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Denver, Colo., May 26, 2023 / 13:15 pm Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco said Thursday that prosecutors’ decision to reduce the charge against activists who destroyed a parish’s statue of a saint from felony to misdemeanor sends the signal that attacks against the Catholic Church can continue with impunity. “It is clear to me that this course of action would not have been taken with anyone else. In fact, if the same kind of offense had been committed against another religious congregation or group, it would almost certainly have been prosecuted as a hate crime,” Cordileone said. Cordileone’s statement...

A little bird could become a big hold up for important upgrades on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. A path on the upper deck will enable bike riders to get across in both directions and a third traffic lane on the lower deck will ease congestion for drivers heading eastbound. The backhoes are waiting — the safety barriers are lined to go up — but thanks to a little winged friend, work on a key part of the $70 million Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Bridge re-do has been put on hold. Randy Rentschler, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission said, “In this particular case...

“I wrote a story about it.” It is a phrase Jack Beritzhoff says a lot. And when you consider the San Rafael resident, and former Merchant Mariner, is about to celebrate his 97th birthday, that adds up to a lot of stories. In fact, Beritzhoff compiled many of his favorite one into a book he published in 2012: Sail Away, Journeys Of A Merchant Seaman. Still, there is one story he is most eager to share these days, about an oversight of history he would like to see corrected. “I think it’s an injustice,” said Beritzhoff. Beritzhoff is referring to...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A California ordinance that prohibits smoking in residences with shared walls may be the strictest anti-smoking law in the United States, city officials say. The ban, passed by the city of San Rafael, applies to both owners and renters, ABC News reported Thursday. It covers any multi-family residence with three or more units, including condominiums, co-ops and apartments. The ban took effect Nov. 14.

Police evacuated a San Rafael neighborhood Tuesday afternoon when live World War II ordnance was discovered in a garage. The resident said he found two hand grenades and a mortar that had been brought back from the war as souvenirs by his wife's late husband and had been stored in the garage for more than 50 years, police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher said. Police found a live 37mm anti-tank projectile, a live hand grenade and an inert mortar. The Napa County Sheriff's Department bomb squad and the San Rafael Fire Department evacuated residents on Wolfe and Antonette avenues after the discovery...

This Saturday afternoon, citizens of San Rafael and Marin County have a golden opportunity to show support for enforcement of America's immigration laws. The Golden Gate Minutemen Project, as well as other local chapters, will rally in opposition to the City of San Rafael's stated refusal to enforce immigration law. The rally will be held at the corner of Second and Lindaro streets in San Rafael from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Though San Rafael City Officials say the town is not a "sanctuary city," the Mayor, Al Boro, told a crowd protesting the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps, "The...

Canal district leader says enforcement violates civil rights - A community advocate in San Rafael voiced outrage Tuesday over the handling of federal immigration raids this month in which agents arrested dozens of people, in some cases arriving at homes before dawn and identifying themselves as police. "This is a huge civil rights issue," said Tom Wilson, executive director of the Canal Alliance, who called a press conference Tuesday evening in the city's largely immigrant Canal district where many of the raids were carried out. "This is a story of federal officers coming into people's homes without a search warrant,...

Elected officials in Marin County continue their attacks on Immigration & Customs Enforcement for apprehending illegal aliens during raids in the Canal area of San Rafael and Novato last week. In the process, many of these “leaders” are using the most extreme and outrageous language in their criticism of federal immigration officials. State Assemblyman Jared Huffman picked up the "terrorizing our community" mantra used by open borders advocates at a community rally on Monday at Pickeleed Park Community Center in San Rafael‘s Canal area. "I've just driven almost 100 miles from Sacramento to be with you. I would have driven...

Man Fakes Kidnapping To Hide Crash From WifePOSTED: 12:27 am EST February 14, 2007 SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Police said a California man admitted faking his own kidnapping to keep his wife from finding out he crashed her new car. Police in San Rafael said the 35-year-old told authorities two kidnappers held him up at gunpoint, so he decided to purposely crash the car into a wall to escape. Under questioning he admitted making the whole story up. A police spokeswoman said the man was worried about how his wife would react to her car being wrecked. The man could...

Richard Beardall is getting exactly what he wanted: a trespassing ticket from federal land managers for ignoring the rules and riding his ATV on a closed road in the San Rafael Swell. Beardall, three other ATV riders and a Jeep, moved a 10-foot barricade near an old uranium mine and made a half-mile roundtrip along the access road to the Muddy River on Saturday. The Bureau of Land Management closed the area to recreational vehicles in 1993 due to riparian damage, said Price, Utah-based BLM manager Roger Bankert. Beardall, president of the Americans with Disabilities Access Alliance knows that, but...

Anti-war veterans will visit San Rafael High School this week to brief students on their experiences in the military. The event, sponsored by several peace groups, will feature three panelists: Aidan Delgado, a former Army reservist from Sarasota, Fla., who served in the Iraq war; Aimee Allison, a former combat medic in the Army Reserves from Oakland, who was assigned to a Sunnyvale hospital during the Persian Gulf War; and Pablo Paredes, a former Navy enlistee from San Diego, who was court-martialed for refusing orders during the Iraq war. The three plan to share their objections to the Iraq war...

San Rafael, Mexico, Aug 7 (EFE).- Subcomandante Marcos, leader of Mexico's Zapatista rebels, said early Sunday he would like to form an alliance with grassroots organizations and launch "another campaign" to take on the traditional political parties at the national level, including leftist parties. The proposal came after Marcos appeared in public for the first time in five years on Saturday and accused leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of "treason." Wearing a ski mask and escorted by five people, Marcos appeared at a rally in the village of San Rafael, in the southern state of Chiapas, to...

More than a year after Sarah Nome was deemed healthy and given her discharge papers, the 82-year-old woman stubbornly refuses to leave her hospital bed. Nome admits there is no reason she should be racking up unpaid medical bills - which have now topped $1 million - but says she has nowhere else to turn. Now Kaiser Permanente's San Rafael Medical Center in California is suing her for the cost of her stay and trying to show her the door. "The thing is, I have no medical problem. I've been here more than a year, never had any medication, never...

From The Belly Of The Beast As promised, here is the after action report on my Central San Rafael solo freep tonight. For those not in the know, Marin County is ground zero in the war on the mental disorder known as liberalism. We are what the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge is attached to. Some of our more infamous citizens include Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Sean Penn and none other than Johnny Jihad Walker Lindh. Yes that's right!, the same Taliban Johnny now doing 20 years up the stony lonesome courtesy of Federal Prosecutors. Read this precursor...