Cameron Macdonald

Marin County sheriff's deputies arrested three men accused of stealing nearly $4,000 worth of merchandise from the Safeway in Strawberry.

Karen Strolia, president and chief executive officer of the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce, will start next month as chief executive of the Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership.

The show will go on at HopMonk Tavern after a driver crashed through a wall at the Novato restaurant and music venue.

The crash damaged the venue’s “Session Room,” according to the staff.

Marlon Washington, the leader of the Marin County Probation Department for six years, died Friday at age 52.

An estimated 2,000 households in northern Mill Valley could be without power on Wednesday and early Thursday due to the threat of wildfire, authorities said.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is considering a planned shutoff due to hot temperatures, dry conditions and high winds.

The suspect allegedly attacked the victim “randomly and suddenly” on Irwin Street, police said.

A small brush fire burned part of wetlands area in San Rafael on Wednesday. The fire was reported at about 4:15 p.m. near the Home Depot store on Shoreline Parkway.

The shutoff affected a fringe of downtown and neighborhoods to the north, west and southwest, according to the utility’s outage map.