San Mateo County News

A man who turned 18 in March could spend the rest of his life in prison for fatally shooting another teen last year.

A Colorado doctor who illegally prescribed anti-depressants to a Stanford University student who later committed suicide was sentenced Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court to house arrest at his Colorado home.

A San Mateo County Superior Court judge heard a motion Monday to limit or prevent psychiatric testimony in the trial of a man accused of fatally shooting East Palo Alto police Officer Richard May in January 2006.

The San Mateo County Community College District has started to turn students away because of an ongoing enrollment surge coupled with deepening budget cuts.

Closing arguments are expected Wednesdays in the trial of Atherton public works supervisor Troy Henderson, a 33-year employee of the town who is facing misdemeanor assault and battery charges for allegedly attacking an Atherton police officer.

Witnesses reported that a Walnut Creek woman and her daughter were nearly saved Monday by onlookers before drowning in the waters off Montara State Beach, a San Mateo County Sheriff's Office spokesman said.

Authorities say a woman and a 5-year-old girl have died after they were swept away in the waters off a beach in San Mateo County.

San Mateo County Sheriff's deputies were looking for two male juveniles suspected of attempted homicide.

A vehicle went down a steep embankment near westbound state Highway 92 in unincorporated San Mateo County Sunday night, blocking the highway for more than four hours, a California Highway Patrol officer said this morning.

San Mateo County school districts are projecting lean budgets for the new academic year, and they may become even leaner.

Since San Mateo County departments are being asked to cut their budgets, supervisors should reduce their spending too, Board President Mark Church said this week.

An expert in child and adolescent psychiatry testified Friday that there was no medical reason for the genital exams Dr.

Jason Everett Keller, 40, was found not guilty Thursday of attacking another homeless man, Stephan Fava, on the 200 block of Grand Avenue about 1:45 p.m. March 30.

A San Mateo County Superior Court judge plans to decide Wednesday whether a Colorado doctor, who was sentenced to nine months in jail for illegally prescribing anti-depressants to a 19-year-old Menlo Park resident who later committed suicide, will serve his sentence in California or Colorado.

A man accused of attacking two Redwood City police officers who responded to a domestic violence call Monday night was charged Wednesday with 15 felonies and four misdemeanors.

San Mateo County supervisors should have allowed voters to fill a vacant supervisor seat instead of appointing Carole Groom to the post, a civil grand jury said in a report this week.

The molestation trial of former San Mateo child psychiatrist Dr. William Ayres resumed Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court with testimony from men who have accused the doctor of sexually abusing them as children.

With a week left before San Mateo County cuts the wages of in-home supportive services workers by $1 per hour, the employees' union has filed a grievance against the county to block the action.

A man who accounted for more than half the molestation charges against child psychiatrist Dr.

Residents of a Redwood City mobile home park where a small fire broke out early Monday morning speculated that it might be related to residents' frustration with the park's ownership.