SF News Two Cases Of Mad-Cow Disease, One Already Fatal, Reported In Marin [Updated] Yikes. So, a 59-year-old San Rafael woman died in recent weeks of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a.k.a. mad-cow disease, and a second woman in Marin County has been diagnosed with it. According
SF News Someone Is Trying To Burn Down Novato Novato has been terrorized by 50 separate, small, suspected arson fires in the last three days, most of which have been in garbage cans or on small, four-square-foot patches of grass or brush.
SF News Gavin Newsom: Kentfield, California Homeowner Gavin Newsom has finally found a quaint new suburban home to call his own, the Chronicle's Leah Garchik reports today. The new house, in the overwhelmingly caucasian town of Kentfield, California, is the
Arts & Entertainment Marin Gays Really Have It Rough, You Guys A charming gay couple, recently transplanted from New York City to San Rafael -- in part for economic reasons, in part because the gays have got to start to think about their golden
SF News Data Point: Demographic Breakdown of Ross, CA "8 Black people who live in Ross" - from the "Home, Swank Home" sidebar item that comes along with yet another reaction to news that Gavin Newsom would be moving up to Marin
SF News Marin Gets Slapped For Not Having Any Minorities, Agrees to Find Some You know how Marin County is pretty much entirely white? Well, HUD (the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development) actually has a problem with this, because they've been giving the County
SF News Marin Sees Second Teen Suicide In a Week A 13-year-old boy was found early yesterday morning having apparently killed himself in Marinwood, in San Rafael. He was in an exposed public area along Grande Paseo, and was found by another student
SF News Nude Man Masturbating On Marin Nude Beach Residents near Muir Beach in Marin are up-in-arms over a certain man who frequents Little Beach, the unofficially clothing optional area adjacent to Muir Beach, and proceeds to pleasure himself in broad daylight.
SF News Marin County Discusses, Wags Finger at Underage Drinkers Studies show that southern Marin teens drink far more than most kids their age. "They're getting passed out drunk every weekend and I can see that it's affecting their grades," warned Shankel. "The
SF News Oh Shit: Prisoner Poop Fills the Bay 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
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SF News Sewage Spill Dumps 2.7 Million Gallons Into the Bay 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.
misc SFist Photo: Where Have All the Salmon Gone? Per the rangers at Muir Woods, one Coho made it up Redwood Creek this month. Another Coho tried, but was intercepted and eaten by a hungry river otter. Oh well. Godspeed endangered fishies.
misc Larkspur Students Help Out With Oil Spill Cleanup Via Makeovers 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
SF News Mt. Tam Body Confirmed as Veronica Ruiz 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
SF News Body Found On Mt. Tam, Veronica Ruiz? 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
misc Here Comes the Rain Again 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
Arts & Entertainment Selections from <em>LA Weekly</em>'s Sean Penn Article 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;
SF News SFist Blotter ...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
SF News SFist Blotter 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)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight 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
misc When Sharks Attack The surfer, Royce Frailey of Guernville, only got minor wounds and was quickly released from the hospital. In fact, the whole thing is being kind of being pooh-poohed as no big deal, but
Arts & Entertainment Lynne Woosley Meets Stephen Colbert 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
