The parents of a fourth-grader are suing multiple county agencies, claiming that sheriff’s deputies interrogated and traumatized their son after school officials accused him of making violent threats days after the Virginia Tech massacre.

Officials expressed cautious optimism Wednesday as a bill designed to rescue their city from financial strain squeaked through its first legislative hoop.

Restaurant patrons in the city will no longer see glasses of water automatically appear on their tables while they study the menu.

With Styrofoam food containers permanently scrapped, San Mateo County supervisors on Tuesday turned their attention to their next environmental project: a “green collar” job training program for the county’s unemployed.

Did someone say good, clean fun? That’s the order of the day with the national tour of Disney’s “High School Musical,” which rolled into San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre for a two-week run, and moves to San Jose in June.

Environmentalists and the state Coastal Commission are teaming up to fight an exemption in state environmental laws that would settle a legal dispute between Half Moon Bay and a real estate developer.