A third Santa Rosa Shell gas station in 10 days was robbed early Wednesday by what police say may be the same tall, thin young man who struck at two other Shell stations last week.
The most recent incident occurred just after midnight Tuesday and involved the Shell station on Dutton Avenue and Highway 12, police said.

Santa Rosas average price for regular gasoline was $3.998 a gallon today, according to AAA. A year ago, it was $2.859.
Among the areas typically low-price stations, these prices were reported this morning:
--$3.839 at Arco at Hearn and Corby avenues in Santa Rosa.
--$3.839 at Arco at Fourth Street and Brookwood Avenue in Santa Rosa.

The Santa Rosa restaurant is the latest to fall victim to rising food costs and the slumping economy. On Thursday, the contents of the Victorian-style building on Cleveland Avenue will be sold at auction.

Tourism in Sonoma County generated a record $1.32 billion in revenues powered largely by visitors who flocked to wineries and by vacationers who found Wine Country a convenient travel bargain.

Warriors guard Monta Ellis will be out at least three months after severely spraining his ankle during an offseason workout. Ellis underwent surgery Wednesday to repair the ligament.

The Sonoma-Marin agency promoting commuter rail has fired the opening salvo in what is promising to be a bruising election-year fight, filing suit Wednesday in an attempt to disallow the opponents ballot arguments.
Those arguments are intentionally false and misleading, the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit agency claims.

A replica of the distinctive black wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is in place at Santa Rosas Memorial Park today as volunteers, including veteran John Ponts, above, work to install the monument. It opens for viewing at 10 a.m. Thursday.

The average price of regular gas has dropped just below $4 a gallon in Santa Rosa for the first time in three months, just in time for more than 3 1/2 million Californians to hit the highways for Labor Day weekend.

Even as they grappled with inflation worries, most Federal Reserve officials at their August meeting didnt believe the Feds key interest rate was too low given harder-to-get credit conditions straining consumers and businesses alike.

Mike Carey has a dream, and it is populated by grown men wearing bibs and outsize collars, umpires with top hats and tails, and cheering cranks yelling nice ginger, behind! as catchers chase down ricocheting balls.

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