SAN CARLOS — A former employee of a San Carlos-based nonprofit organization is accused of embezzling roughly $700,000 over a 13-year period, according to prosecutors. On Thursday, Clarise Ann Blanchard, 76, of Foster City, pleaded not guilty to charges including embezzlement, forgery and identity theft, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. An attorney … Read more
Visitors walk through the Deacon Dave light display. Deacon Dave’s display has grown to include nearly 880,000 lights, the most of any home display in the Bay Area. Douglas Zimmerman/SFGate.com As winter solstice approaches and the nights get longer, brilliant — and extravagant — holiday displays are a beacon of light, brightening the darkest, coldest … Read more
A Veev worker looks on as a crane lowers a fabricated wall. Veev’s mission to make home-building faster with these walls ran up against financial struggles. Courtesy of Veev Veev, a Hayward-based company that raised hundreds of millions of dollars to “reimagine the home experience from the ground up,” is preparing to shut down. Veev’s … Read more
Karina Castro, 27, was killed in San Carlos on Sept. 8, 2022. GoFundMe/Handout A man was found guilty Monday of beheading a Bay Area mother of two in a domestic violence murder that shocked the region. According to her father, Karina Castro, 27, was confronted outside her San Carlos residence by her ex-partner Jose Rafael Solano … Read more
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. REDWOOD CITY — Jurors have reached a guilty verdict in a notorious murder case against a man charged with beheading his child’s mother on a San Carlos street last year in front of several bystanders, capping a bizarre trial in which the defendant was accused of … Read more
SAN CARLOS — A 61-year-old Oklahoma woman was sentenced Thursday to 18 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a San Carlos store owner during a robbery more than 30 years ago, prosecutors said. Rayna Ramos, also known as Rayna Hoffman, pleaded no contest on Sept. 27 to one count of second-degree murder and … Read more
REDWOOD CITY — A grisly murder case in which a man was charged with hacking his child’s mother to death with a sword — virtually beheading her — is now in the hands of a jury, following a bizarre trial that reached a fever pitch when the defendant abruptly refused to speak halfway through his … Read more
REDWOOD CITY — A man charged with beheading his child’s mother with a sword in San Carlos last year appeared to go into a stupor and become completely nonresponsive to a prosecutor while taking the stand Monday, prompting a judge to call off the rest of the afternoon’s trial proceedings. The bizarre occurrence immediately elicited … Read more