Los Altos News

One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers.

By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 25 -- Solexel, Milpitas, Calif., has been assigned a patent developed by eight co-inventors for a "method of creating reusable template for detachable thin film substrate." The co-inventors are Suketu Parikh, San Jose, Calif., David Dutton, San Jose, Calif., Pawan Kapur, Palo Alto, Calif., Somnath Nag, ... (more)

From elementary school to high school, she has been able to count on a teacher, administrator or someone else to help her son Jonathan Mahmoud with his insulin shots when no school nurse was available -- the norm in California's budget-battered education system, where there's only one nurse for every 2,200 students.

The trial of a 52-year-old Los Altos woman accused of stabbing her estranged husband while wearing bubble wrap abruptly halted this week after her attorney announced she would enter a new plea -- not guilty by reason of insanity.

A canvas-covered cart, loaded with bright yellow buckets filled with breakfast goodies, is rolled out to the playground during morning recess at four of the district's elementary schools, said Robin Gallagher, director of child nutrition.

These teens are in school before many classmates even wake up. They've already studied before the first high school bell rings.

If Mountain View had a resident ribs master, it would be Harold Willis. And you won't find him -- or his ribs -- in a local restaurant, but in the parking lot of Lozano's Car Wash on El Camino Real.

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Redlands High School senior Austin Niebres said he was overwhelmed "" shocked, even "" when he heard his name called as the winner of a Maestro Award at the recent National Heritage Choral Festival at Foothill College in Los Altos.

Jay Thorwaldson's Blog , posted by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus, 1 hour ago Jay Thorwaldson is a member of Palo Alto Online In about eight years, the Palo Alto Adult School will be observing its 100th anniversary -- a century of promoting the notion that learning can be for a lifetime.

CloudVolumes was amongst 50 winners honored on Saturday, May 18 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

As a man who loves tinned spaghetti hoops, drives a six-year-old car, and holds meetings over a burger at McDonald's, it is fair to say that Aaron Levie is not your average multimillionaire.

The first in a series of such actions nationwide, advocates for immigrant rights in Mountain View made their point this month by going without food and speaking to church congregations up and down the Peninsula.

More than seven million people struggle with infertility in this country. Treatments are now widely available, but they can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Everyone seems to agree that marching up and down a football field while banging on drums or playing the horn is hard work.

Tempers were tested at a recent meeting of the local high school district's board of trustees, as one of the governing body's elder statesmen gave a passionate, playful and at times sardonic speech, suggesting calls for stricter enforcement of dress code policy was contributing to "rape culture." The speech drew a sharp rebuff from the three ... (more)

As Palo Alto nears the finish line in adopting a long overdue housing vision, residents in one neighborhood are rising up to protest a late revision in the document that would accommodate a controversial senior-housing development on Maybell Avenue.

The weekend started with a bang. Literally. You know how, at the end of a long week, a beer or two might be in order? Los Altos Police were called at 8:59 p.m. Friday to assist when a person who appeared to have been drinking, Agent Neal Rangles said Monday.

More construction will soon come to the San Antonio Shopping area of Mountain View.

Springtime has arrived and pollen is in the air. Thanks to the effects of climate change , experts say the pollen count this season will be higher than ever before .