http://www.topix.nethttp://www.paloaltodailynews.com en-us Copyright 2008, Topix http://www.topix.net/ http://www.topix.net/pics/topix_homepage_logo2.png http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-epa-offenders 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 ... Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:10:00 GMT By Banks Albach / Daily News Staff Writer padn/2008-5-9-epa-offenders http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-pa-zhang-jiahuan In the two years before her operation, the teenage Chinese singer Jiahuan Zhang could no longer perform. Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:09:00 GMT By Kristina Peterson / Daily News Staff Writer padn/2008-5-9-pa-zhang-jiahuan http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-mp-oak-knoll 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. Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:08:00 GMT By Banks Albach / Daily News Staff Writer padn/2008-5-9-mp-oak-knoll http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-lah-westwind 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 ... Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:07:00 GMT By Melanie Carroll / Daily News Staff Writer padn/2008-5-9-lah-westwind http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-bcn-29 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 ... Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:06:00 GMT Bay City News padn/2008-5-9-bcn-29 http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-bcn-53 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 ... Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:05:00 GMT Caitlin Cassady / Bay City News padn/2008-5-9-bcn-53 http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-bcn-17 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. Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:04:00 GMT Anne Ward Ernst / Bay City News padn/2008-5-9-bcn-17 http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-rwc-grad 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 ... Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:03:00 GMT By Neil Gonzales / Bay Area News Group padn/2008-5-9-rwc-grad http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-smc-papan 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. Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:02:00 GMT By Shaun Bishop / Daily News Staff Writer padn/2008-5-9-smc-papan http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-9-borrow To help its employees through financial hardships, San Mateo County soon may allow them to borrow from their deferred compensation accounts. Palo Alto Daily News Fri, 09 May 2008 12:01:00 GMT By Shaun Bishop / Daily News Staff Writer padn/2008-5-9-borrow http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2008-5-8-stan-stem 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 ... Palo Alto Daily News Thu, 08 May 2008 12:10:00 GMT By Steve Johnson / Bay Area News Group padn/2008-5-8-stan-stem