The DA's Office says the burglars are dressing up as utility workers and saying they need to enter homes for various reasons.
UPDATED: Police say the 79-year-old is in town from China, visiting family, has been located.
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Police said the robber dressed as a construction worker.
The suspicious substance was received in the mail, police said.
A Richmond man is suspected of the March 28 rape in Palo Alto. He may also be responsible for a sexual assault in Oakland, police say.
The train hit the person around 10:17 a.m.
Students and staff were evacuated from at least one academic building Monday morning.
The suspect used a student's name when he called 911 making the threat.
Paly High was placed on lockdown Thursday when a phone call threatening violence at the campus was received at the Palo Alto Police Dept.
Police searched a greenbelt area for a man suspected of pulling a teen-aged jogger off of a path, putting a gun to her head and raping her.
The Palo Alto-based company says it has "proactively reached out to authorities to offer their assistance" in the fatal Mountain View crash.
Police stopped a car for multiple violations at Maclane and Second streets.
The suspect came up behind him, demanding his wallet, police said.
The vandals shot at charter buses that take workers to technology companies such as Apple Inc. and Google.
The woman fatally injured Thursday on Oregon Expressway was the passenger in a car driven by her husband, according to Palo Alto police.
Eastbound Oregon Expressway was shut down for several hours Thursday morning as Palo Alto police investigated the deadly collision.
Police advised just after 5 p.m. Tuesday of the collision with injuries.
The collision happened Monday night on the southbound tracks near Charleston Road and Alma Street.
Two lanes of southbound El Camino Real are closed in the area, officials said.
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The 60-year-old had retired from a Peninsula high school when his sexual relationship began with the victim, 16.
Evening spree of assault, battery, robbery and threats occurred at Stanford Shopping Center, police station and a hospital, officials said.
Mountain View and Stanford law enforcement joined the hunt for the felon wanted from Los Gatos after he slipped over a fence.
The three-vehicle, morning collision was near Whipple Avenue in the Redwood City area, CHP said.
The fire happened at the Lafayette Americana condo complex at 1031 Clyde Avenue.
Three women and a Palo Alto man were arrested in the human trafficking operation, police say.
University and Hamilton avenues were closed as the Palo Alto Fire Department responded to the blaze on Bryant Street.
Palo Alto police are seeking a group of suspects in a brazen theft this week at Nordstrom in the Stanford Shopping Center.
He was 45 years old. (Breaking)
Multiple lanes were blocked overnight for road repairs. (BREAKING)
BREAKING: Page Mill Road remained partially closed following the crash just outside Palo Alto city limits.
Man Crates, Facebook and Oracle are among those hiring as of Dec. 27, 2017. (breaking)
Northbound lanes were blocked near Embarcadero Road.
Now facing a possible five years in jail, the Los Gatos woman nearly bankrupted her landscaping employer with her "greed," prosecutor said.
BREAKING: Police said the 59-year-old woman was last seen leaving a Palo Alto thrift shop late Tuesday morning.
The Palo Alto resident was exiting U.S. Highway 101 when the fatal crash occurred, according to San Francisco police. (Breaking)
John Bivins, 47, was captured by U.S. Marshals.
Police say four men were arrested when they showed up outside the Palo Alto man's home. (Breaking)
BREAKING: Tramel McClough was captured Tuesday in Stockton; John Bivins remained at large Wednesday.