SF News San Mateo County Authorities Arrest Suspect Believed Responsible for 53 Burglaries, Seize Cache of Guns A 20-year-old man was arrested in Modesto over the weekend in connection with over 50 residential burglaries in San Mateo County — and in the process authorities seized eight semi-automatic rifles, three shotguns, a bulletproof vest, two handguns, and several allegedly stolen items.
SF News San Mateo Health Officer Says Society Would Need to 'Grind to a Halt' to Stop COVID-19 Dr. Scott Morrow, the chief health officer for San Mateo County, is emerging as our local Angela Merkel — a no-nonsense, no-spin alarm-ringer about the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Murder Victim's Friends And Family Push San Mateo DA to Retry Tiffany Li's Ex It remains to be seen who — if anyone — will go on trial next for the 2016 murder of Keith Green, after a San Mateo County jury acquitted Green's ex-girlfriend Tiffany Li and deadlocked on her alleged accomplice Kaveh Bayat.
SF News Suspect And Second Victim Identified In Dual San Mateo County Stabbing Deaths A suspect was identified Wednesday afternoon in the bizarre stabbing deaths of two male victims on consecutive nights on a remote road in San Mateo County.
SF News Two Apparent Homicides In Two Days Along The Same San Mateo County Road San Mateo County Sheriff's deputies have been on Skyline Boulevard near Woodside two nights in a row for other purposes, and twice they've come upon murder scenes. It's still unclear if the incidents are connected, but it's been a strange couple of nights on this winding, remote, two-lane road.
SF News Prosecutors Reveal New Details In Millbrae Murder Involving Wealthy Woman Now Out On $66 Million Bail “This is all so stupid and sad, and all these lives are ruined,” says Mitri Hanania, an attorney who once represented murdered man Keith Green, speaking to the Associated Press in a revealing
SF News Mountain Lion Snatches Family Dog From Inside Bay Area Home The San Mateo Sheriff's Office is warning residents to lock their doors and windows, after a mountain lion entered the bedroom of an area home and took off with the family dog as
SF News Millbrae Murder Suspect Tiffany Li Posts Unprecedented $35 Million Bail Tiffany Li, the 31-year-old woman at the center of an apparent murder-for-hire case in Millbrae almost one year ago, has with the help of her mother and some wealthy friends posted the $35
SF News Three Suspects In Bizarre Millbrae Murder Plead Not Guilty The trio suspected of killing a young Millbrae father in late April made appearances in San Mateo County court on Wednesday, and all three entered pleas of not guilty, as KRON 4 reports.
SF News Man's Body Found Floating In San Francisco Bay The body of a man found floating face down in the San Francisco Bay has yet to be identified, officials said Thursday morning. At about 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the San
SF News Who Dumped A Gigantic Snake In Pescadero? Update: As many commenters have noted, the snake was not a Burmese Python, as was stated by the Peninsula Humane Society, it was actually a boa constrictor. Here's our follow-up. Days after a
SF News Sailors Helpless After Boat Crashes Into Whale What luck! Five people and a whale are all safe and uninjured in a maritime collision that could have been much, much worse. According to Rebecca Rosenblatt, a spokesperson for the San Mateo
SF News That Burning Plastic Smell? Blame It On Redwood City If you awoke this morning, rubbed the sleep from your eyes and wondered to yourself why your usual Muni stop smells weird — but, like, in a different way than usual — then you can
SF News 'Don Juan Con Man,' Wanted in San Mateo, Nabbed Again In Vegas A fugitive whom authorities have dubbed the Don Juan Con Man, a.k.a. Simon Gann, was arrested in Las Vegas this week and may be extradited to San Mateo County. He has
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
SF News Five San Bruno Families, One Burlingame Lawyer, Bring New Suits Against PG&E Five new lawsuits were brought against PG&E in San Mateo County Superior Court yesterday, with five families affected by the September 9 inferno suing the utility for unspecified damages as well
SF News Carsonist Comes to SFO Yes, yes, this very likely isn't the same carsonist who kept us on our toes for much of last year (or this recent string of 12 arsons in Berkeley), but just on the
misc Crazy Boyfriend Of New SF Planning Director Sets Fire To Firehouse We're a little late to this story, in part because we spent all day yesterday trying to separate out the hilarious comments from the offensive ones on SFGate.com (it looks like the
SF News Doubling Fines Along 19th Avenue Might Somehow Solve Everything State Senator Leland Yee introduced a bill in the State Legislature this morning that, if passed, would see traffic fines double for violations occurring along the deadly strip of San Francisco road known
SF News Speier To Fill Lantos' Seat Making her move at juuust the right time, Jackie Speier is a shoo-in to fill Tom Lantos' seat by April 8 if she gathers a majority of votes in a special, pre-primary election.
misc San Francisco Congressman Lantos, RIP Congressman Tom Lantos died this morning from esophageal cancer at the age of 80. He represented most of the Sunset, as well as a big chunk of San Mateo County. He was the
SF News Norman Hsu Gets Three Years In the Slammer Denied. Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu - who helped raised cash for Mayor Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Fiona Ma, Hillary Clinton, and the victorious Barack Obama - was sentenced to three years in prison
misc Tom Lantos Stepping Down Lantos, who turns 80 this year, is a Holocaust survivor, chairs the House Committee on Foreign Relations (that's gotta be an interesting gig), recently attacked Yahoo for releasing user names to China, and
misc Et Tu, Walgreens? Other than hawking some of the cheapest yet most breakable electronics around, we simply refuse to believe that Walgreen's can do wrong. Just walking thought their aisles of colorful and affordable products makes
