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.
SF News Large Boulder and Rockslide Crash Onto Highway 1 Near Devil's Slide A great big rock and a bunch of other rocks are currently blocking the southbound lane of Highway 1 just north of the Tom Lantos Tunnels/Devil's Slide Bridge, and Caltrans says that motorists should "expect delays" in the area as they attempt to remove the rocks.
SF News Video: Check Out Crazy-Big Sinkhole Shuts Down State Route 92 Near Half Moon Bay More sinkhole trouble, this time on State Route 92, which is currently closed both directions in a stretch near Half Moon Bay. Fortunately no one was hurt, but there is eye-popping video and wild photos from Caltrans and CHP.
SF News Peninsula Toddler Missing For Ten Days Found in Mexico, Allegedly Abducted By Father Three-year-old Andrea Flores went missing from Millbrae on January 1, but was just found in Mexico, and authorities believe her father Victor Flores-Enriquez abducted her and absconded to south of the border.
SF News SamTrans Bus Crashes Into 16 Cars In Daly City Parking Lot, Causing At Least Four Injuries At least four people are injured, one of them critically, following an incident at the Serramonte Mall in Daly City involving a SamTrans bus that may have been out of control and crashed into over a dozen cars in a parking lot.
SF News Prosecutors: French Bulldog Theft In South San Francisco Was Arranged By Ex-Girlfriend With Help From Gang Members A case from the summer of 2021 — one of a spate of high-profile robberies involving French bulldogs in the Bay Area — is finally hitting a courtroom in San Mateo County, and it was not a random theft.
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 Mike Tyson Won't Be Charged For On-Plane Assault at SFO San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe says that no criminal charges are going to be filed against heavyweight champ Mike Tyson for that videotaped beating gave to a fellow passenger on a JetBlue flight out of SFO last month.
SF News Scott Peterson Transferred Back to San Quentin So He Can Make More Phone Calls to Lawyers Scott Peterson, who has been back in a San Mateo County courtroom in recent weeks as his legal team continues trying to get his 2004 murder conviction overturned because of a single, allegedly biased juror, wants out of the county jail and back into San Quentin, and a judge is allowing it.
SF News San Mateo County Convinced It Can Reach ‘Zero’ Homelessness in 2022 The Project Homekey bonanza has San Mateo County officials talking as if they will solve homelessness in their county in 2022, though their homeless population is a fraction of San Francisco’s.