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These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news or click on “News” in the left, green column.
Palo Alto looks for speedier union negotiations Palo Alto officials made a push this week to speed up the city’s process for labor negotiations when a City Council committee endorsed a new policy that calls for new union contracts to be approved before existing ones expire. (Posted March 14 at 4:10 p.m.)
Bay Area gas prices skyrocket in past month Average gas prices in the Bay Area have skyrocketed in the past month, jumping by 51 cents to $4.41 on average per gallon, according to a report released this week by AAA. (Posted March 14 at 1:55 p.m.)
VIDEO: Girl Scouts celebrate 100th anniversary Monday evening, March 12, hundreds of Palo Alto Girl Scouts strolled from the Lou Henry Hoover Program Center at Rinconada Park to City Hall, where Mayor Yiaway Yeh read a proclamation, and the girls and women shined lights at 7:12 p.m. in recognition of the Girl Scouts of America 100th anniversary. (Posted March 13 at 4:35 p.m.)
Former Citigroup employee gets prison sentence A former Citigroup Inc. sales assistant who stole $800,000 from the financial firm’s clients in Palo Alto has been sentenced in federal court in San Francisco to one year and 10 months in prison. (Posted
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$20K taken in Mountain View home burglary A safe containing an assortment of jewelry and more than $20,000 in cash was taken from a house in the 1600 block of Villa Street in Mountain View Monday, March 12, police said. (Posted March 13 at 3:14 p.m.)
Palo Alto to shift dispatch center to mobile unit Palo Alto’s dispatch center will be moved from the City Hall basement to the city’s state-of-the-art Mobile Emergency Operations Center later this week to accommodate seismic retrofit work — a move that will force the city to temporarily close a downtown block to traffic.
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Palo Alto firefighters douse rooftop blaze A fire that officials say began on the roof caused nearly $30,000 in damages to a home on Georgia Avenue in Palo Alto Saturday afternoon, March 10. No one was injured. (Posted March 12 at 9:22 a.m.)
First Person: A conversation with Linda Williams Palo Alto resident Linda Williams, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (PPMM), speaks with Lisa Van Dusen about the challenges of leading the nation’s largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in this “First Person” video. (Posted March 11 at 10:30 a.m.)
Two caregivers sentenced for elder fraud Two East Palo Alto women were sentenced Thursday, March 8, to 11 months in jail and 5 years probation for defrauding an 82-year-old woman, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday, March 9. (Posted March 9 at 3:27 p.m.) Want to get news briefs emailed to you every weekday? Sign up for Express, our new daily e-edition. Go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com to sign up. George Fisher, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Oncology Director, Cancer Clinical Trials
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