Redwood City News

It's 5:30 a.m. and the tempting aroma of coffee wafts up the stairs inside Adult Beginnings care home.

A San Mateo County Superior Court judge will decide Monday morning whether a 26-year-old man who murdered East Palo Alto police Officer Richard May in 2006 will receive the death penalty or life in prison without the chance for parole.

Drinking water could flow to a huge proposed housing development on the Redwood City salt flats under a complex series of series of agreements between water agencies stretching from Kern County to the Peninsula, an environmental consultant told the city council.

More than six years after the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Sikh cabdriver in Redwood City - a killing other Peninsula cabbies feared was a hate crime - the trial of the man accused of his murder is set to begin Monday.

Mountain View police have released a sketch of a man who sexually assaulted a 26-year-old woman as she took out her trash late last month.

Any commuter who uses Marsh Road to get to U.S. 101 -- and there are quite a few of them -- could tell you about the white knuckles they've developed, waiting to enter the freeway on their way to work.

The news that U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, is eyeing a run for state Attorney General has Peninsula political pundits buzzing about who might covet her congressional seat if she were to give it up.

Orthopedic doctors are increasingly seeing injuries from people using smartphones, mainly from people slumping over to use the devices.

Former Palo Alto mayor Yoriko Kishimoto has given her state Assembly campaign a $40,000 loan to help her compete in a tough three-way Democratic primary race to replace Ira Ruskin, D-Redwood City, in the 21st District.

January 27 , 2010 - As part of Redwood City Verde, the City's environmental program, Redwood City is recruiting groups of neighbors to form Verde Teams which will join together and implement tools to save energy and water in their households.

BMX bikers soon will be fenced out of a popular Redwood City skate park. The city is finishing plans to build a 6-foot-tall, black steel fence around the perimeter of Phil Shao Memorial Skate Park, more than two years after officials first pledged to do so.

A man apparently inspired by a news report on Open Carry gun activists strolled into an East Palo Alto supermarket with a handgun on his hip Wednesday and began shopping for groceries, police said.

California lawmakers seeking to give college students a break took aim Thursday at corporations that dodge taxes by stashing their profits in foreign banks.

Share + Jan 27, 2010 12:08 pm US/Pacific CBS 5 CrimeWatch REDWOOD CITY A 20-year-old man who was allegedly carrying a gun during a shooting at Skyline College in San Bruno has struck a deal with prosecutors.

San Carlos experienced a "very significant" uptick in crime last year, with more robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and thefts than in 2008, police Chief Greg Rothaus said Friday.

Brian Bothun, a former editor for the Palo Alto Daily News and former reporter for the Daily Post, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of possession of pornography on Friday , said San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

Chanting and waving signs, San Mateo County court workers rallied Wednesday outside the courthouse in Redwood City, calling for an end to statewide court furlough days.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Poverty and joblessness aren't the only factors keeping Mexican immigrants in the United States from returning to their home country.

A Redwood City man was sentenced to 14 years in prison this week after pleading no contest to two charges of child molestation.

The legal odyssey of Nano Maldonado - a Redwood City man who argued that California's Outdoor Advertising Act is unconstitutional - ended in defeat this week at the U.S. Supreme Court.