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THE SUSPECT — These images released by the FBI show the masked suspect believed to be responsible for the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
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TRAIN VS. CAR: A Caltrain struck a car at the E. Charleston crossing yesterday around 6 p.m. No one was injured, according to authories. CANADIAN SHOOTING: Canadian police say eight people including the suspect are dead after a shooting at a small school in British Columbia, with two more people found dead at a home believed to be connected to the incident. Police say more than 25 people are injured. AMERICAN GLOOM: Americans’ [See THE UPDATE, page 4] 910 Cambridge Ave
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tion for more than a week. The person wearing a backpack and a ski mask can be seen in one of the videos tilting their head down and away from a doorbell camera while nearing an archway at the home of the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie. The footage shows the person holding a flashlight in their mouth and trying to cover the camera with a gloved hand and part of a plant ripped from Nancy Guthrie's yard. The videos — less than a combined minute in length — gave investigators and the public their first glimpse of who was outside Nancy Guthrie’s home just outside Tucson, but the images did not show what happened to her or help determine whether the 84-year-old is still alive. FBI Director Kash Patel said [See GUTHRIE, page 18]
No prison for running over ex BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
A woman who allegedly ran over her ex-boyfriend with her car in Mountain View has avoided a four-year prison sentence, court records show.
On Feb. 2 Alexis McBride, 26, of Dublin, was sentenced to four months in jail, along with three years of probation upon release and 40 hours of volunteer work, according to court records. McBride has credit for serv-
ing 141 days in jail. McBride allegedly tailgated her ex-boyfriend, a 24-year-old East Palo Alto man, as he was leaving work on El Camino Real in Menlo Park on Jan. 2, 2024. The [See EX, page 18]
Residents want rail crossing closed In a letter to council, Nick Mehta, father, of Summer Mehta, who died Palo Alto community members are on the tracks last week, said he supurging City Council to close the inter- ports closing the intersection, believing section where Churchill Avenue inter- Churchill provided an “easy means for sects with the railroad after the latest her to impulsively act at a low moment.” LOBSTER The letter was read by a friend of death on STIMULUS the tracks. BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
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Nick Mehta’s during Monday night’s council meeting. The Caltrain crossing at Churchill Avenue and Alma Street is adjacent to Palo Alto High School, and has been the site of multiple student suicides [See RAIL, page 18]
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A person has been detained for questioning in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, according to two people familiar with the matter. The people said the person was detained in an area south of Tucson yesterday. They did not immediately provide additional details, and it wasn’t clear if the person being questioned is the person captured on surveillance video from outside Guthrie’s house released earlier in the day. The people were not authorized to discuss details of an ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The FBI released surveillance images of a masked person with a handgun holster outside Guthrie's front door the night she vanished, offering the first major break in a case that has gripped the na-
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