Family of Jail Inmate Who Died Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Sues City

Family of Jail Inmate Who Died Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Sues City

The family of a man who died while being strip-searched in a San Bruno jail by San Francisco sheriff’s deputies and saying “I can’t breathe”…

U.S. Judge Dismisses Some Charges Against PG&E But Says Seriousness Of The Case Is Not Diminished

U.S. Judge Dismisses Some Charges Against PG&E But Says Seriousness Of The Case Is Not Diminished

A federal judge in San Francisco Wednesday dismissed 15 of 28 pipeline-safety-related criminal charges against PG&E Co., but said his action doesn’t affect the seriousness…

Video Released of San Bruno Armed Robbery Prior to Suspect Being Killed by SFPD

San Bruno police released video surveillance footage today of an armed and apparently suicidal man who robbed a sporting goods store of a shotgun Wednesday…

Suspect Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting Believed To Have Stolen Shotgun In Earlier Robbery

Suspect Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting Believed To Have Stolen Shotgun In Earlier Robbery

Police in San Francisco this morning continue to investigate a Wednesday officer-involved shooting that left an armed suspect dead. Officers responded at 4:15 p.m. to…

PG&E Files Motions Seeking Dismissal of All Federal Criminal Charges it Faces

PG&E Files Motions Seeking Dismissal of All Federal Criminal Charges it Faces

PG&E has filed a barrage of motions in federal court in San Francisco, seeking dismissal of all of the 28 criminal charges it faces for…

Former SFPD Officer Arrested for Embezzlement, Grand Theft

Former SFPD Officer Arrested for Embezzlement, Grand Theft

A San Francisco police officer, who resigned earlier this year after the launch of an internal investigation stemming from alleged misuse of a city-owned vehicle,…

Regulator to Begin Probe of PG&E Corporate Culture

Regulator to Begin Probe of PG&E Corporate Culture

An investigation into whether corporate culture and governance at PG&E is responsible for persistent safety problems at the gas and electric utility company was launched…

CPUC Considers Probe Into How PG&E Operates Following Safety Problems

CPUC Considers Probe Into How PG&E Operates Following Safety Problems

The California Public Utilities Commission is considering an investigation into whether PG&E’s culture and governance have contributed to safety issues including the deadly San Bruno…

CPUC Imposes Record $1.6B Penalty on PG&E, President Says CPUC Failed to be Vigilant

CPUC Imposes Record $1.6B Penalty on PG&E, President Says CPUC Failed to be Vigilant

The California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco today imposed a record $1.6 billion penalty on PG&E Co. for a fatal pipeline explosion in San…

CPUC to Decide Thursday on PG&E Penalty of up to $1.6B for San Bruno Explosion

CPUC to Decide Thursday on PG&E Penalty of up to $1.6B for San Bruno Explosion

Four and one-half years after a fatal pipeline explosion in San Bruno, the California Public Utilities Commission is set to decide in San Francisco Thursday…

San Bruno Leaders Support $1.6B Penalty for PG&E in Explosion and Records Case

San Bruno Leaders Support $1.6B Penalty for PG&E in Explosion and Records Case

San Bruno officials announced today they support a proposed increased $1.6 billion penalty and fine for PG&E Co. for a fatal 2010 pipeline explosion in…

CPUC Proposes Larger $1.6B Fine for PG&E in San Bruno Pipeline Case

CPUC Proposes Larger $1.6B Fine for PG&E in San Bruno Pipeline Case

California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Picker today proposed increasing to $1.6 billion a penalty imposed on PG&E for safety violations related to a fatal…

Inmate Who Died in SF County Jail Identified

Inmate Who Died in SF County Jail Identified

The death of a 57-year-old inmate on Monday morning at a San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno remains under investigation. The inmate, identified as…

Judge Orders PG&E To Hand Over Email Correspondences With CPUC to San Bruno

Judge Orders PG&E To Hand Over Email Correspondences With CPUC to San Bruno

PG&E Co. was ordered by an administrative law judge today to give the city of San Bruno by Jan. 30 almost all of 65,000 emails…

PG&E Discloses 12 New Email Chains, Says it Will Release 65,000 Messages in February

PG&E Discloses 12 New Email Chains, Says it Will Release 65,000 Messages in February

PG&E Co. today made public 12 new sets of email messages that it said appear to show violations of rules against back-channel communications with regulators…

San Bruno Asks PUC to Order Release and Review of 65,000 Emails Between PG&E and PUC

San Bruno Asks PUC to Order Release and Review of 65,000 Emails Between PG&E and PUC

The city of San Bruno asked the California Public Utilities Commission today to order PG&E Co. to release 65,000 email messages exchanged between PG&E and…

PG&E Set to Appeal $1.4B Pipeline Safety Penalty

PG&E Set to Appeal $1.4B Pipeline Safety Penalty

PG&E Co. announced in San Francisco today it will appeal a record $1.4 billion pipeline-safety penalty and fine to the California Public Utilities Commission. The…

