East Palo Alto News

Samson So takes a well deserved break as he and several other teenagers work on the Skyline Trail in Huddart Park in San Mateo County on Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

There is a fire in East Palo Alto near Daisy Lane. Firefighters are gaining control of the fire.

Relatives of a cab driver who was shot and killed in East Palo Alto last week are struggling to raise money for the 31-year-old man's funeral and can't understand why anyone would want to harm a devoted family man seemingly liked by everyone.

Menlo Park police responding to a report of an auto burglary in progress on Thursday, July 2, in the 200 block of Willow Road arrived on the scene shortly after 7:15 p.m., set up a perimeter and observed a man attempting to hide in the bushes, police said.

Lawyers for a group of grocers have appealed the East Palo Alto Planning Commission's decision to grant a liquor license and building permits for what would be the city's only full-scale supermarket.

Police in Fremont have arrested a carjacking suspect wanted from an incident reported last month.

Delores Cunningham heard the shots Thursday night, but like other residents of Hunter Street in East Palo Alto, she thought it was someone setting off fireworks.

Lawyers representing the East Palo Alto Police Department's landlord have deposed the city manager, public works director and other officials over the past two weeks as part of a lawsuit against the city for almost $166,000 in extra construction and engineering costs.

Thirty-two San Mateo County nonprofit organizations will share $1 million in "safety net" grants from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the county, the Foundation announced today.

East Palo Alto will commemorate its 26th birthday and the country's Independence Day with a parade and community celebration on July 4. The festivities will begin 9 a.m. at Cesar Chavez Elementary School with parade-goers leaving the school around 10 a.m. for a march to Martin Luther King Park, Mayor Ruben Abrica said.

A boyfriend and girlfriend charged in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man on Christmas Day in 2007 have pleaded not guilty in San Mateo County Superior Court, a deputy district attorney said Monday.

San Mateo County Sheriff's deputies were looking for two male juveniles suspected of attempted homicide.

Federal stimulus funds and layoffs of support staff helped Ravenswood City School District, which has schools in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto, pass a 2009-2010 operating budget Thursday night that is 9 percent below last year's. "This has been a very difficult and challenging year in terms of constant reductions in our budget," Superintendent ...

Bulldozers were poised Wednesday to begin clearing a vacant lot that has been a homeless encampment of tents, lean-tos and hand-dug caves for nearly seven years.

More than a dozen homeless people have been evicted from a makeshift encampment they had set up on a privately owned lot in East Palo Alto.

Palo Alto police on Wednesday tracked down a computer stolen from a Walter Hays Elementary School classroom earlier this month and arrested a young East Palo Alto man on suspicion of possessing stolen property.

An East Palo Alto subsidized housing development that opened to much fanfare in 2006 has been plagued by problems, including urine-soaked carpeting, smashed windows and lights, and building access issues that some tenants attribute to poor management and inadequate security.

Two well-known East Palo Alto police detectives are leaving the force, but the department has hired three officers and is on track to be fully staffed for the first time in its history, police said Monday.

The East Palo Alto Police Department is purchasing 10 video cameras to install in patrol vehicles by the end of this summer.

An East Palo Alto man remained in stable condition Tuesday after his cousin stabbed him over the weekend during an alcohol- and drug-fueled fight, police said.