There have been at least a dozen incidents of violence on local campuses this year.

For the millions of Americans who retire each year, stopping work might seem like a well-deserved break.

Kate Birdsall Johnson, a billionaire and “eccentric cat fancier” in the 1800s, lived in an ornate Sonoma castle and financed a hospital for poor women and children.

“Bad Hostage,” directed by the granddaughter of a Sebastopol woman taken hostage 52 years ago and inspired by a Press Democrat reporter's stories, will be shown at the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival this weekend.

The boy, whose name wasn’t released because of his age, was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery and battery on a school official before being released to his mother, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.

Santa Rosa inspectors during a visit to Fountaingrove Golf Club in February found construction at the member-owned course violated city grading and stormwater ordinances.