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A San Mateo County Superior Court judge sided with the prosecution Wednesday and remanded into custody a well-known former child psychiatrist who pleaded no contest in May to molesting boys during examinations in the 1990s.
Stuart James Forrest, 61, was found guilty of two counts of possession of child pornography, according to Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman for the attorney general.
Firefighters in San Mateo were able to douse a three-alarm blaze of a structure early Monday morning, San Mateo County fire officials said.
Mohamed Lahna removes the prosthetic he uses for everyday activity, attaches another to his right leg worn specifically for running, then takes off around the bright blue track at the College of San Mateo among all the lunch-hour walkers and joggers.
A mountain lion was reported in Emerald Hills in unincorporated San Mateo County on Friday morning and county officials urge people not to approach the animals, according to the Office of Emergency Services.
Police were searching for a reckless driver who dangerously evaded authorities in downtown San Mateo on Saturday.
Firefighters battled a one-alarm blaze at a home that was under construction in San Mateo Thursday
After years of legal wrangling, Dr. William Hamilton Ayres, an 81-year-old former San Mateo psychiatrist accused of molesting boys during examinations in the 1990s, admitted to the charges against him Thursday.
Conflicting accounts emerged Monday from the driver and a surviving passenger as to exactly what happened when a stretch limousine burst into flames on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, killing five women and injuring four others.
San Mateo County election officials announced Thursday that 65 uncounted provisional ballots from November's election were found last week in a vault at the department's headquarters.
A gas line break at Third Avenue and El Camino Real in downtown San Mateo had the large intersection shut down while crews worked to fix the line Wednesday morning, San Mateo police Sgt. David Norris said.
A father of seven was being credited with saving his family from a 2-alarm fire at a residence in San Mateo early Wednesday morning, fire officials said.
Police were investigating three home burglaries that occurred in a Belmont neighborhood Friday and appear to be connected to a string of recent burglaries in San Mateo and Hillsborough.
San Mateo police arrested a Los Altos man on child pornography charges this week after he was seen hanging around gymnastics classes taking photos of young children with his mobile phone.
A former Aragon High School water polo coach convicted of sexually abusing a student collapsed to the floor of a San Mateo County courtroom Wednesday morning when he was sentenced to two years in state prison for his crimes, the district attorney said.
A shooting victim who was found early Tuesday morning near a Denny's restaurant in San Mateo was likely wounded in a gang-related shooting in Salinas on Monday evening, a Salinas police spokesman said.
Uniformed and plainclothes police officers were patrolling the grounds of a San Mateo high school Thursday morning in light of a threat that was made to the school through a social media site this week.
The driver of a Volkswagen Jetta was killed in a head-on crash on state Highway 92 outside of Half Moon Bay Monday morning, a California Highway Patrol spokeswoman said.
San Mateo County authorities were investigating a report of a mountain lion sighting near San Carlos' Arguello Park on Wednesday night.
A man who was accused of killing East Palo Alto activist David Lewis in 2010 was ordered back into custody Tuesday, three weeks after a San Mateo County Superior Court judge released him on his own recognizance.
A 3-year-old boy tumbled out of the second-story window of a San Mateo home Monday evening in what a police sergeant said Wednesday was a "tragic accident."
A new type of school, for would-be entrepreneurs, is coming to downtown San Mateo. The City Council late Monday night approved a plan to open Draper University for Heroes.
An alleged attempt to use fraudulent gift cards in a downtown San Mateo store this week led to the arrest of five San Jose residents on counterfeiting, drug and weapon charges.
A gun buyback event in San Mateo Saturday collected more than 680 firearms, including 24 assault weapons, 338 hand guns and 371 long guns, according to Congresswoman Jackie Speier.
A San Mateo man is facing charges for running what's being described as an illegal gun sales operation out of his home.
