Petaluma News

I n the opening moments of Rick Reynolds' enjoyably self-obsessed one-man show, Only the Truth is Funny: Mid-Life at the Oasis , the semi-reclusive stand-up comic-turned-performance artist deftly relates his three rules for a happy and contended life.

Under a compromise with fire fighters wary of the dangers of a third summer of drought, vendors have agreed to sell Safe and Sane fireworks for four days instead of the usual seven.

Police say a teenager was injured by shrapnel from a pipe bomb that exploded inside a portable bathroom in a public park.

Petaluma police say theya ve arrested an alleged drunken driver with two prior DUI convictions.

Pabst, the World's Ugliest Dog, shows off a look that won't see him competing any time soon in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

A prominent under-bite, scrunched face and floppy ears are the hallmarks of a winner.

Vibrant, tree-lined and crested with a hilltop park renamed in honor of a local soldier, Kentucky Street has charm that helps make downtown Petaluma a delightful place.

It's a face only a mother could love. The new world's ugliest dog has been crowned.

It's been two long years since Dawn Goehring of Gatlinburg, Tenn. came home from the World's Ugliest Dog Contest a disappointing second runner up.

Pabst, a toothy Boxer mixed-breed, stole the show at Friday's World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Marin-Sonoma Fair in Petaluma, Calif., defeating a former world champion Chinese crested named Rascal to take first place.

Pabst competes in the World's Ugliest Dog Contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair on Friday, June 26, 2009, in Petaluma, Calif.

A 48-year-old Petaluma man was arrested Saturday evening at the end of a two-week-long stakeout of a repeat DUI driver who had a warrant out for his arrest, according to Petaluma police.

There was a new winner in the "World's Ugliest Dog Contest" was chosen Friday night at the Sonoma Marin Fair.

It is the weekend of the Ugliest Dog. The world-famous staple of the Sonoma-Marin Fair for 21 years starts Friday at 6 p.m. at the Petaluma Fairgrounds.

Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn't cram into The Week in Preview.

A former Sonoma Valley youth soccer coach pleaded not guiltyA Thursday morning in Sonoma County Superior Court to an amended complaint charging him with 31 counts of committing sexual acts with an underage girl on his traveling team.

A Novato woman was arrested on allegations she zapped her landlord in the face with a Taser stun gun when he came to inspect the property Tuesday, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

Breck Parkman, a California State Parks archaeologist, will present a lecture, "The New Year Feature: A Mexican Republic Era Time Capsule from Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park," on July 15.

Find out more about Lisa: Lisa Ludwigsen owns the School Garden Company, which manufactures organic herbal body products.

President Barack Obama is morphing into George W. Bush, as administration attorneys repeatedly adopt the executive-authority and national-security rationales that their Republican predecessors preferred.