Burlingame News

SAN MATEO - Seventeen-year-old Nicholas Barron loved cars so much and had such a silver tongue that when his grandmother Marlene Ferrigno went to pick out a Cadillac, he came with her.2.7

BURLINGAME, CA : Origen Therapeutics today announced the first published scientific report of fully functional, human sequence monoclonal antibodies produced in chickens.2.7

A San Mateo County judge has approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit that will allow as many as 1.3 million owners of iPod music players to replace defective batteries on Apple's tab.2.7

BURLINGAME - Tomorrow may bring a vote by the Peninsula Healthcare District board of directors on whether to let Sutter Health build a new $448 million hospital in Burlingame after several changes were made to ...2.7

Q. Now I know why you nag home sellers to interview at least three successful agents, check their references of previous sellers, and then list for 90 days with the best one.2.7

Burglary. A car hit a business building on the 3000 block of Rolison Road around 3:47 a.m. Monday.2

A seven-year discussion about exactly what type, size and configuration of 24-hour supermarket the community needs nears its end tonight as the Menlo Park Planning Commission considers zoning law changes that ...2.7

After at least five years of media hype warning that a tectonic societal shift was slowly taking place, it has hit home.2.7

Perhaps as soon as October, a Long March rocket will thrust a spaceship into Earth orbit carrying two Chinese astronauts for a five-day mission.

Landing in inclement weather and fog at Half Moon Bay Airport will soon get easier for pilots, thanks to a series of airport upgrades.2.7

Although the state's $3 billion stem-cell research institute could help companies such as VistaGen Therapeutics of Burlingame find new cures for a range of health problems, it won't bolster California's coffers ...4.1

USI Holdings Corporation announced the closing of the acquisition of Burlingame, Calif.-based retail property & casualty firm operating as Winthrop Insurance Plans.2.7

Burlingame - With gas prices setting record highs and the grumbling by consumers growing louder, experts are blaming tight supplies and increased world demand for the recent spike at local filling stations.2.9

Concluding a thorough, exhaustive search and evaluation process, Redwood City has hired a new Director of Human Resources.2.7

John Lee is pro-choice, pro-stem cell research, pro prevailing wage for workers and he's a Republican , the only one on the San Mateo City Council.2.9

Commercial real estate veteran Rob Paratte specializes in troubled property. Paratte, who was recently named executive vice president, business development/leasing by Divco West Group LLC, views a mostly vacant ...2

BURLINGAME + Students succeed in the classroom when parents team up with teachers to make education a family commitment.3.1

Q. My husband and I purchased our townhouse in 2000. We had been planning to relocate to Florida in June 2006 to live near my family.2.7

There is something to be said for consistency. In restaurants, it's generally a good thing -- it means the kitchen can turn out the same level of quality, technique and style night after night, so diners know ...

San Bruno gears up for the November elections with new faces as the nomination period closed 5 p.m. yesterday.2.7

SAN CARLOS , A handful of city council hopefuls took advantage of extended filing deadlines this week in contests where at least one incumbent has bowed out of the race.2.7

A Burlingame dentist who was "savagely" mauled by his physician neighbors' two dogs has been locked in a nearly yearlong legal battle with his medical colleagues who allegedly blame him for triggering the ...4.1

While taking publicity photos for the Winterthur's new iPod-based audio guide program, Leslie and Leigh Keno used the devices for the first time.2.7

Students' scores are compared to present criteria to determine if the students' performance on the test is advance, proficient, basic, below basic or far below basic.2

Health officials confirmed today the first human case of West Nile virus in Contra Costa County.2.7

It's the carpet for our summer barbecues, a reason for our high water bills in the blistering August heat.2.7

SIXTY years have passed, but June Weden remembers vividly the day the atomic bomb fell, raining fire, ruin, smoke and death on the city where she lived.2.7

SAN CARLOS , Peninsula BART riders using the San Bruno and South San Francisco stations can relax for six months.2.7

I am a physician at the South San Francisco Kaiser Medical Center. I read Kathleen Pender's column about Steven Levitt's book "Freakonomics" . When I started working here in 1980, the assistant manager of the ...2.7

Vector Laboratories, Inc. 30 Ingold Rd. Burlingame, CA, 94010 Website: http://www.vectorlabs.com Mounting Medium Array Technologies / Bioinformatics / Immunological Kits and Reagents VectaMount AQ aqueous, ...1.8

Young Joon Yang, the man indicted last month for allegedly smuggling Korean women into this country and putting them to work as prostitutes, housed the females in as many as 40 apartments in the Golden Gateway ...2.7

The owner of a Foster City painting company has been charged in federal court with failing to pay more than $134,000 in taxes because he paid workers at the Oakland Acorn housing project in cash.

Gilroy - When James Maxwell went searching for a high school to lead, he didn't expect to find a perfect match.2.9

BURLINGAME , Downtown Burlingame is gearing up for this weekend's 13th annual Burlingame Art & Jazz Festival.2.7

The town of Pacifica has many wonderful swimmers. The combination of surfing at local beaches and training at local pools has established Pacifica as a true water sports capital of Northern California.2.7