Belmont News

Of the 22 "Tinsley kids" who graduated from Gunn and Palo Alto high schools in June, 21 reported plans to go on to college, according to Palo Alto Unified School District officials.

The University of Phoenix and former admissions recruiters at its San Jose campus have settled a years-long dispute over whether the school used high-pressure recruiting tactics to enroll unqualified students and violated federal law by paying salaries based on the number of students it enrolled.

Two people were killed in separate traffic crashes this morning on San Mateo County roadways.

A Belmont man was killed today in a four-car crash on southbound Highway 101 just north of University Avenue in East Palo Alto, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Facing a deepening budget hole, San Carlos officials are considering taking some drastic measures in the coming year, such as closing parks and community centers, laying off police officers and turning off streetlights.

Local law enforcement agencies are joining in a statewide effort to curb drunken driving during the holidays by hosting sobriety checkpoints all over the Peninsula.

San Francisco, which was at the vanguard of the anti-smoking movement more than a decade ago when it became one of the first American cities to bar people from lighting up in the workplace, now is poised to enact much tougher restrictions on smoking in public places.

BILL DICKENSON'S final meeting Monday night as a member of the Belmont City Council was a warm and - by San Mateo County standards - star-studded affair.

THE CREATIVE PATHS of eight Bay Area painters are explored in "Road Trip," an exhibition on view through Jan.

Medical marijuana clubs have been getting a major buzzkill from new regulations in San Mateo County.

First there was William Scott Simon of Belmont, who recently racked up his eighth drunken-driving conviction .

Embattled City Councilman Bill Dickenson will step down from the council tonight, capping a four-year term in which he was arrested twice and sentenced to 20 days in jail for beating his ex-girlfriend. Dickenson, who decided not to run for a second term in November's election, will be replaced by former Councilman Dave Warden during a City Hall ...

An injured mountain biker was rescued from a recreation area in Belmont on Friday morning.

The driver whose high-speed collision into a Belmont couple's van during a road race last year left the husband brain damaged and his wife injured was sentenced Friday to a year in jail and five years probation.

Andrew Scheiner/Daily Journal Director of Operations Rick Bowman and Lisa Thomas of ComForcare.

Vision Selling Systems announced Monday that RVA dealers in Arizona and California have added Visiona s real-time interactive negotiation softwareA to their websites.

A former San Mateo police officer who plowed into a woman's car after drinking at a party while off-duty with other cops faces up to 20 days in jail after cutting a deal with prosecutors.

The city is looking to become the latest Peninsula community to install synthetic turf to give sports teams more time to play, although planners may have to rely on the state to fund the project.

The injuries sustained by a woman who was found dead inside a Ford Explorer in Belmont on Saturday night may have been self-inflicted, police said today.

A 49-year-old Redwood City woman was found dead in a Ford Explorer in Belmont on Saturday night, according to the Police Department.