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May 09, 2008

Local News

Friday May 9

Audit: Sex offenders overlooked

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 ...

Friday May 9

Middle school boot camp

A Peninsula businesswoman is showing middle school students they don't have to put themselves through punishing workouts to get in better shape.

Friday May 9

Lobbyists give money for Papan mailings

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.

Friday May 9

County opens post-foster home

San Mateo County officials unveiled a new housing triplex Thursday designed to aid former foster youths who have "aged out" of the system by turning 18.

Friday May 9

County considers allowing retirement fund loans

To help its employees through financial hardships, San Mateo County soon may allow them to borrow from their deferred compensation accounts.

Friday May 9

Defendant ID'd as shooter in fatal shooting

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 ...

Friday May 9

Supervisor calls for investigation of Emmanuel hospital

Continued labor disputes at Emmanuel Convalescent Hospital of Millbrae have prompted San Mateo County Supervisor Mark Church to call for an investigation.

Friday May 9

Police seek suspect in robbery

San Mateo police are circulating a photo of a man who robbed a bank at Hillsdale Shopping Center shortly after noon Thursday.

Friday May 9

Murder suspect says he panicked

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 ...

Friday May 9

Perseverance pays off

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 ...

Friday May 9

City to hold workshops on digital TV conversion

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.

Friday May 9

Revelers celebrate Israeli independence

Sarah Wienner was just 8 years old when the state of Israel was born. She watched people dance in the streets of Tel Aviv after Israeli troops trounced the Arab Liberation Army in the 1948 War of Independence.

Friday May 9

Serra takes WCAL title

Welcome to the wacky world of WCAL baseball. Back-to-back infield singles with two outs induced throwing errors to hand Serra-San Mateo a 9-8 extra-innings victory in the championship game of the West Catholic ...

Friday May 9

Performing with heart, soul & spine

In the two years before her operation, the teenage Chinese singer Jiahuan Zhang could no longer perform.

Thursday May 8

Drawing up plans

When Burlingame's city council and planning commission meet next month to talk about redeveloping the Safeway site on Howard Avenue, they will be presented with what an advisory group considers the best one or ...

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