Palo Alto News

Officials at East Palo Alto Academy: High School said Friday they are disputing figures in a state report that show the dropout rate at 37.5 percent over the past four years.

Police are trying to locate witnesses Saturday who may have seen a fatal shooting in East Palo Alto on Friday night.

Visitors to "The Big Green Bus" including 3-year-old Emma Popham, left, look inside the bus in Palo Alto on Thursday, July 17, 2008.

Palo Alto Online News One man received third-degree burns on his arms and 15 percent of his body this afternoon during a blaze near the A-1 Towing Company on Bay Road in East Palo Alto, according to the Menlo ...

A 50-year-old man who says he was attacked by a mountain lion in a Palo Alto park Saturday will not face charges even though authorities found no proof of an attack, police said Friday.

A man who claimed he was attacked by a mountain lion in Palo Alto's Foothills Park won't face charges, authorities said Thursday.

Members of the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board agreed Thursday morning that just about anything would improve Lytton Plaza.

Extreme fire danger sparked the summer's second red-flag warning last Wednesday, closing the Dish area and surrounding foothills for the day.

A new satellite for Dish Network Corp. was successfully launched from an seagoing rocket pad positioned in the equatorial Pacific, Sea Launch Co.

The man whose reported weekend mountain-lion attack in Palo Alto's Foothills Park was found "unsubstantiated" by state officials may have to pay for the subsequent two-day investigation, Palo Alto police Agent ...

A $10,000 reward has been offered by Palo Alto for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a 22-year-old suspect in the robbery and murder last Sunday in downtown Palo Alto.

The city's animal shelter is more crowded than usual, and some employees are worried the number of homeless and abandoned pets will increase as the economy continues to slump.

Mountain View police arrested a teenager who allegedly attempted to beat a man with a baseball bat in a Wal-Mart parking lot Sunday, police said.

Searching for some shred of evidence to a brazen early Sunday-morning shooting outside Palo Alto police headquarters, police teams in orange vests scanned the shrubbery at the Civic Center with metal detectors ...

Police and a trapper are on the lookout for a mountain lion that pounced on a lone hiker in Palo Alto's Foothills Park on Saturday.

Palo Alto Online News Robert Wallace, 58, of La Honda died Sunday after a tractor he was driving near Alpine Road south of Portola Valley overturned and crushed him, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A man in his 50s who was attacked by a mountain lion at a Palo Alto park over the weekend "narrowly" escaped being bitten when the cat missed its target and tumbled down a hill, police said Sunday.

A man is fighting for his life after being shot early Sunday morning during an apparent robbery outside Palo Alto City Hall, police reported.

Note: The following review is scheduled for publication in the print edition of the Mercury News Sunday A+E section on July 20.

Palo Alto police surrounded a home Friday night and forced an allegedly armed man to surrender.