San Mateo

Firms find way around major Internet artery

2001-07-21 00:00:00

Technicians continued yesterday to clean up the wreckage not just in the Howard Street tunnel, but on the information superhighway. LAI Construction Services Inc. of Baltimore was completing yesterday a new fiber-optic loop around the downtown tunnel,...

Phone lines, Internet inundated

2001-09-12 00:00:00

Telephone networks and Internet news sites were swamped yesterday as people searched for information and the whereabouts of family and friends after the terrorist attacks on New York and suburban Washington. Phone companies urged customers to refrain...

Plane Passenger Arrested For Wearing Saggy Pants

2011-06-16 17:21:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- A passenger's refusal to pull up his saggy pants led to his arrest Wednesday aboard a US Airways flight at San Francisco International Airport, according to police. The passenger, Deshon Marman, was charged with trespassing, battery...

Presentan el cartel de la feria taurina de los sanfermines 2011

2011-06-03 00:00:00

Air passenger arrested in saggy pants dispute

2011-06-17 20:21:06

Northern California cat thief has 'purr-loined' hundreds of shoes, towels, even bikinis

2011-06-20 01:54:00

CA cat thief 'purr-loins' hundreds of treasures

2011-06-20 09:01:00

SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — A prolific cat burglar has stolen hundreds of precious possessions from homes near San Francisco. But police are staying off the case — the burglar really is a cat. Dusty, a 5-year-old feline from San Mateo, has...

Today's death notices - 6/22/2011

2011-06-22 14:54:00

Death notices and obituaries submitted for tomorrow's newspaper:Dorothy Espeland, 84, of Glenham, formerly of San Mateo, Calif., died Monday. Myrtle Lepp, 79, of Lehr, N.D., died today, Wednesday. Peggy Schaunaman, 79, of Sioux Falls, formerly of...

Dorothy Espeland

2011-06-23 01:30:33

Selby: Funeral services for Dorothy Espeland, age 84, of Glenham and formerly of San Mateo, Calif., will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 24, 2011, at Norway Lutheran Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of Kesling Funeral...

Football Player Thrown off Plane for Having Saggy Pants

2011-06-16 19:13:00

College football player Deshon Marman, 20, was kicked off a plane at the San Francisco International Airport Wednesday when he refused to pull up his pants. The Captain of U.S. Airways Flight 488 said he wouldn’t fly with Marman on the flight...

8th Victim Identified in San Bruno Blast

2010-09-28 13:57:00

SAN BRUNO -- Officials say an eighth victim has died from the gas line explosion that consumed a Northern California neighborhood earlier this month. The San Mateo County coroner's office said Tuesday it was notified of 58-year-old James Emil Franco's...

Did PG&E Cause the San Bruno Explosion?

2011-01-15 16:00:00

That deadly natural gas explosion last fall in San Bruno may not� have been a simple accident.� According to the San Francisco Chronicle, PG&E pushed the pipeline to its limits; along with close to a dozen others.� One possible reason: PROFITS.�� The...

The San Mateo County Coroner has confirmed San Bruno resident Elizabeth Torres was killed in an explosion last Thursday that left four people dead and three people missing.

2010-09-14 13:56:08

Abercrombie & Fitch exacerbated local anger by rejecting a recent request by local business leaders to open a Hollister Co. outlet in downtown Hollister.

2009-04-23 16:12:41

The debate as seen from an electronics store in San Mateo, Calif.

2008-10-02 00:00:00