San Mateo County News

A 62-year-old man who shot a woman in the hand and then held her at gunpoint for two hours inside his East Palo Alto apartment on Dec. 24, 2011 was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail, which the judge said he can serve at home with electronic monitoring.

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.

Two men struck and killed by BART trains in separate incidents less than eight hours apart Tuesday were identified Wednesday, though officials were not certain how they ended up on the tracks.

Enjoy airport tours, dozens of unique aircraft on display, food trucks, bounce houses and children's play area, exhibits and vendors and free airplane rides for kids from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at San Carlos Airport.

Recent posts include the Board of Supervisors honoring the 4-H Youth Development Program of California on its 100-year anniversary and a poll by the San Mateo County Youth Commission asking if you support lowering the voting age.

Police in several cities in San Mateo County are out today enforcing traffic laws after a string of deadly pedestrian accidents.

As part of its first two-year budget cycle, county officials yesterday adopted a resolution keeping the funds in place until final approval this fall.

The aftershocks of a late April afternoon collision continue to ripple through Menlo Park a year later: Two women who had been traveling in a car struck by a train at the Ravenswood crossing are now suing the city, the county, Caltrain and the state.

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.

San Mateo alleges Parkson Corp., a Florida-based municipal water and sewage treatment equipment maker, didn't hold up its end of the bargain in a 2005 project, according to a suit filed Monday in San Mateo County Superior Court.

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.

A couple was warned to stay off the train tracks while they took wedding engagement photos on the 1100 block of California Drive in Burlingame before 8:11 p.m. Sunday, June 9. Suspicious person.

The Colma BART station remained closed late Tuesday morning because of a death on the tracks there, according to transportation officials.

Woodside Town Council members are upset about how deputies from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office handled -- or did not handle -- a June 9 bike tour when hundreds of cyclists passed through town and reportedly jammed the intersection of Woodside and Canada roads for hours.

A split vote kept leaders of the San Mateo County Community College District from filling a vacant seat on the board Monday night, instead instructing staff to ask applicants previously excused to do an in-person interview later this week.

The American Council on Education and Great Britain-based Pearson, one of the world's largest publishing and education companies, has developed a new GED Test.

The San Mateo County Times ran a great piece by one of their regular syndicated columnists, Marni Jameson , on Saturday.

A South San Francisco man and his wife were part of a ring that brought women from the East Coast and pimped them out on a circuit of illicit Northern California brothels, authorities said.

The county should spend $10 million worth of sales tax revenue in the next two fiscal years to provide subsidized child care through a proposed Early Learning and Care Trust Fund, according to a recommendation by County Manager John Maltbie coming before the supervisors Tuesday.

Well, there was a bit before that. The partnership of Trio Hikers wine really began in 2005 when Joe Vella, 73, asked a couple friends Bob Nafziger, 76, and Joe Ruggiero, 74, if they would be interested in going on a hike.