San Bruno Mayor Questions Allocation of PG&E Penalties For 2010 Pipeline Explosion

San Bruno Mayor Questions Allocation of PG&E Penalties For 2010 Pipeline Explosion

The mayor of San Bruno commended the California Public Utilities Commission today for its unprecedented fine of $1.4 billion against PG&E for a deadly gas…

PG&E Hearing Reveals Ongoing Additional Grand Jury Investigation

PG&E Hearing Reveals Ongoing Additional Grand Jury Investigation

Defense and prosecution attorneys revealed at a hearing in PG&E Co.’s criminal case in federal court in San Francisco today that a grand jury is…

Expanded Indictment Accuses PG&E of Obstruction of Justice in San Bruno Probe

Expanded Indictment Accuses PG&E of Obstruction of Justice in San Bruno Probe

PG&E Co. was charged in a revised grand jury indictment in San Francisco today with a new criminal count of obstructing justice in a probe…

City of San Bruno Seeks Removal of CA Public Utilities Commission President for Alleged Misconduct

City of San Bruno Seeks Removal of CA Public Utilities Commission President for Alleged Misconduct

San Bruno officials called on Gov. Jerry Brown today to remove California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey from office, alleging that recently disclosed emails…

Operating Practices Violations: PG&E Braces For Federal Criminal Charges

Operating Practices Violations: PG&E Braces For Federal Criminal Charges

PG&E Co. and its parent corporation announced today they expect to be hit with federal criminal charges related to a fatal pipeline explosion in San…

Legislators Grill California Public Utilities Commission In Safety Hearing

Legislators Grill California Public Utilities Commission In Safety Hearing

Two leaders of the California Public Utilities Commission assured legislators at a hearing in San Francisco today that the agency is doing its best to…

Senate Subcommittee To Take California Public Utilities Commission To Task Over San Bruno Blast Response

Senate Subcommittee To Take California Public Utilities Commission To Task Over San Bruno Blast Response

A state senate subcommittee will meet Monday in San Francisco to hear testimony on the California Public Utilities Commission’s efforts to improve utility safety in…

CA PUC Member Wants To Up PG&E’s Sketchy Recordkeeping Fine To $17.25 Million

CA PUC Member Wants To Up PG&E’s Sketchy Recordkeeping Fine To $17.25 Million

A California Public Utilities Commission member today proposed a fining PG&E Co. $17.25 million—about two and one-half times the amount proposed by a hearing officer—for…

Judge Proposes $6.75 Million Fine For PG&E For Sketchy Pipeline Recordkeeping

Judge Proposes $6.75 Million Fine For PG&E For Sketchy Pipeline Recordkeeping

A state administrative law judge in San Francisco today proposed fining PG&E Co. $6.75 million for delaying and then mischaracterizing its correction of significant errors…

PG&E Won’t Face Local Criminal Charges Over San Bruno Blast, Federal Case Still Possible

PG&E Won’t Face Local Criminal Charges Over San Bruno Blast, Federal Case Still Possible

Local prosecutors have decided not to pursue criminal charges against PG&E for the 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, though the U.S. Attorney’s Office…

San Bruno, Three Years After Deadly PG&E Blast

San Bruno, Three Years After Deadly PG&E Blast

Nearly three years after a PG&E gas pipeline exploded in San Bruno, the city’s mayor said today that residents are still rebuilding their devastated neighborhood,…

PG&E Responds Angrily To Proposed $300 Million Fine For San Bruno Blast

PG&E Responds Angrily To Proposed $300 Million Fine For San Bruno Blast

California Public Utilities Commission lawyers urged two administrative law judges today to recommend fining PG&E at least $300 million, to be paid to the state’s…

CPUC Lawyers Propose Revised San Bruno Blast Penalty, Including $300 Million Fine For PG&E

CPUC Lawyers Propose Revised San Bruno Blast Penalty, Including $300 Million Fine For PG&E

The California Public Utilities Commission’s Safety Division urged two administrative law judges today to recommend ordering PG&E to pay at least a $300 million fine…

CA PUC’s Legal Team Wants To Withdraw PG&E’s $2.25 Billion Fine

CA PUC’s Legal Team Wants To Withdraw PG&E’s $2.25 Billion Fine

A newly reinstated legal team at the California Public Utilities Commission has told two administrative law judges it wants to withdraw a controversial plan for…

San Bruno Officials Want $3.85 Billion Penalty For PG&E

San Bruno city officials today called for a $3.85 billion penalty to be levied against PG&E for a deadly 2010 pipeline blast and called a…

San Bruno Officials Upset Over Reassignment Of Legal Team Investigating Deadly PG&E Blast

The city of San Bruno is calling for the California Legislature and the state attorney general to investigate the reassignment of a legal team charged…