SFist Blotter

Hey, do you guys remember the story about estranged Daly City politico couple the Berlangas, where the ex-wife and the ex-husband were running against each other for a seat on the City Council and the ex-wife accused the ex-husband of doing it to intimidate her and got a restraining order against him for stalking her? Well, he was sentenced to 15 days in the county jail and 32 hours of anger management classes for violating the restraining order last week. Also, neither of them won the election -- the ex-wife came in fifth and the ex-husband came in seventh.

We just had to look up where exactly "Rossmoor" is in the Bay Area (it's a very nice senior citizen community in Walnut Creek -- picture at left), but we are filled with pop cultural admiration for its citizens who are banding together and setting up an informal fire alarm system for the community involving giant cowbells outside people's homes, in the aftermath of a fire last week that killed one person, displaced 13 seniors, and burned down 12 units.

And there's a federal murder trial in San Jose involving a man who sent a booby-trapped robot dog to his ex-wife, which detonated when her son brother put batteries into it.