Palo Alto
City to pay $572,500 to settle suit over police beating caught on video
By the Daily Post staff The city of Palo Alto has agreed to pay $572,500 to a Buena Vista Mobile Home Park resident who was beaten by a Palo Alto […]
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East Palo Alto
Former shopping center site in East Palo Alto sold for $42 million
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Redwood City
School parcel tax loses by a thin margin
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Palo Alto
Community opens wallets for family of lineman who was electrocuted
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer More than 550 people have donated $64,000 to the family of a Palo Alto Utilities lineman who was electrocuted. Donatus Okhomina, 42, an […]
Palo Alto
Locally-owned neighborhood pharmacy is closing
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Maximart Pharmacy at 240 Cambridge Ave. is shutting its doors tomorrow after four decades of filling the prescriptions of Palo Altans. Jack Morton, […]
San Mateo County
Students, faculty at Canada College worried new gym will become a private club
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The San Mateo County Community College District Board on Wednesday (Nov. 20) will hear from students and teachers at Canada College who are […]
Palo Alto
Programmers try clumsy power plays on ‘Silicon Valley,’ Season 6, Episode 4
BY JAMIE MORROW Daily Post Associate Editor In last night’s episode of HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” plot took a backseat while power plays took the stage. Weird, awkward power plays among […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto’s HP Inc. rejects takeover offer from Xerox
HP Inc. said today (Nov. 17) its board rejected a $33.5 billion takeover offer from Xerox. The Palo Alto-based company said that the cash and stock deal undervalues its business […]
Palo Alto
Lineman who was electrocuted is identified, was a father of 4
The Palo Alto Utilities employee who was electrocuted yesterday has been identified as Donatus Okhomina, a father of four, Air Force veteran and seasoned electrical lineman. Okhomina, 42, of Dixon, […]
Stanford
New Stanford hospital welcomes first patient
Stanford Health Care opened the doors to its new Stanford Hospital today (Nov. 17) and moved around 200 patients to the new facility across the skybridge that connects the new […]
Redwood City
Sewer agency puts Dan Child’s former home on the market — two bidders
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The sewage processing agency that paid its former general manager $875,000 to leave his job without suing has now received two bids for […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto Utilities worker electrocuted
By the Daily Post staff A Palo Alto Utilities Department lineman was killed this morning (Nov. 16) while working on an electrical transformer at 670 E. Meadow Drive near Middlefield […]
Hillsborough
Tiffany Li acquitted of murder
A jury today (Nov. 15) found a Hillsborough real estate heiress innocent of killing the father of her two children in 2016 in an alleged conspiracy with her boyfriend. Tiffany […]
Menlo Park
Yelp’s wrong, Flegels is open
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer Even though rumors and websites such as Yelp claim that Flegels in downtown Menlo Park has closed, Manager Brian Flegel says the long-standing […]
Obituaries
Barbara Jean Jensen
November 9, 1927 – November 7, 2019 Barbara Jean Jensen passed away peacefully in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, just two days before her 92nd birthday. Barbara was […]
San Carlos
San Carlos minimum wage to rise; council backs away from rent caps
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer San Carlos City Council has passed a law requiring landlords to only evict tenants for “just cause,” and it took a step toward […]
Hillsborough
Defense asks for a new trial in the Tiffany Li murder case
By EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The attorneys for Tiffany Li and her boyfriend Kaveh Bayat asked for a new trial yesterday (Nov. 23), saying that jurors in the […]
Los Altos
Consultant says City Council can’t return to City Hall, but she won’t say why
BY SARA TABIN Daily Post Staff Writer Los Altos City Council last night suspended the contract of a disability consultant after she told council that they can’t move back to […]
Palo Alto
Parks and Rec commission recommends pilot program to open Foothills Park to non-Palo Altans
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission last night (Nov. 12) recommended that City Council should ease up on the rule that only […]
Palo Alto
Plan to chop down trees behind Fletcher Middle School is put on hold
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto’s Public Works Department has paused a plan to remove 16 trees and prune 100 more on a half-mile bike path behind Fletcher Middle […]