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Days when locals are competing in the Olympics
BY AMELIA BISCARDI Daily Post Staff Writer Olympians are looking to make a splash in Paris with 44 of 592 total athletes having connections to the Palo Alto and Mid-Peninsula […]
San Mateo County
Mental health advocates calls for inquiry into 5 jail deaths
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor Five inmates in the San Mateo County Jail have died since Sheriff Christina Corpus took over in January 2023, and now a mental health […]
San Mateo County
Outside expert says staffing shortage in Sheriff’s Department is critical; service reductions recommended
BY ELAINE GOODMANDaily Post Correspondent Staff shortages in the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office have placed the department at a “critical juncture” in which employees’ “workload and schedule cannot be […]
Palo Alto
Anne Cribbs throws hat in the ring for council
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Anne Cribbs, an Olympic swimmer and parks commissioner who is behind the push for a city-owned gym, has filed papers to run for Palo […]
Caltrain
Caltrain to keep track suicides secret
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Caltrain is no longer providing details about people who are hit by the train, keeping any suicides under wraps. Caltrain employees made the […]
San Mateo County
County to pay $8 million to settle sex harassment suit filed by former deputy
San Mateo County has reached an $8 million settlement with a former sheriff’s deputy and SWAT team member who filed a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit in 2022, alleging she […]
Redwood City
Attempted kidnapping at high school
A man who said he had a gun went into a classroom at Sequoia High School yesterday, grabbed a male student and tried to pull him out of the room, […]
Palo Alto
Two cars stolen from Palo Alto home, one was in a closed garage; 2 arrests
Palo Alto police say they have arrested two people who are accused of breaking into a home’s garage on Newell Road and driving off with two vehicles. The theft happened […]
Palo Alto
Thieves steal gold necklace from woman’s neck
A Palo Alto woman in her 80s was the victim of a jewelry swap theft, police said. The woman was approached by two men in a car on Saturday asking […]
East Palo Alto
City to take over sewer district despite lawsuit
BY ELAINE GOODMANDaily Post Correspondent The city of East Palo Alto is moving forward with its takeover of the East Palo Alto Sanitary District, even as the district is battling […]
Opinion
Opinion: Lythcott-Haims should step down from City Council
OPINION By Dave Price Daily Post Editor Julie Lythcott-Haims should have leveled with the voters two years ago about why she left her job as a dean at Stanford following […]
Palo Alto
Lythcott-Haims explains affair in her own words
Julie Lythcott-Haims issued a statement yesterday in response to an essay by her former lover. See related story. “Recently, Olivia Haas published a piece describing her relationship with her college […]
Palo Alto
Local House members, candidates avoid Biden question
The Mid-Peninsula’s two members of the House and both candidates for Anna Eshoo’s congressional seat won’t say if they think President Biden should stay in the race for president. Assemblyman […]
Palo Alto
Palo Alto City Manager’s salary among the highest in the state
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Manager Ed Shikada was the sixth-highest paid city manager in California last year, according to a report by California State Controller […]
Palo Alto
Judge dismisses police officers’ lawsuit over mural
This story was first printed in Thursday morning’s Daily Post. Other media have since plagiarized it. If you want important local news first, and you want the original story, pick […]
Palo Alto
Councilwoman Lythcott-Haims had an affair with an undergrad while she was a dean at Stanford
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto Councilwoman Julie Lythcott-Haims had an affair with a female undergrad half her age while she was a dean at Stanford, leading […]
Palo Alto
Henry Etzkowitz, who favors rent restrictions to benefit seniors, has entered the council race
Henry Etzkowitz, who said he led a successful pushback against an expected rent increase at the Stanford Oak Creek Apartments in 2022, has jumped into the Palo Alto City Council […]
Redwood City
Redwood City won’t be voting on rent control
Proponents of a measure to impose rent control in Redwood City have failed to gather enough valid signatures to put the referendum on the November ballot, the San Mateo County […]
San Mateo County
Driver in Devil’s Slide crash released
BY AMELIA BISCARDI Daily Post Staff Writer The Southern California radiologist who drove his Tesla over Devil’s Slide on Highway 1 near Half Moon Bay with his family in the car […]
East Palo Alto
Fireworks seized, arrests made on Independence Day
East Palo Alto Police arrested three people and responded to 135 incidents during Independence Day, city officials said yesterday (July 8) The 27 officers working on the holiday seized four […]