Novato News

An HIV-positive Novato man charged with having sex with a teenage boy was acquitted of most charges Tuesday after a two-week jury trial.

Al Tagliaferri owner of Tagliaferri's Delicatessen & Cafe, is among the tenants at the shopping center who are concerned about the lack of a new tenant for the former DeLano's Market site.

In conversation, Pierce Freeman of Novato comes off as a grizzled Web developer, reflecting on the days of the Web boom, espousing the merits of a variety of programming languages and wishing he'd been accepted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he applied years ago.

Courtyard by Marriott hotel at Hamilton. Police are searching for an armed man who robbed two Novato hotels minutes apart early Thursday morning, a day after a man robbed a Corte Madera hotel early Wednesday morning.

A Novato-based group advocating the employment of documented American workers in Novato has collected more than half the required signatures to place an initiative on the Nov.

The already massive 645-acre Hamilton wetlands restoration project just got a whole lot bigger.

Evelyn Scopazi calls bingo numbers at the Margaret Todd Senior Center in 2007. Wilma Simmons is able-bodied enough to continue living on her own at age 93, but interaction with others is limited now that she doesn't drive anymore.

Novato schools have cut $43,427 from the district's program for gifted and talented students in response to state budget cuts.

Novato police arrested a Marin City man on suspicion of possessing counterfeit hundred dollar bills after he crashed his car into a tree Monday night.

A Novato man with two drunken driving convictions was arrested on allegations he led police on a drunken high-speed chase from downtown San Rafael to northern Novato, authorities said.

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against a former Kansas teacher convicted of molesting a foreign exchange student that a Novato agency placed in his home.

Bruce and Judy Arnold of Novato celebrate her election as county supervisor in 2006.

A mountain-bike park at Stafford Lake in Novato is being considered by county planners as a way to help address a demand for cycling areas as various users continue to butt heads on Marin trails.

A Saturday night party in Novato's Bahia neighborhood resulted in one gunshot fired and two cars - one later reported stolen - fleeing from the area, authorities said.

A crew drills for water at O'Hair Park in Novato at the projected site for a community garden spearheaded by Veronica Valero's group, the Novato Live Well Network.

When actor Pernell Roberts died Jan. 24 in Malibu, a small group of his friends in Novato felt a deep loss.

Elizabeth Sleath is Novato's citizen of the year. It's appropriate that Elizabeth Sleath lives on School Road, because Sleath is known countywide as a tireless volunteer on behalf of schools.

Ratepayers in the North Marin Water District should enjoy the lush green landscape around the Novato area but not stop conserving water around the home, a district official said.

A woman racked up an unpaid tab of nearly $55,000 at a Novato hotel after claiming to be a federal agent, authorities said.

A workshop for teen drivers called Smart Start, offered by the California Highway Patrol and Novato police, is set for Tuesday in the police department's conference room at 909 Machin Ave.