Professor charged with felony child abduction
Annelise Barron, an associate professor at Stanford University, has been charged with felony child abduction after she left for the island of Kauai in December with her three children, allegedly without informing the children's fathers. (Wednesday, 9:55 AM)

Palo Alto tries to make 'hackathons' a family affair
Hackers, designers and Silicon Valley technophiles will flood downtown Palo Alto's most prominent gathering spot with food, music, TED-style talks and gizmos galore on June 1 as part of the city's -- and the nation's -- inaugural festival to celebrate "civic hacking." (Wednesday, 9:07 AM)

School for dyslexic children to hold information night
A Palo Alto-based independent school for children with dyslexia will hold an information night for prospective families Wednesday, May 29. (Wednesday, 9:44 AM)

Suicide or murder? Attorneys duel in closing arguments
Did Parima Parineh commit suicide in her Woodside home on April 13, 2010, or was she shot and killed by her husband, Pooroushasb "Peter" Parineh, who is charged with premeditated murder for financial gain? A prosecutor and a defense attorney who argued the case over some 15 days gave their closing arguments to the jury in a San Mateo County Superior Court on Friday. (Wednesday, 9:35 AM)

Palo Alto hits the brakes on new housing vision
Palo Alto's official housing vision, already years overdue, will undergo further revisions after residents around Maybell Avenue protested the inclusion of a controversial -- and yet unapproved -- senior-housing development in the document. (Monday, 10:03 PM)

Hearing officer hired for Buena Vista's proposed closure
With the future of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park up in the air, Palo Alto has selected a hearing officer to evaluate a recent report on the impact of relocating the park's residents.
(Tuesday, 9:54 AM)

Four injured, one dead in East Palo Alto shootings
Police in East Palo Alto are investigating a shooting that killed one teen and injured two others Sunday night. Two people were injured in earlier shootings. (Monday, 9:35 AM)

East Palo Alto police chief declares 'crime emergency'
A series of gun-related crimes over the weekend that culminated with the the death of 16-year-old boy has prompted East Palo Alto police chief Ron Davis to declare a "crime emergency." (Monday, 3:08 PM)

Grandmother who was shot speaks out
Five people were shot at a bus stop in East Palo Alto May 5. Victims "Susana" and "Ashley," a grandmother and granddaughter, instantly became statistics in East Palo Alto's long history of casualties of gun and gang violence. (Monday, 9:34 AM)

Stanford rewards walk-bike commuters with cash
Stanford University faculty and staff who walk or bike to work will now not only feel good about helping the environment, but they'll receive cold, hard cash for doing so. (Monday, 12:45 PM)

Apartments could replace some Buena Vista mobile homes
A proposal to build about 65 low-income apartments for displaced families at Buena Vista Mobile Home Park is being considered by the property's developer and the Palo Alto Housing Corporation. (Sunday, 11:21 AM)

Former student, now pop star in Japan, recounts story
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. Today at 28, Hart lives in Tokyo and makes his living singing soulfully -- in Japanese -- across Japan. (Sunday, 11:19 AM)

Editorial: A backwards process on Maybell project
Imagine making a substantial family investment in something before determining its value, how other family members felt about it and deciding if it was the best way to meet your family goals? (Friday, 8:44 AM)

Shoptalk: Fleming's Steakhouse expanding
Big plans are on the horizon for Fleming's Steakhouse at Stanford Shopping Center. (Wednesday, 9:07 AM)

Stanford: Earth's core is surprisingly weak
Stanford University researcher Arianna Gleason and assistant professor Wendy Mao discovered that the Earth's inner core is much weaker than had been previously thought. (Monday, 9:34 AM)

Stanford completes baseball sweep over California
The Stanford baseball team took care of some much-needed business over the weekend, completing a Pac-12 sweep of host California to get itself back over the .500 mark in conference play. Read more at PASportsOnline (Monday, 12:09 PM)

Civil-rights officials present harassment guidelines
More than 100 people showed up Thursday night to a parent-education event in which representatives from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights described how and when the office approaches issues of discriminatory harassment in schools. (Friday, 9:38 AM)

• Residents irked by change in Palo Alto's 'housing vision' (Thursday, 12:16 AM)
• Palo Alto to bring back traffic-enforcement team (Friday, 12:34 AM)
• School of Rock kids play classics in the iTunes age (Friday, 8:48 AM)
• PUBLIC AGENDA: Labor negotiations, Maybell zone change, management compensation (Friday, 11:17 AM)
• VIDEO/MULTIMEDIA (Monday, February 4, 2013, 4:58 PM)

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