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May 09, 2008

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Friday May 9

Audit: Sex offenders overlooked

An audit that found one registered sex offender living in an East Palo Alto foster care home and another in a San Francisco child care facility proves that regulatory agencies need to do a better job of ...

Friday May 9

Performing with heart, soul & spine

In the two years before her operation, the teenage Chinese singer Jiahuan Zhang could no longer perform.

Friday May 9

Residents and parents discuss Oak Knoll plan

Scores of parents and Menlo Park residents packed the auditorium at Oak Knoll School on Thursday night to support, and oppose, a plan by the Menlo Park City School District to renovate its western-most campus.

Friday May 9

Barn fundraisers going after big bucks

As fundraising efforts get under way to match Los Altos Hills' $880,000 contribution for restoring the town-owned barn, organizers of the private campaign are asking the city council what incentives they may ...

Friday May 9

Murder suspect says he panicked

A 26-year-old Daly City man accused of stabbing another man to death following a San Francisco Giants game in 2004 renewed his self-defense claim on the stand Thursday morning, testifying that he panicked and ...

Friday May 9

Defendant ID'd as shooter in fatal shooting

Two Hayward men sat quietly in orange jail suits and shackles Thursday during a preliminary hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court while a friend identified them as being connected to the fatal shooting and ...

Friday May 9

City to hold workshops on digital TV conversion

People who will be affected by the digital television conversion next year can get help learning about converter boxes at free monthly workshops hosted by the city of Palo Alto.

Friday May 9

Perseverance pays off

No obstacle proved big enough to derail Leopoldine Matialeu from her education. Not her background, growing up in her poor native Cameroon in west-central Africa, where her high school had no library and no ...

Friday May 9

Lobbyists give money for Papan mailings

Fundraising for the state Assembly 19th District race took a new twist in recent days when three statewide lobbyist groups began pouring almost $200,000 for mailings supporting Democratic candidate Gina Papan.

Friday May 9

County considers allowing retirement fund loans

To help its employees through financial hardships, San Mateo County soon may allow them to borrow from their deferred compensation accounts.

Thursday May 8

Stanford gets $43.5M study grant

California's stem cell agency Wednesday awarded nearly $271 million in grants to build stem-cell laboratories statewide, with more than $126 million of that designated for universities and other research ...

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