After California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child with a member of his household staff, his wife Maria Shriver filed for divorce. Adding insult to injury, Schwarzenegger doesn't want to pay spousal support according to a court filings. (Though, what with Shriver being a wealthy Kennedy in her own right, she doesn't really need it, does she?) However, according to KTVU, "The dispute may have little impact on the divorce, since the former Hollywood couple is expected to reach a confidential, out-of-court settlement." more ›

The same day that the world learned that her husband the former Governator had fathered a child with an employee, Maria Shriver hopped over to Chicago to appear on one of Oprah Winfrey's last shows, in blue sequins. The appearance was clearly scheduled long before Shriver knew her husband's philandering was going to be a huge national headline yesterday, and as the AP reports, the topic didn't really come up. more ›

After news broke today that Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child with a household employee in 2003, which prompted the break up for his and Maria Shriver's marriage, the former California Governor's 17-year-old son, Patrick, announced that he changed his last name to Shriver. The Schwarzenegger's third child went on to send out the following Twitter message, "Some days you feel like shit, some days you want to quit and just be normal for a bit, yet i love my family till death do us apart." more ›

Arnold has an 8-year-old baby Maria didn't know about! The LA Times broke the news last night, via a statement former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gave them in response to questions, that the one-time Terminator fathered a child with a member of his household staff back in 2003, before he was elected governor. He only just informed wife Maria Shriver of this bombshell earlier this year, prompting her decision to separate. more ›

After 25 years of marriage, and just a few months out of Sacramento, California's former governor and first lady are putting their marriage on hold, according to the L.A. Times. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced their separation tonight. Shriver will move out of the couple's Brentwood family home. The former role models of bipartisanship have been "residing apart" for the last few weeks and will continue to do so while they "work on the future of [their] relationship." more ›

A natural gas line explosion erupted in San Bruno on Thursday at Skyline Boulevard and Sneath Lane, sending a continuous fireball into the sky that destroyed 32 homes and killed four six residents. The massive explosion, which was heard for miles, was due to a gas line that... more ›

California's First Lady is at it again, menacing the streets of the Golden State. And there's no stopping her. After being busted twice earlier this month for not using a hands-free device while driving, TMZ posted footage of Shriver parking illegally. It seems the rampant Kennedy-adjacent criminal parked her Cadillac Escalade in a red zone, which is an enormous no-no. She will not be stopped, this Shriver woman. You've been warned. more ›

After news leaked this week about California First Lady Maria Shriver amounting to nothing more than a hoodlum -- that is to say, she doesn't use a hands-free device on her cell when she drives -- she apologized for her reckless cellphone usage today. According to CBS, "Shriver says she will donate her favorite old cell phone to a program that helps domestic violence shelters." She went on to add, "That's my version of swift action with a higher purpose." more ›

Like a tightly-scrunched walnut, the fine folks at TMZ have cracked the case of California First Lady Maria Shriver's wanton disregard for public safety and that of her own. It seems Shriver was caught in the act of talking on her cellphone while driving, sans "hands-free" device. As most of you know, the hands-free law went into effect last year. more ›

California's First Lady makes yet another visit to S.F more ›

Destination Turk Street in the TL, our First Lady Maria Shriver is coming to town to celebrate Family Day ("a day to eat dinner with your children"), and in part for "It About WE", some sort of it-takes-a-village altruism awareness program designed "to make [charity] service fun, rewarding and accessible." more ›

--Sofia Milos is back in town. more ›

Our vulgar friend to the south, Defamer, points out why: more ›

As you can probably tell, we have kind of a love/hate thing going on with the Chron over here at SFist HQ. But since it's Raves Thursday, we're highlighting the love! And you know who we love the most? No, not Jon Carroll. No, not Ken Garcia. We love Bad Reporter!!! God, we love Bad Reporter! Marry us, Don Asmussen!! Who else can monitor the state of San Francisco hair gel politics so trenchantly? Who else could draw Dick Cheney's pottymouth with such an adorable snarl of the lip? Maria Shriver's cheekbones! Gavin and Kimberly on the rug!! FROM WHAT SICK WELLSPRING DO YOUR GENIUS IDEAS ORIGINATE????? We can only stare, awed and envious, at the heights of brilliance to which Mr. Asmussen reaches on his always-changing publication schedule, and then, silently, move down the back page of Datebook to read the new Dear Abby's advice. ("Have you considered seeing a therapist?" It's always "have you considered seeing a therapist.") more ›

Well, the Chronicle has their watch-thingie to pick on small, local bay area officials about semi-trivial issues like broken signs, graffitti and potholes. Since we're small and local, we'll turn it around and pick on a big official on semi-trivial issues like journalistic ethics, campaign financing ethics and, well, potholes. more ›

So whatever happened to those 135 people who ran for governor in the 2003 recall election? Well, a bunch are in the Bay Area news today! Cue up the end-of-the-movie montage movie music and let's go. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the guy who won, snuck back into San Francisco yesterday to give a speech to the newspaper publishers' convention. Never fear, the nurses, firefighters, and other state employees against the recall found out about it in time to send 100 protestors out to the Fairmont. You can tell he was upset about it because he made that same lame joke about seeing protests when he proposed to Maria Shriver. Tiii-red. Also, he's spending all day today apologizing for frightening his handlers by saying we should "close the borders" to Mexico. Oops! And how about that Scott Davis, the recall candidate from Palo Alto, running as an independent to promote organ donation? Yeah, we didn't remember him either -- until it was revealed today that he might be close to being arrested for a 1996 murder in Atlanta, of a guy who was dating Scott's ex-wife. In other, non Bay Area candidate updates: Mary Carey the porn star was arrested in a raid last week at a strip club in Washington State. (She came in 10th in the election). Gary Coleman's been attending the Michael Jackson trial. No word on what the ferret guy's been up to, though. more ›

See Arnold Run, the biopic of our Governator (we never get tired of it) that debuted tonight on A&E is like a high school production of A&E's standard-bearer Biography series put on by the wrestling team. more ›