Palo Alto
Armstrong and Aldrin came to Palo Alto for different reasons
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin led very different lives after their historic walk on the moon 50 years ago today (July 20), and each […]
Year: 2019
San Mateo County
Sheriff to put bean-bag guns in all patrol cars
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Bean-bag guns will soon be in every patrol vehicle of the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, according to a report from Sheriff Carlos […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto woman drowns while hiking with family
A Palo Alto woman who had been hiking with her family in Feather Canyon in Plumas County drowned after falling into a creek, according to the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office. […]
Palo Alto
Raging driver throws coffee and pulls gun
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man’s cellphone was stolen after he was threatened with a gun and was doused with cold coffee during a road rage incident […]
Palo Alto
A look at the new Stanford Hospital, opening this fall
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor The new Stanford Hospital is nearly complete and 4,000 employees are preparing to move from the current hospital next door. Workers on Wednesday were […]
Los Altos
Los Altos woman killed in suspected DUI crash
A Los Altos woman was killed in a suspected DUI crash in Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County on Saturday, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash happened […]
San Mateo County
Tesla asked for more records in autopilot DUI case
By the Daily Post staff The DUI case of a Los Altos planning commissioner who was asleep in his Tesla while it was on autopilot has been put off while […]
Palo Alto
Groping on Castilleja Ave. leads to prison
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A man who attempted to sexually assault a woman walking on Castilleja Avenue in Palo Alto has accepted a plea bargain that will […]
San Mateo
Nursing home patient ripped off after she died, caretaker arrested
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The day after a resident of the Sunrise assisted living facility in San Mateo died, a caretaker at the home was using her […]
Palo Alto
Castilleja expansion will create “significant and unavoidable” traffic problems, environmental report says
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Traffic caused by the expansion of Palo Alto’s Castilleja School was identified as a “significant and unavoidable” impact to the neighborhood, according to […]
San Mateo
Police chief retires, says her departure was unrelated to red-light camera scandal
By the Daily Post staff Susan Manheimer is retiring after 19 years as San Mateo’s police chief, days after the city announced it was refunding or dismissing nearly 1,000 red-light […]
In the news
Front page from the 1969 moon landing inside today’s Post
Pick up a print copy of today’s Daily Post for a special treat. The Post has reprinted the front page of the Palo Alto Times from July 21, 1969, which […]
Redwood City
Combatant in fight at Hanky Panky will get up to a year in jail
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A patron of the Hanky Panky strip club who smashed a glass in the face of another man is facing up to a […]
Stanford
Noose found on Stanford campus
By the Daily Post staff Stanford officials said today (July 16) they have launched an investigation into the discovery of a noose hanging from a small tree on campus. Medical […]
Santa Clara County
Stanford defends its lawsuit against the county over housing requirements
BY JEN NOWELL Daily Post Correspondent Stanford is fighting back against Santa Clara County’s motion to dismiss the university’s lawsuit challenging an ordinance forcing the school to build a certain […]
Stanford
3 teens arrested, 1 at large in robbery at Stanford
By the Daily Post staff A robbery on the Stanford campus on Monday (July 15) by four teenage boys led police to surround Palo Alto High School, where three of […]
In the news
Locals restore Apollo 11 computer, get it to run moon-landing program
BY JAMIE MORROW Daily Post Associate Editor Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the moon launch, a group of local computer restoration experts has succeeded in getting a […]
Santa Clara County
Homeless numbers jump 46% in Mountain View, 13% in Palo Alto
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Mountain View has the fourth largest homeless population in Santa Clara County, according to numbers released by the county. During a one-day count […]
Caltrain
SamTrans and Caltrain should improve schedule coordination, grand jury says
By the Daily Post staff SamTrans and Caltrain, whose management is housed in the same building in San Carlos, can do a better job of coordinating schedules to reduce wait […]
Palo Alto
Report on Castilleja expansion due this week
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer An environmental report for the proposed expansion of Castilleja School on Bryant Street in Palo Alto, which has caused neighborhood strife, is expected […]