Two teenage boys told police they were walking toward the Rincon Valley library when a group of boys surrounded them, demanding their backpacks and brandishing a knife.
After doubling participation among young Sonoma County students for the second year in a row, Read On, Sonoma! is now aiming to reach half of all local elementary school kids, and eventually all of them.
About 150 Monte Rio Beach-goers attended day one of the Big Rocky Games on Friday, participating in rubber ducky races, watermelon-eating contest, hula hoop contests, water balloon tosses, and potato sack races.
An egg laid in the wild by two free-flying Pacific Northwest condors appears to have failed, but Yurok biologists are excited by the first parenting attempt.
A 61-year-old man riding an electric scooter was traveling on the wrong side of the roadway when he hit a pedestrian on the sidewalk Wednesday morning, police said.
