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Police find carjacked motor home, suspect arrested
Palo Alto police said today they have arrested the suspect who carjacked a motor home in the Ventura neighborhood last week and returned the stolen vehicle to the victim, who […]
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Cal Ave. may remain closed to cars for another year
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council will consider leaving California Avenue closed to cars for another year while a consultant studies the future of the […]
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Motorcyclist killed on 101 in Palo Alto
One person is dead after a motorcycle hit several vehicles on northbound Highway 101 just past San Antonio Road in Palo Alto, the CHP said. At 2:42 a.m. Saturday, a […]
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Motorhome carjacked while owner was asleep inside
Palo Alto police are looking for a tan Ford motorhome that was carjacked on the 400 block of Matadero Avenue early this morning, while the owner was asleep inside. At […]
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Lythcott-Haims waited two months after she was elected to ask state agency about speaking fees she was collecting
This story was originally published in the print edition of the Daily Post on Wednesday, April 12. If you want to stay on top of local news, pick up the […]
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Purse snatching attempted in Midtown
A man tried to snatch a woman’s purse in the Midtown neighborhood of Palo Alto but was scared off — the second such incident in that area in nine days, […]
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School gets crossing guard after boy is hit by car
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department has assigned a crossing guard to Escondido Elementary School after a 12-year-old boy was hit by a car, […]
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Sen. Feinstein, after a long career in San Francisco and national politics, dies at age 90
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the “Year of the Woman” and broke gender barriers throughout her long career […]
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Cause of Midtown fire proves elusive
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Firefighters have been unable to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed four businesses in the Midtown Shopping Center of Palo Alto. […]
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City’s employee pension shortfall grows to $553 million
BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent The city of Palo Alto is sinking into a deeper financial hole when it comes to employee pensions, with a pension shortfall of $553 […]
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Parents push for traffic safety around schools
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Parents at Escondido Elementary School packed the community meeting room at Palo Alto City Hall yesterday to demand the city and school district […]
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City raises natural gas prices in an attempt to smooth out rate spikes
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted last night (Sept. 18) to raise natural gas rates starting next month so that bills don’t spike as […]
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Palo Alto will get $5 million to fight retail theft at Stanford Shopping Center
By Emily Mibach Daily Post Staff Writer For the past couple of years, TV newscasts have featured groups of shoplifters looting stores in California and running out with expensive merchandise. […]
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Palo Altan Christine Blasey Ford, who testified against Brett Kavanaugh, will release a memoir
The Palo Alto professor who testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir. Christine Blasey’s Ford’s “One Way […]
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Plans to redevelop Fry’s site approved
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council unanimously approved a development agreement tonight (Sept. 12) with the Sobrato Organization that locks in the development of 15 […]
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Mosquito spraying set for Thursday night
Workers will use trucks spray pesticides in south Palo Alto and a small part of Mountain View on Thursday (Sept. 14) for two to four hours starting at 10 p.m. […]
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Developer proposes five-story apartment building for teachers in the Ventura neighborhood
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council was excited tonight (Sept. 11) by a proposal to build 44 apartments for teachers in a five-story building on […]
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Independent auditor says facts omitted from police report on chase
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A Palo Alto police officer drove through six intersections without stopping and passed two large trucks in a car chase down Sand Hill […]
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Mike’s resolves rent dispute, will stay open
Mike Wallau, owner of Mike’s Diner Bar in Palo Alto’s Midtown neighborhood, said today he will remain in business after a disagreement with his landlords was resolved. The news comes […]
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Superintendent Austin says critics are loud but don’t represent the views of most residents
By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer Superintendent Don Austin says that the Palo Alto Unified School District has a group of around 30 people who speak out loudly and […]