even the curviest part! A car chase that started in Marin County around 3:00 a.m. Monday morning ended abruptly when the driver, speeding at around 75 mph over the Golden Gate Bridge, overshot the turn from Doyle Drive onto Lombard Street and flipped over. A open fifth of Hennessey was found in the car, and the passengers are in SF General with non-fatal injuries. Your SF Labor Day weekend homicide count: 3.......

A photo of harbor seals frolicking in the shallow waters of Bolinas Lagoon...

Authorities are worried that the violent weekend is a harbinger for a bad July 4th. With 12 people dead (two more people were shot after the articles about 10 people killed went up), and half of those killings in Oakland, the Oakland PD is going to be upping patrols this Wednesday. Yikes. A Golden Gate Transit bus driver is on trial for allegedly deliberately hitting a bicyclist after becoming enraged that the bicyclist had rapped......

We could've gone with a YouTube clip of the video for Love Is A Battlefield (totally one of the best videos ever), but we went instead for the Benatards doing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" at the Eagle Tavern -- that's right, Pat Benatar's playing a show tonight! If you can get up to the Marin County Fair in San Rafael, Ms. Benatar and her husband Neil Girardo will be performing hits like......

We haven't done one of these columns in awhile! --Killer squirrels on the attack! A menacing critter stomped into an open classroom in a South San Jose school and bit a first-grader on the finger and two adults in the classroom. They called 911, but when animal control arrived, the squirrel had fled -- or in their words, "He high-tailed it outta there." Har! The school took pains to say that they don't usually have......

Han Shin showed up in court in Contra Costa County yesterday to plead not guilty to the charges that he tried to run over an ex's roommate with his car in San Ramon. He smiled and wished the judge a good day. Meanwhile, the authorities also arrested an Oakland man who's been stalking Schwarzenegger. Good ol' Dan Noyes! His I-Team's sued MUNI to get access to bus safety records, and they just won an order......

This would have been even more awesome if it had been on top of a moving train. The police in Berkeley used a hook-and-ladder truck to conduct a manhunt on Telegraph Avenue rooftops after the robbery of a Noah's Bagels at around 6 a.m. Monday morning. After what was described as a tense "building-by-building, rooftop-by-rooftop search," the man was located on top of a building and arrested without further incident. Ah, the Stanford police blotter,......

Last Saturday, a fight broke out at the "Hyphy High School Bash" at the Marin County Corte Madera Recreation Center. The police raced to the scene upon hearing reports of gunshots and a Golden Gate Transit bus being blocked on Tamalpais Drive by 80 teenagers. They couldn't confirm whether shots had been fired, but someone had sprayed pepper spray into the crowd and around the same time, someone broke into a nearby elementary school. Hilariously,......

Here's what's opening this week: Wild Hogs About four wannabe bikers who stumble into a chapter of Hell’s Angels, the film looks like an updated (and not-so-yuppie) retelling of City Slickers. Wild Hogs features Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, John Travolta and William H. Macy. A huge event for the Chinese “Year of the Pig” saw all four of the film’s stars in some sort of parade on the Embarcadero. There were supposed to be floats-- and motorcycles, of course. We hear you couldn’t pay press to attend. Let's hope the same can't be said of the movie. ...

-Another quake hit the Berkeley area, this time around 2.8. That's the fourth in that area over the past week and the fifth in the Bay Area. Maybe this is a good time to get that Earthquake Kit we've always dreamed about getting....

Pot growing in the wild! Marin County has vowed to crack down on marijuana growers who have been sneaking onto state and federal public property to plant over $100 million worth of weed. The pot is located on both sides of Bolinas Ridge, and Point Reyes National Seashore says they spent over $10,000 to clean it all up. Authorities report seeing one plant that was 10 feet tall and covered with so many buds the......

A surfer got munched on by a 12-15 foot Great White shark yesterday off Dillon Beach in Marin County. Maybe the Great Whites were jealous of all the attention the Sea Lions were getting? ...

-A mother and son who were considered missing this morning were found in Oakland early yesterday afternoon. Amber Alert cancelled. Is it totally wrong of us to really hate how they break into TV shows to broadcast an Amber Alert?...

Yep, it finally happened. The Mighty Stephen Colbert finally let us better know a district we actually know, that being "The Fighting 6th" of California. That district, of course, is Marin County and Sonoma and the congressperson is our very own Lynn Woolsey. And all this despite our little Nancy warning her minions to stay away from Colbert. ...

FYI: If you love these Alcatraz movies, the SF Public Library is featuring an "Escape To Alcatraz" movie festival this month! Wait, we thought Chunky Monkey was a Ben and Jerry's flavor: A man wearing a gorilla mask held up a Baskin-Robbins in San Mateo at the Bayhill Shopping Center. If you want a banana flavor at Baskin Robbins, you have to get the lo-fat Berries 'n Banana flavor, and then, well, what's the point of getting ice cream at all? (Certain regional stores have Banana Walnut, though.) Who wants a hug? The Ross police force up in Marin County has announced that its officers will be stocking up on teddy bears in their patrol cars to comfort kids who somehow end up needing police assistance (by getting lost in town, or being in a car accident). Do you get a bear if you were the perpetrator of the incident requiring police assistance too? The Ross police force now has almost 3 times as many bears as officers, and 5 bears in each car. The bears were donated by a former Ross police sergeant and his wife, a soldier-actress who was the inspiration for the movie GI Jane (really!). And more genius from the Examiner's South Bay police blotter: a woman who called about peeping toms that turned out to be her neighbor's shirts drying on a clothes line, the man who's shoplifted over 75 pairs of underwear from the Serramonte Victoria's Secret, and a man who got in a shoving match with a store clerk at a local metal shop over their 30% restocking fee. Good work, Examiner police blotter! ...

When we heard children's book author Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author of Good Night, Monkey Boy (a favorite with our nephew) had a new book out, we wondered how he'd top the wacky brilliance of Baghead, a story any of us who have trimmed our own bangs can relate to. Then he emailed us about his newest opus, Punk Farm. He told us, "I'm especially excited about it, so any plug that you could give......

Join SFist Amanda as she continues her series on the family way and being in it, with her report on Bay Area childbirth classes. Even those of us who are due to give birth in 6 weeks admit to being somewhat clueless about what the childbirth experience is all about. So what do we do? We do what all educated and enlighted people do; we shell out the cash and sign up for a......

here's an interesting little morality play going on in Marin County involving health care and the treatment of the elderly. And yes, it's more interesting than it sounds. Last Thursday, a Marin County judge refused to allow the local sheriff from evicting an elderly woman who has spent the past year living in her hospital bed. That woman, Sarah Nome, 82, of San Alsemo, hasn't needed treatment since last January but has refused to leave and the hospital, Kaiser Permanante has been trying for the past year to evict her. ...

Join contributing SFist Amanda as she braves the fresh hell of traffic school, so we don't have to Sometimes we at SFist break the law. Not necessarily in a "hold up the local 7-Eleven" kind of way, but in a "oh crap that schoolbus had its lights flashing" kind of way. Five-hundred and sixteen dollars later, we’re ready to sign up for traffic school. If you're a San Francisco County resident you're lucky enough......