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Ice cream eaten in break-in BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
A homeless man allegedly broke into former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s pool house in Palo Alto, ate four jars of her homemade ice cream and damaged a $30,000 countertop, court records show. Corey Alexander Stevens, 32, allegedly broke into the pool house on the 500 block of Addison Avenue on March 7.
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Mayer’s assistant told Mayer there each. Mayer said her expensive stone was someone inside the pool house countertop, made of onyx baccarat, around 10 a.m. on March 9, according was chipped and cracked, the police to Officer Eric Dun’s police report. report said. Mayer told Dun that she found three Mayer’s rug was stained, and dirt empty jars of ice cream, in the sink and was left on her couch, she told Dun. another empty jar on the coffee table. Mayer estimated that she would She said the jars were worth about $15 spend $2,500 to repair the rug, replace
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GAS FIELD HIT: President Trump yesterday pledged Israel would not attack Iran’s major South Pars gas field again. But, if Iran attacks Qatar again, the U.S. would retaliate and “massively blow up the entirety” of the field. OIL SANCTIONS EASED: The Treasury Department is easing sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company. It's one way the Trump administration is trying to ease oil prices that have soared during the Iran war. FIREY HEARING: Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, faced pushback yesterday during a committee meeting chaired by Republican Rand Paul, who said Mullin is a liar with anger management problems and lacks the temperament to lead DHS. Mullin was grilled about his personal character and expertise for the DHS job. FED RATE UNCHANGED: The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged yesterday and Chair Jerome Powell highlighted the increasingly uncertain outlook for [See THE UPDATE, page 23] 253 PRINCETON RD MENLO PARK CONTACT FOR INFORMATION
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the couch upholstery and clean the pool house, according to the police report. Mayer told Dun that she had a locksmith fitting new locks on the pool house to match her main house, but the new locks hadn’t been installed. Officer Lance Nguyen searched the backyard and found Stevens sitting on a couch inside the pool house, the police report said. Stevens said he was on [See ICE CREAM, page 22]
CESAR CHAVEZ talks to striking Salinas Valley farmworkers during a large rally in Salinas on March 7, 1979. Chavez died in 1993. AP photo by Paul Sakuma.
Many upcoming celebrations and holidays honoring late farmworker labor leader Cesar Chavez are being renamed, postponed or canceled in the wake of allegations that he sexually abused women and girls while at the helm of the United Farm Workers Union. Some cities and school districts are also evaluating whether to rename schools, parks and buildings named after Chavez, including in East Palo Alto. Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed yesterday she was among those who say they were abused by Chavez, who died more than three decades ago. The allegations have prompted swift fallout, including from the United Farm Workers, which announced it would not take part in any events named after the organization’s former leader. Among those calling for a change is East [See CHAVEZ, page 22]
Advanced math class won’t be forced Board members Shounak Dharap, Shana Segal and Josh Salcman were On a 3-2 vote, the Palo Alto school worried that overruling educators at board has declined to tell high schools each high school would set a bad precto offer Multivariable Calculus — an edent and go against a policy that aladvanced math class that was reject- lows them to decide whether to offer a ed by principals and teachers but that course. “Directing that a specific course be students and parents have been fighting offered at a specific school moves us, for. BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
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