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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 ...
Performing with heart, soul & spine
In the two years before her operation, the teenage Chinese singer Jiahuan Zhang could no longer perform.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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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