Colma News

" Alive in Necropolis ," a new book by my pal Doug Dorst comes out July 17th and already been building the proverbial buzz, including Amazon touting the release as a " book of the month ." "Alive" is a, uh, ...

The highest number and dollar value of scholarships to date was awarded from the Al Teglia Jobs for Youth Endowment Fund to 11 youths May 29 at the 26th Annual Jobs for Youth Fundraising/Awards Breakfast at the ...

These are excerpts from Peninsula police departments' daily log of activities. Incidents are listed by city.

McGrath, who has been with the town for 61 2 years, announced her retirement Monday.

You might not know Deryk Daquigan personally, but you may still have encountered his work just by driving or taking a shower.

Amrull's selflessness is making it all the more difficult for his family to understand why the 50-year old man was shot in the stomach and killed early Thursday around the corner from his home.

When thinking of the plague, one might conjure images of 14th-century English villagers surrounded by rats and fleas, perhaps dragging swollen corpses out to a cart to the cry of "Bring out your dead!" One ...

The Turnaround by George Pelecanos, A detective writer's detective writer, Pelecanos isn't the crime-fiction world's best-kept secret anymore, much to the chagrin of his devotees.

Asilk thread seams together the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, the tarot, feminism, and Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer whose impresario activities in the early 20th Century promoted American modernism and ...

State officials have called off the much-maligned aerial sprayings in populated areas they had planned to restart later this summer to combat the invasion of the light brown apple moth.

More than forty years into his career as an antiquarian bookseller , Larry McMurtry has paused to reflect on a life hawking secondhand tomes in Books: A Memoir.

What seemed to be a winning idea instead caused a 71-year-old man to be tricked by two Spanish-speaking women into giving them $3,000 in cash and jewelry, police said.

The DALY CITY-COLMA Chamber of Commerce will present its 55th annual Cypress Business Awards and 10th annual Installation Dinner, "Chamber of Treasures," from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. June 19 at Lake Merced Golf and ...

AN EMOTIONAL ovation greeted chef Grant Achatz of Chicago's Alinea restaurant when he was named outstanding chef for 2007 at Sunday night's James Beard Foundation Awards ceremony in New York City.

So, yeah....As has already been announced, I tanked it at the James Beard Awards.

Golden Gate National Cemetery staff invites the public to its flag retirement ceremony at 11:30 a.m. June 14 at 1300 Sneath Lane at Interstate 280 in San Bruno.

Over 100 people gathered at the Japanese Cemetery in Colma, Calif., on Memorial Day to pay tribute to Japanese Americans buried there.

Voters may be focused on Tuesday's primary, but one man has his eyes set on the November election.

As the first surge of baby boomers began retiring earlier this year, the fact hit home that this huge demographic bulge is about to change San Mateo County dramatically.

A 20-year-old Marin County woman was arrested Thursday in connection with the slaying of a Hells Angels associate last weekend near Corte Madera, authorities said.