South San Francisco News

Delivering fruit to Bay Area companies didn't seem like a viable business plan to Chris Mittelstaedt's dad, Bob.

Patch Places A is the spot to find descriptions, hours, accepted payment methods and more for spots around South San Francisco.

Tuition and fees at California State University will be $7,017 next fall, 9 percent more than this year.

But when authorities arrested him Monday, they knew him as Ronald Brewington, a man who allegedly shot and killed 37-year-old Diedre Brewington in her Albuquerque apartment in August 1987.

A South San Francisco man accused of torching cars and a trash bin at his apartment complex before offering to help firefighters extinguish the blazes is facing 16 months in prison after pleading no contest to three felonies.

Heather Murtagh/Daily Journal Victor Saavedra peels back a door of a Nissan Sentra that was cut open using the jaws of life at South San Francisco Fire Station 61 Thursday afternoon.

That talk picked up late last year with the settlement of a lawsuit with Bayer AG and the continued progress of the two experimental cancer drugs.

When Valentine's Day rolls around on Tuesday, Eric Gonzalez will have a gift to celebrate with his wife, Rosario Berenice: a roof over their heads.

Ever come across a new business that made so much sense you said to yourself, "Why didn't I think of that?" Well, here is another one.

Trapped in a world they didn't create, the spacecraft-garage band known to us as The Phenomenauts must surely come from a more evolved time and place, as evidenced by the spiffiness of their natty uniforms -- and the electric jolt of their stage shows.

The owners of Caffino , a drive-through coffee stand in Westborough Square, and a handful of their customers, got up one by one to tell the city council Wednesday night that the business is a strong member of the community that employs students and contributes to local causes.

After announcing his candidacy for San Francisco mayor in August 2010, San Francisco City Attorney and Dogpatch resident Dennis Herrera spent the next 15 months campaigning, eventually coming in third in a crowded field of 16 candidates last November.

Daniel Patterson opened this long-awaited bar next to his popular Plum restaurant in Oakland's Uptown in November, and it's quickly become a destination.

In Sarria, in the north of Spain, Hank and Geri Ryan of Novato browsed through a brochure for travel in the United States, which had a specific suggestion: "Frisco, as the natives like to call it, has many areas of interest." The Ryans grabbed a pen and "in our best high school Spanish, wrote in the margin, 'This is not true' " reports Hank.

When it comes to water, "San Francisco's just a stone's throw away from being a third-world country," said Tyrone Jue, communications director for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission , the municipal agency responsible for water works.

A 53-year-old man was beaten and robbed by two other men in South San Francisco early this morning, police said.

The owners and customers of Caffino , a coffee drive-through in the Westborough Square Shopping Center, are planning to go to the city council meeting tonight to ask for an exception to a zoning ordinance that prohibits new drive-throughs. Mita and Tony Ricks, the owners of Caffino, have to move their business because their lease is up and ... (more)

If it seems like there are more bikes about town - especially on Market Street - it's not your imagination, or even your double vision.

Christina Olague, the newest member of the Board of Supervisors, faces a difficult balancing act.

Mayor Ed Lee wasted no time in swearing in Naomi Kelly, his pick to serveA as San Francisco's new city administrator.