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Citizen seems to notice a police officer driving around and around his neighborhood while he is working on his boat in his driveway. Police officer doesn't like being filmed by someone in his own yard and decides to stop and pull gun on him.

Lockdown at Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park Published: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 9:55 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 10:09 a.m. Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park has been locked down because of a report of a student with a gun in a restroom, authorities said. Rohnert Park police were at the Snyder Lane school and were mobilizing both officers and medical personnel. An initial sweep of the school with two five-person teams did not locate anyone, but the school remained on lockdown, authorities said. Redcom, the county’s emergency dispatch system, confirmed they had...

There were no winners on a youth rugby field this weekend. A Rohnert Park girls rugby coach and his brother could face criminal charges, possibly this week, for their roles in kicking Alameda girls rugby coach Craig Stewart in the head and punching stand-in referee Paul Berman in the face three times. Another Alameda assistant coach also sustained rib injuries.Seven others, possibly parents or spectators, also could face criminal charges, police said. The Northern California Rugby Football Union suspended all of the players and coaches in the Rohnert Park rugby programs, effective Monday. The victims, meanwhile, are not only gashed...

ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (AP) - Police are seeking criminal charges against several adults in a violent melee at a girls rugby match that left a coach bloodied and unconscious and a referee with a split lip. "I've never seen anything like it," said coach Craig Stewart, 55, who was knocked unconscious after he was kicked in the head by another coach and parents during a game Saturday afternoon at Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, according to witnesses and police. "I never saw them coming," Stewart said. "They just started kicking me in the head and the face." The...

On Dec. 12 Bueler inflamed matters by distributing a Conservative Club newsletter in which he wrote that "Liberals welcome every Muhammad, Jamul and Jose who wishes to leave his Third World state and come to America — mostly illegally — to rip off our health-care system, balkanize our language and destroy our political system." The statement was borrowed directly from the sayings and writings of nationally syndicated San Francisco radio host Michael Savage, whom Buehler credits for inspiration. The club's motto, "Protecting our Borders, Language and Culture," is also a Savage slogan.

Action another response to suspected gang-related killing at Sunrise Park Rohnert Park will ban alcohol in city parks as part of its campaign to fight gang violence, the City Council decided Tuesday. The prohibition, which will take effect in 30 days, was approved on a 4-1 vote. Only Councilwoman Amie Spradlin opposed the measure. "I urge that we don't unfairly punish those that wish to enjoy an alcoholic beverage with their friends, with their families," she said before the vote. Spradlin said most of the problems associated with public drunkenness are caused by minors who already are breaking the law....