San Mateo Daily Journal

PAYWALL FREE STORY: San Mateo police are investigating reports this week of three separate shootings, one unconfirmed, believed to be connected to the homicide that took place the morning of Friday, Oct. 30, in the 19th Avenue Park neighborhood.

Not sure that’s your friend: Someone hit their friend and attempted to hit their friend’s wife in Redwood City, it was reported at 8:31 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17.

On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected President of the United States as he defeated John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen Douglas.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Warm and dry conditions Thursday across California will give way to distinctly cooler and wet weather heading into the weekend, the National Weather Service said.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A 20-year-old man shot by Oakland police during a violent confrontation with officers responding to reports of a group of people trying to rob a marijuana grow business died at the scene, authorities said.

WASHINGTON (AP) The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 751,000, a still-historically high level that shows that many employers keep cutting jobs in the face of the accelerating pandemic.

The world likely can't keep global warming to a relatively safe minimum unless we change how we grow, eat and throw away our food, but we don't need to all go vegan, a new study says.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) In the battle for control of the U.S. Senate this year, the Deep South is fielding more Black candidates than it has since Reconstruction.

WASHINGTON (AP) Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a campaign legal strategy to attack the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean President Donald Trump's

A man was shot in the face in the parking lot of a hotel in Redwood City early Thursday morning, police said.

Election officials in key battleground states pushed back on claims by the Trump campaign that Republican poll watchers were being improperly denied access to observe the counting of ballots, saying Thursday that rules were being followed and they w

WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low near zero Thursday and signaled its readiness to do more if needed to support an economy under threat from a worsening coronavirus pandemic.

Two days later, an uneasy United States is still waiting to hear who will be its next president. With Democrat Joe Biden pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win, President Donald Trump's campaign has attacked the integrity of