East Palo Alto News

Police in Fremont have arrested a carjacking suspect wanted from an incident reported last month.

Delores Cunningham heard the shots Thursday night, but like other residents of Hunter Street in East Palo Alto, she thought it was someone setting off fireworks.

Lawyers representing the East Palo Alto Police Department's landlord have deposed the city manager, public works director and other officials over the past two weeks as part of a lawsuit against the city for almost $166,000 in extra construction and engineering costs.

Thirty-two San Mateo County nonprofit organizations will share $1 million in "safety net" grants from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the county, the Foundation announced today.

East Palo Alto will commemorate its 26th birthday and the country's Independence Day with a parade and community celebration on July 4. The festivities will begin 9 a.m. at Cesar Chavez Elementary School with parade-goers leaving the school around 10 a.m. for a march to Martin Luther King Park, Mayor Ruben Abrica said.

A boyfriend and girlfriend charged in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man on Christmas Day in 2007 have pleaded not guilty in San Mateo County Superior Court, a deputy district attorney said Monday.

San Mateo County Sheriff's deputies were looking for two male juveniles suspected of attempted homicide.

Federal stimulus funds and layoffs of support staff helped Ravenswood City School District, which has schools in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto, pass a 2009-2010 operating budget Thursday night that is 9 percent below last year's. "This has been a very difficult and challenging year in terms of constant reductions in our budget," Superintendent ...

Bulldozers were poised Wednesday to begin clearing a vacant lot that has been a homeless encampment of tents, lean-tos and hand-dug caves for nearly seven years.

More than a dozen homeless people have been evicted from a makeshift encampment they had set up on a privately owned lot in East Palo Alto.

Palo Alto police on Wednesday tracked down a computer stolen from a Walter Hays Elementary School classroom earlier this month and arrested a young East Palo Alto man on suspicion of possessing stolen property.

An East Palo Alto subsidized housing development that opened to much fanfare in 2006 has been plagued by problems, including urine-soaked carpeting, smashed windows and lights, and building access issues that some tenants attribute to poor management and inadequate security.

Two well-known East Palo Alto police detectives are leaving the force, but the department has hired three officers and is on track to be fully staffed for the first time in its history, police said Monday.

The East Palo Alto Police Department is purchasing 10 video cameras to install in patrol vehicles by the end of this summer.

An East Palo Alto man remained in stable condition Tuesday after his cousin stabbed him over the weekend during an alcohol- and drug-fueled fight, police said.

Click on picture to enlarge image and view caption. Seventeen seniors from local high schools received $67,000 in scholarships from the Rotary Club of Menlo Park last week in ceremonies at the club's regular meeting.

Authorities are searching for at least two men who were involved in a carjacking in East Palo Alto, which led to a high-speed pursuit that ended with the suspects fleeing on foot near a movie theater in Union City early this morning, a Menlo Park police sergeant said.

At rest, Fatima Alcantar's face sits soft and feminine, with a delicately pointed chin that lends a feline cast to her looks.

Seven persons, aged 42 to 66, were arrested in a "Buyer Beware" drug sting operation in East Palo Alto Tuesday, Police Chief Ron Davis announced today.

Undercover officers took to the streets of East Palo Alto today in an effort to arrest alleged buyers of crack cocaine.