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Advanced Placement United States History students can now say they met the writer of their textbook after Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Kennedy spoke to them Tuesday, May 21 at Palo Alto High School, discussing the importance of history in their lives.

An associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University has been charged with felony parent abduction after taking her three children on what authorities contend was a one-way trip to the Hawaiian Islands.

Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the appointment of Patricia Guerrero and Michael J. Popkins to judgeships in the San Diego County Superior Court.

Among factors that predicted the likelihood that patients undergoing bariatric surgery would experience postoperative cardiopulmonary complications were low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and high levels of C-reactive protein, a researcher reported here.

Patagonia Palo Alto is screening "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet" tonight, May 22 at 6 p.m. The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, recounts the history of the environmental movement.

Meg Donohue celebrates the release of her second novel, "All the Summer Girls," the story of three friends reunited amidst unraveling lives and the secrets that surface in the beach town of of their youth.

Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Society Explorer in Residence, called Her Deepness by The New Yorker and The New York Times , Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and first "Hero for the Planet" by Time Magazine , will be speaking at Northeastern University on May 22, 2013.

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A school-sponsored trip to Japan sparked a love for all things Japanese in Chris Hart, a 13-year-old African-American teenager from Palo Alto.

FLEMING'S ON THE MOVE ... Big plans are on the horizon for Fleming's Steakhouse at Stanford Shopping Center.

At its meeting on Thursday, the Faculty Senate heard a panel of faculty discuss the future of the PhD degree.

A lawsuit has been filed by Menlo Park physician Dr. Jean W. Gillon over an incident in the early morning darkness of Dec.

A Palo Alto High School student publication's description of how two victims of sexual assault were treated by their friends and other students has led to an examination of what responsibilities the school may have to protect the victims from such harassment.

Bay Area scientists believe they have discovered the Typhoid Mary of the frog world: a flat, feral creature that carried a deadly fungus from Africa to California's ponds and puddles through global trading.

From the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry , University of California, San Francisco, CA; Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, PLA, Chongqing, China ; and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA .

It would have been much easier to simply tear down the 1909 Craftsman that caught Azar Lohrasbpour's eye as she was taking a shortcut through Crescent Park to work one day in 2008.

Cover letters and rA©sumA©s could soon be things of the past thanks to one Mountain View, Calif.

An estimated 30,000 people made their way to the Eucalyptus Grove last weekend for the annual Stanford Powwow.

Alba Holgado, lauded for seeing the humor and positive side of work, even when the days are hectic and situations are challenging, has been awarded a 2013 Amy J. Blue award.

Under the Influence Louis Dominguez, 41, unknown city of origin, 9:40 a.m. April 20, at Saich Way and Alves Drive in Cupertino , for misdemeanor being under the influence of alcohol, drugs or a controlled substance.