Palo Alto News

Estelle Chalfin held her first Thanksgiving meal for the homeless in 1985, when she invited 35 people into her downtown Palo Alto sandwich shop, Captain Cosmos, for a dinner she cooked herself.

The Palo Alto Police Department has hired a security company to help monitor the West Meadow Drive rail intersection -- a move the city hopes will discourage emotionally fragile youth from ending their lives there.

Efrain got laid off from his job as a restaurant worker eight months ago and has been looking for steady work ever since.

More Americans are killing themselves on train tracks. Thata s the finding of a new national study on suicides.

Eleven Palo Alto High School students were suspended and about seven more received "consequences" for participating in an Oct.

While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising.

The necklaces spilling out of plastic bags looked like Mardi Gras beads, but a color-coded chart told a different, less festive story.

In the works for more than a year, a new Caffe del Doge coffee shop will open in Palo Alto's downtown Caltrain station on Dec.

San Jose city and transit officials are dreaming of a more bike-friendly city that could become reality for residents as soon as next spring.

Every 16 minutes someone in the United States dies by suicide, fliers from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention say, and every 17 minutes "someone is left to make sense of it." To help those who have lost friends or family members to suicide, the foundation is hosting its 11th annual National Survivors of Suicide Day on Saturday.

You can't see it from the street, checkered as it is with empty storefronts and vacancy signs.

Six-year-old Lisa Xavier loved to draw comic strips, collect bugs and ride her pink Barbie bicycle.

Palo Alto police are stepping up enforcement of seat belt laws now through Nov. 30, joining more than 175 other California law enforcement agencies in a nationwide campaign to get people to buckle up.

At birth, children with Down syndrome aren't developmentally delayed. But as they age, these kids fall behind.

The victim of a Nov. 12 sexual assault by two men near the footbridge to Palo Alto at the southern end of Alma Street in Menlo Park is being "very, very uncooperative" with investigators from the Menlo Park Police Department, police said.

The owners of Palo Alto's Edgewood Plaza shopping center are asking something unusual of neighborhood residents: their cooperation on a major redevelopment project.

A two-alarm fire damaged one unit in a condominium complex near downtown Palo Alto early Tuesday morning and forced the evacuation of 25 people, but a neighbor may have helped stop the flames from causing further damage.

Police in Menlo Park are still trying to locate a person of interest in Thursday afternoon's hit-and-run crash that killed a 6-year-old girl and seriously injured her mother.

A man forced his way into a Mountain View woman's apartment through a closed window early Saturday morning, held her at gunpoint and forced her to drive to a bank and withdraw cash for him, police said.

A girl severely injured in a hit-and-run involving a racing vehicle has died while police continue to search for a suspect who could be headed to the Central Valley.