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A state Board of Parole Hearings panel Monday night once again denied parole for one of three men — all from wealthy families in Atherton and Portola Valley — who in 1976 kidnapped a busload of schoolchildren from Chowchilla in the Central Valley and buried them in a quarry in Livermore.
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Menlo Park police are searching for two men in their late teens or early 20s, one armed with a knife, who robbed the Le Boulanger restaurant in downtown Menlo Park on Sunday night and injured an employee during a struggle.
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JetBlue and the Transportation Security Administration admit no wrongdoing.
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When school lets out for summer, Laurel School principal Nancy Hendry will be leaving for good. Ms. Hendry, who has led the Atherton elementary school for the past 19 years, announced on Jan. 5 that she plans to retire in June.
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Tomiko Bailey, who painted this picture of the Carmel Mission, is among eight new artists showing works at the Portola Art Gallery in Menlo Park during January.
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Harold S. Luft says he has the cure for the nation’s ailing health care system. The director of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute has penned a new book explaining his solution, and will be discussing it and signing copies at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, at Kepler’s, 1010 El Camino Real in Menlo Park.
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A Bay Area wildlife rescue organization is investigating why an inordinate number of sick and deceased adult brown pelicans have been found along the California coast since Wednesday. Rebecca Dmytryk, who operates the rescue nonprofit WildRescue with her husband Duane Titus, said more than 50 recently deceased adult brown pelicans have been recovered from San Diego to San Francisco.
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With the recent spike in foreclosures putting a higher burden than ever on the Peninsula’s temporary housing agencies, the largest of those organizations might be forced to close its Menlo Park facility.
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Sean MaherbrOakland Tribune @ January 5, 2009 # Comments Off
Family’s attorney calls for $25 million lawsuit, calling the incident ‘the most unconscionable shooting” he has ever seen.
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Two Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA.