SF News Man Who Beheaded Ex-Girlfriend In San Carlos Receives Maximum Sentence, Which Is 25 to Life A Hayward man who was convicted in November in the 2022 slaying of ex-girlfriend Karina Castro was sentenced Tuesday morning to 25 years to life in prison, the maximum allowable under California law.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ex-Boyfriend Convicted In San Carlos Beheading Jose Solano Landaeta was convicted Monday in the Sept. 2022 beheading murder of ex-girlfriend Karina Castro; two men have been arrested in a stray-bullet homicide in Oakland; and a longtime SF novelist dies at age 99.
SF News Suspect In San Carlos Beheading Reportedly Had Mental Illness, Had Made Serious Threats Weeks Earlier The man accused of brutally murdering his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child last Thursday made his first court appearance Monday, as new details in the case continued to emerge.
SF News Victim In Domestic Violence Beheading In San Carlos Identified, Friends and Family Say She Feared for Her Life A tragic incident that was the gruesome culmination of an abusive relationship turns more tragic and unfortunate with each new detail that comes out. And we now know the identity of the young mother who was killed by her estranged, violent boyfriend and father of one of her children.
SF News 33-Year-Old Hayward Man Identified as Suspect In Insane Beheading-By-Sword In San Carlos An intensely brutal scene occurred in the middle of a San Carlos street on Thursday morning in which a man, possibly a former boyfriend with a restraining order against him, allegedly beheaded a young mother of two with a sword.
SF News Bay Area-Bound Plane Crashes At Reno Airport Killing Three Three people died Sunday when a plane crashed at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. CNN reports that the small aircraft experienced trouble shortly after takeoff and collided into the airport's parking lot. According to the
SF News Can San Carlos Succeed Where SF Failed, And End Delivery Of Unwanted SF Examiners? The San Mateo County city of San Carlos has a big problem, and it's coming from San Francisco. The issue? Unwanted copies of the SF Examiner that are being dumped in San Carlos
SF News [CORRECTION] PG&E Fined For San Carlos Pipeline Error CORRECTION: While initially reporting that a fine was issued for the San Bruno pipeline explosion and fire, this was NOT the case. Today's ruling was regarding PG&E "delaying and mischaracterizing" the
SF News Editor's Inbox: Spare the Air Ruins San Carlos Man's Christmas Stubborn big-government naysayers, listen up: when Spare the Air says do not burn Duraflame logs, the mean do not burn Duraflame logs. Take, for example, Mike, a reader from San Carlos, who sent
SF News Crazy San Carlos Lady Ducks Out of Court, Jumps Bail, Gets Found Two Months Later 37-year-old Jennifer Lynn Dickerson, who was convicted for robbery in November, tried jumping bail by running away during a court recess. She was awaiting sentencing for robbing a San Carlos home two years
misc Dis of the Year -- Wired vs. Tesla Motors. Future: Tesla 2.0? We’ll bring you up to speed about what's happened since our previous post, (oh the hate mail that generated -- use the Comments Section instead people, that’s what it’s there
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Tesla Motors' Roadster- the Electric Edsel? Are there any similarities here with this car? Some hyperbolic coverage from the MSM makes us wonder a bit. Here's an opinion from Washington Post-affiliated Slate - the author was "unbelievably stoked", even
SF News A Murder And A Fire There was also a one-alarm fire by Fifth Street and Market around 6:00 a.m. One person was hospitalized. Picture of the crime scene in the Mission from KTVU.
Arts & Entertainment To Stay Or To Go Everyone goes through phases where they think: am I to think that I can afford to live in this city any longer? You spend so much for these teeny-weeny houses, the public schools
SF News Your Commute: Friday Woes Officer Cakebread is all over the news today -- earlier, he came to our attention when he was reporting that a sideswiped moving van flipped over on the westbound lanes of Highway 92
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lou's Living Donut Museum Closing San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut
misc Crazy About Cats, or Just Plain Crazy? SFist loves animals. But even we got a bit of an allergic sniffle when we read about the more than 80 cats taken from a home in San Carlos on Friday. Achoo! And,
SF News Where There's Smoke No, it's not just your eyes today -- there's a huge 25,000 acre fire north of Lake Berryessa in Napa and Yolo Counties, the smoke from which is hazing up the sky