San Mateo

”It’s very tragic anytime somebody does got out of their way to do something and puts themselves in peril," CHP Sgt. Kurtis Waldschmidt said.

It’s a case investigators have poured over since 1976. A counselor in the group home Rocha was living at in San Mateo reported the 17-year-old missing after she never returned from a part-time job in San Francisco.

The California Highway Patrol said the fatal crash occurred on the Peninsula Avenue off-ramp from northbound U.S. Highway 101 in San Mateo at 3:57 a.m.

San Mateo police are investigating a shooting in a store parking Monday afternoon that left one person injured. 

Talbot’s Toyland in San Mateo has been attracting kids and adults since the 1950s but store owners have announced that the city's only toy store is closing.

The sighting was reported shortly after 9 a.m. in the 200 block of West 39th Avenue near San Mateo Medical Center, according to police.

The accident reported at 1:48 a.m. about one-half-mile west of the toll plaza, where a 25-year-old woman was in a black 2014 Volkswagen Jetta sedan stopped on the right shoulder.

Barberini is a lifelong resident of San Mateo County and his experience with the area during a 25-year career in law enforcement was a major factor in his selection, City Manager Drew Corbett said.

Noah Winchester would find a potential victim who had committed some minor offense. Then he would make sure none of his fellow officers were in the area and that no major incident was happening that might require his participation and take advantage of that time to commit his crimes, prosecutors said.

The jury found Noah White Winchester of Stockton guilty of 14 counts related to the rapes, which he committed while working for the San Mateo and Los Rios Community College police departments from 2013 to 2015, according to prosecutors.

Two suspected auto burglars were arrested after a search of a San Mateo neighborhood early Thursday morning, police said. A resident of the 4000 block of George Avenue called police after he noticed two men casing for unlocked cars.

There is new video of three masked thieves making off with thousands of dollars in merchandise from the Apple Store at the Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo Thursday night. Police are investigating and seeking the suspects who got away in a car.