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Palo Alto fire chief takes job in Santa Barbara
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto Fire Chief Eric Nickel is resigning and will take the job of fire chief in Santa Barbara, the city announced today (Nov. 20). […]
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Post wins 15 awards in Press Club contest
By the Daily Post staff The Daily Post’s newsroom received 15 awards in the San Francisco Press Club’s Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards competition, including honors for investigative reporting, entertainment […]
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Burglar wearing Phantom of the Opera mask hits 4 businesses
By the Daily Post staff Police in Palo Alto are searching for a man who donned a Phantom of the Opera mask during a burglary spree of four businesses downtown, […]
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Dauber, Dharap win school board election
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Even with more than 52,000 ballots left uncounted across Santa Clara County, attorney and Gunn High School graduate Shounak Dharap appears to have […]
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City’s chief information officer under fire over trips
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto’s jet-setting chief information officer is being criticized for his frequent travel paid for by foreign governments and commercial interests, which a […]
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School district’s legal bills soar — $6 million over 5 years
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto school district has spent almost $6 million on lawyers in the last five years, according to a list of expenses […]
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Police arrest man in connection with Compadres fire and a second vehicle fire
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police said today (Nov. 11) that they have arrested a man accused of torching the abandoned Compadres Mexican Bar & Grill on El […]
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Fire breaks out at former Compadres restaurant on El Camino
Firefighters are battling a two-alarm fire tonight (Nov. 10) at 3877 El Camino Real, the onetime Compadres Mexican Bar and Grill. El Camino is closed in both directions between Curtner […]
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Christine Blasey Ford will receive city proclamation privately
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council won’t be presenting a proclamation to Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford at a public meeting in the council […]
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Fire breaks out in attic of Palo Alto home
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto firefighters extinguished an attic fire at 4190 Willmar Drive a few minutes after midnight this morning (Nov. 9). Nobody was home when the […]
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Sea lion waddles into town
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Animal Services Superintendent Cody Macartney found himself in an unusual position yesterday morning: wrangling with a 200-pound California sea lion that […]
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Purse snatching reported at Stanford Shopping Center
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police are looking for two men who snatched a woman’s purse at Stanford Shopping Center. It happened on Sunday at 4:01 p.m. outside […]
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Council candidate Cormack gets a big boost from Guardino PAC and a landlords group
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Alison Cormack’s campaign for Palo Alto City Council has gotten a $46,836 boost with campaign mailers paid for by the California Apartment Association […]
Election 2018
School board member Todd Collins targets candidate Kathy Jordan over her dealings with student paper
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto school board member Todd Collins, who is in the middle of his first term and isn’t on the ballot Tuesday, has […]
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Lawsuit says boy got a concussion from attack at JLS
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The mother of a JLS Middle School student has sued the Palo Alto school district claiming that violence at school left her son […]
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Hydrogen fueling station opens
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer People who want to drive non-polluting cars, rejoice: the Barron Park Shell station in Palo Alto is poised to open the first hydrogen […]
Election 2018
Contractors, architects and Laurene Powell Jobs fund school bond measure campaign
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The campaign for Measure Z, a $460 million bond measure that would benefit Palo Alto’s public elementary schools, has received $68,883 in campaign […]
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Teacher arrested for sex with minor after she’s spotted on an adult video
BY EMILY MIBACH Daily Post Staff Writer A teacher in Redwood City and Palo Alto has been arrested after a Woodside High School student watched a porn video and recognized […]
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5 Palo Alto City Council candidates raise a combined $253,186
BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The five candidates for Palo Alto City Council have raised a total of $253,186.70 in campaign contributions — an impressive amount historically, but […]
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Man loses $2,450 in Amazon scam
By the Daily Post staff A Palo Alto man lost $2,450 to a scammer who called him claiming to be a fraud investigator for Amazon, according to police. Around 1:10 […]