SF News All Hell Breaks Loose In San Mateo County: Sheriff Allegedly Dating Staffer, Used N-Word, Union President Arrested A full-blown R-rated soap opera has broken out at the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, as the sheriff is alleged to have hired her boyfriend to a position she created, and used the n-word. Oh, and the president of the county’s deputy sheriff’s union was arrested Tuesday.
SF News Australian Man Gets Two Months in Jail for San Mateo County Wrong-Way Crash That Killed Two A September 2023 head-on crash that killed two elderly people in San Mateo County has been attributed to an Australian motorist driving on the wrong side of the road, which would have been the correct side in Australia, so that motorist got a plea deal for just two months in jail.
SF News Daly City Gym Custodian Shot and Killed by Disgruntled Customer Who Followed Him Home A 60-year-old custodian at Daly City’s Fitness 19 gym was followed home and shot by a gym member last Saturday night, and the San Mateo County DA says the whole thing was tied to a dispute over the alleged shooter’s hygiene habits at the gym.
SF News Suspect In San Mateo Stabbing of Woman That Was Streamed on Facebook Deemed Incompetant to Stand Trial The Pacifica man accused in the July 2023 stabbing of a woman inside an apartment in San Mateo has been declared mentally incompetant to stand trial.
SF News Another Farm Worker at Half Moon Bay Mushroom Farm Threatens to Kill Coworkers For the third time in two years, a worker at a mushroom farm in Half Moon Bay has threatened major violence against his coworkers, and this time the suspect had been recently fired from the farm.
SF News Victims In Last Week’s Devil’s Slide Crash Identified, Two Were US Army Veterans After a car plunged 300 feet off the Highway 1 Devil’s Slide area last Friday, we’re now learning that the two women killed were US Army veterans, and a third man killed was a military interpreter.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Arrested at SFO For Alleged Smuggling of 6 Kilos of Meth to Australia A Los Angeles man was arrested two weeks ago after he was caught by the TSA at SFO trying transport six kilograms of methamphetamine to Australia.
SF News Defense Says Man Who Drove Family Off Cliff In Tesla Should Avoid Jail, Get Treatment Instead Court hearings are underway in the case of that doctor who drove his family off a cliff in San Mateo County last year, and his attorneys argue he was mentally ill and obsessed with conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein, fentanyl, and Ukraine.
SF News One Dead After Car Goes Off Cliff Along Highway 1 in Coastal San Mateo County Traffic was disrupted in both directions of Highway 1 north of Half Moon Bay Thursday afternoon, as a car went over a cliff shortly before 1 pm, and the driver of that car has been pronounced dead.
SF News San Mateo County Will Charge Unhoused People With a Crime If They Refuse Shelter While it only applies to unincorporated areas of the county, a new law just passed by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will make it a misdemeanor to refuse shelter if you’re homeless.
SF News All Four Victims of Half Moon Bay Plane Crash Identified, Two Were Scheduled to Be Married Sunday Investigators' fears are confirmed that there were indeed four people aboard the homebuilt plane that crashed in Half Moon Bay a week ago Sunday, and heartbreakingly, the pilot and one passenger were actually planning to get married this coming weekend.
SF News Two Half Moon Bay Plane Crash Victims Identified, Two More Possibly Unaccounted For We now know the names of two victims of the Sunday night’s tragic plane crash in Half Moon Bay, including the pilot, and the make of the homebuilt aircraft. There is also some conflicting information on whether there may have been others onboard.
SF News [Update] Search for Survivors Now 'Suspended' After Small Plane Crashed in Half Moon Bay A small plane which took off from the East Bay crashed in Half Moon Bay sometime after 7 p.m. Sunday night, and as of late Monday morning, the Coast Guard suspended their search for survivors, without having found the pilot or any of the passengers.
SF News Suspect In Pacifica Homicide, a Colma Firefighter, Found Dead of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound In Ukiah The suspect in Thursday's double stabbing in Pacifica, which was described as an incident of domestic violence and in which one male victim died, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Ukiah.
Bay Area Sports Someone Broke Into Steph Curry’s House, and the 18-Year-Old Suspect Is Still at Large An 18-year-old Chinese exchange student managed to break into Steph Curry’s Atherton mansion, and we’re only learning of it nearly two months after the fact because the suspect failed to show up for his court date.
SF News Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donating $1 Million to Half Moon Bay Shooting Victims and Farmworker Housing The January mass shooting in Half Moon Bay exposed a secret underbelly of immigrant farm workers living in squalid on-farm housing, but a million-dollar donation from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation will go to improving those workers’ living conditions.
SF Politics Former Congresswoman Jackie Speier Can't Stay Away From Politics, Will Run For County Supervisor Not long after retiring from Congress, former San Mateo County Rep. Jackie Speier is running for office again, this time for the same county supervisor seat she held almost 40 years ago.
SF News Crazy Cliffside Shack Near Pacifica Seen on Viral Video Destroyed In Winter Storms; Hermit May Still Be Down There We have a real, honest-to-goodness, mysterious hermit in the Bay Area whom no one seems to have to photographed or seen alive. And his precarious and sublime cliffside dwelling, fashioned out of driftwood and tarps, has become a recent source of fascination due to some drone footage.
SF News San Mateo County Beach Closed After ‘Aggressive Shark’ Incident A stretch of Bean Hollow State Beach near Pescadero was closed Wednesday morning, after a report of “aggressive shark behavior” that left one kayaker rattled but unharmed.
SF News Woman Stabbed In San Mateo Apartment; Suspect Streams Final Moments On Facebook San Mateo County has just seen another gruesome murder that sounds like a domestic violence incident, this time involving a woman being stabbed live on Facebook.
SF News 3 Wrong-Way Crashes Reported Across the Bay Area This Weekend The incidents, across Oakland, San Mateo County, and the North Bay, resulted in the deaths of two people and five hospitalizations, as CHP investigates their causes and if alcohol played a role.
SF News Residents of San Mateo County’s Woodside Told ‘LEAVE NOW’ As Mudslides Move In Evacuation orders are in effect in parts of the incorporated small San Mateo County town of Woodside, and the sheriff’s office is not mincing words as they tell residents to “LEAVE NOW.”
Business & Tech San Mateo County School Board Sues Social Platforms Over 'Monetizing Misery' of Kids — But Leaves Out Instagram The San Mateo County Board of Education has filed suit against the parent companies of YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok citing evidence that they were designed to be addictive and are harming the mental health of children. But where is San Mateo County resident corporation Meta in all this?
SF News Tesla Cliff Plunge, Oakland Baker’s Death Spark Debate Over Charging Suspects Against Family Wishes Two Bay Area cases that have made headlines have a common thread that the victims’ families may not want suspects charged, though that’s still unlikely to change a DA’s decision on whether to pursue charges.
SF News San Mateo County Agrees to $4.5 Million Settlement With Family of Man Police Fatally Tasered In 2019 County officials are calling it “the largest law enforcement-related settlement in anyone’s memory” after agreeing to pay a $4.5 million settlement for the tasering and killing of an unarmed pedestrian who’d merely been jaywalking.
