Palo Alto
Binder named new police chief
By the Daily Post staff City Manager Ed Shikada has recommended that Acting Police Chief Andrew Binder, a 25-year veteran of law enforcement including seven years in Palo Alto, become […]
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Caltrain
Person killed on Caltrain tracks
A Caltrain struck and killed an unidentified person near West Meadow Drive at 4:47 p.m. Saturday (July 23). No word yet on whether the person intentionally stood in front of […]
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Vicki Veenker, former Assembly candidate and patent attorney, jumps into City Council race
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Lawyer Vicki Veenker, who lost a hotly contested race for state Assembly to Marc Berman, announced her campaign today (July 20) for Palo […]
Palo Alto
$12,000 taken from luluemon, four arrested
By the Daily Post staff Organized thieves frequently hit the lululemon stores in the Stanford Shopping Center and in downtown Palo Alto. On Sunday, police were able to arrest four […]
Palo Alto
Robbery attempted at University Ave. bus station
By the Daily Post staff A man in his 60s told police that he was threatened by a would-be robber who was riding a bike at the Palo Alto Transit […]
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6-story apartment complex proposed on El Camino
This story was first published in Saturday’s Daily Post. If you want to get the important local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. […]
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Police say a teen girl, high on drugs and alcohol, broke into house and laughed when owner told her to leave
By the Daily Post staff A runaway teen has been arrested after breaking into a home in Palo Alto while she was on drugs, police said. The 15-year-old entered a […]
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Housing development proposed behind Town and Country
This story first appeared in the Friday, July 1, print edition of the Daily Post. If you want to get the important local news first, pick up the Post in […]
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Pickpocket caught taking wallet out of purse
By the Daily Post staff The man and woman in this picture are suspected of trying to steal the wallet of a woman who was walking down El Camino Real […]
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Wife of former Los Altos City Manager paid to resign cities association to settle lawsuit
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Cities Association of Santa Clara County has reached a separation agreement with its former executive director, who is the wife of former […]
Palo Alto
Another possible candidate for City Council
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Another candidate has filed paperwork to explore a bid for Palo Alto City Council. Hope Lancero, 56, a medical researcher at Stanford, filed […]
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Higher pay lures Palo Alto police away
By BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department is seeing an exodus of police officers leaving for higher pay, more opportunity and a shorter commute to […]
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Power restored to Stanford after three-day outage
Three days after a power outage knocked out electricity to nearly 9,000 PG&E customers in San Mateo County Tuesday — an outage that also included sprawling Stanford University — a […]
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Woman says rape by P.E. teacher in 2001 has led to life-long trauma
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A PE teacher who allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl in a locker room at Greene Middle School — before she was old enough […]
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Snubbed councilwoman votes against business tax; support dropping
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer After negotiations with business leaders went nowhere, the Palo Alto City Council has put off a decision until August on whether to put a […]
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Three consider jumping into City Council race
This story first appeared in Monday morning’s Daily Post. If you want to get local news first, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. BY BRADEN […]
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Woman in her 70s attacked on downtown street; suspect is a transient
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A homeless man attacked a woman in her 70s in downtown Palo Alto, sending her to the hospital with injuries to her head, […]
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Justin Murphy named new Menlo Park City Manager
By the Daily Post staff Justin Murphy, currently Menlo Park’s interim city manager, will become the city’s next permanent manager, City Council decided today in a closed session, according to […]
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PE teacher arrested for alleged sex assault of middle school student
By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police arrested a physical education teacher this afternoon (June 15) on an arrest warrant charging him with sexually assaulting a sixth-grade female student […]
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Two charged in robbery of Cal Ave. smoke shop
By the Daily Post staff Two men who were allegedly part of a group of smash-and-grab robbers that hit stores throughout the Bay Area have been charged in the robbery […]