San Bruno News

A man who was driven by mental illness to beat a young father to death with a pipe wrench was ordered Wednesday to be committed indefinitely to a state mental hospital, a prosecutor said.

Most Sandwich residents who attended a National Grid open house Tuesday expressed concerns over the safety of a gas transmission main proposed for just north of Service Road.

Authorities say a South San Francisco man and his wife have been charged with bringing women from the East Coast to a circuit of brothels across Northern California.

CPUC president Michael Peevey accepts safety award from union representing PG&E and that did not sit well with at least one San Bruno resident.

A Central Valley man is charged with breaking into a San Bruno school where $40,000 in laptop computers were stolen in March after police found his blood there, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Laura Lopez was taking pictures of the Vargas family dressed in full Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costumes in front of the state Capitol on Sunday morning.

Someone reported that his downstairs neighbor may be sending prostitutes to his house on the 400 block of San Bruno Avenue West in San Bruno before 1:50 p.m. Thursday, June 13. Suspicious person.

Students in Crestmoor Elementary School's last fifth grade class took turns individually sharing lessons and thanking those who helped along the way Friday.

A convicted sex offender once committed to a state hospital as a violent predator will stand trial in September for allegedly flashing a mother and child at a Christmas tree lot and later, while out on bail, reportedly harassing several San Bruno children.

Disputing a previous official explanation, a top regulatory attorney said Friday that he and two colleagues never asked to be taken off a legal team working to determine PG&E's role in the deadly 2010 San Bruno explosion.

Two Oakland men face armed robbery charges for allegedly using BB guns to take $12,000 in jewelry from a woman in a parking garage outside the Target store in San Bruno.

After two limo fires and our own investigation catching a driver breaking the law, we ask, who's keeping an eye on the industry? Lawmakers and people within the industry claim some companies are cutting corners and putting lives at risk because they can.

Millbrae has worked successfully to maintain a balanced, albeit lean, budget in recent years - a accomplishment that Mayor Gina Papan said was achieved through community support.

The accident, which involved a 9L-San Bruno bus and the F-Market and Wharves streetcar, happened around 11 a.m. at Market and Sixth streets.

The top students at Alma Heights Christian Academy warmly reflect back on their high school years, or perhaps they are filled with memories about the great cookies the valedictorian baked.

An F-Line trolley and a 9L-San Bruno bus struck each other at 11:04 a.m. in the area of 6th and Market streets, said Paul Rose , a Muni spokesman.

On Thursday, the San Mateo Union High School District Board of Trustees will vote to close Peninsula High School starting July 31 and reopen the San Bruno campus as Peninsula Alternative High School, a school of choice, Aug. 1. Changing from a continuation to an alternative school won't create visible changes at Peninsula High this fall.

Last week brought yet more evidence that the California Legislature needs to remind the Public Utilities Commission that it works for the people.

A refinery explosion earlier this year made Texas an easy target for regulatory mockery, but while many Californians have pointed wagging fingers due east, Texans could rightly wag right back at our own dyspeptic regulatory model of the fox watching the henhouse, the California Public Utilities Commission.

San Francisco, CA, June 10, 2013 - The City of San Bruno filed its legal arguments with the California Public Utilities Commission to levy the maximum financial pre-tax fine and penalty of $3.85 billion against Pacific Gas & Electric Co.