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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-
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
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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’
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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
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BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
Palo Alto community members are urging City Council to close the intersection where Churchill Avenue intersects with the railroad after the latest death on the tracks.
In a letter to council, Nick Mehta, father, of Summer Mehta, who died on the tracks last week, said he supports closing the intersection, believing Churchill provided an “easy means for her to impulsively act at a low moment.”
The letter was read by a friend of
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
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San Carlos’ City Council is worried that a dedicated bus lane that SamTrans is proposing along El Camino Real won’t be used.
Council gave feedback on Monday on the Grand Boulevard Initiative, a $750 million plan affecting 13 cities in San Mateo County that have stretches of El Camino Real. The SamTrans-led plan floated three options to council —
• A dedicated bus lane with a separated bike lane, leaving two lanes in each direction for cars and removing parking.
• Wider sidewalks, while keeping parking and three lanes in each direction.
• A continuous separated bike lane instead of making the sidewalks wider, and keep parking.
Would it get used?
Mayor Pranita Venkatesh said in other cities she has seen cars using bus lanes because they aren’t being used.
Buses can cause traffic when they make stops or don’t catch a green light on time, according to Cassie Halls, manager of major corridors at SamTrans. With a bus lane, cars wouldn’t get stuck behind a bus, improving the flow of traffic, Halls said. There are six bus stops in San Carlos, and if bus lanes are approved, it could be a great tool for emergency vehicles to get through traffic, according to Halls.
Halls said a small change has already been made along El Camino to make green lights longer for buses.
Could mess things up
Vice Mayor Adam Rak said he feels
traffic could get messed up by removing a lane to make one dedicated to buses. In San Carlos, traffic flows along El Camino well and he feels spoiled, Rak said. Rak said while parking is important right now, it’s important to think about the future, when reliance on Waymos may eliminate need for parking along El Camino. Councilwoman Sara McDowell agreed, saying modes of transportation are changing, and disagreed with the bus having its own lane.
Bike lane preference
McDowell said she preferred having a continuous separated bike lane because it increases safety for both pedestrians and bicyclists.
She has heard that many residents have issues crossing at the intersection of Cherry Street and El Camino. Mc-
Dowell asked for every crosswalk to have a flashing beacon.
“Anytime there’s a crosswalk across El Camino, there should be a button that you push with lights. We really need El Camino to be friendly to the way our communities are changing, which is going to be a lot of very, very dense housing,” McDowell said.
Councilman Neil Layton said he preferrs wider sidewalks because of concerns about how traffic would adjust from three lanes to two. He asked Halls to look into side streets that could be affected.
Council will revisit the plan between August and September, according to Halls. Other cities in the area are also hearing SamTrans’ presentation, with Belmont scheduled to discuss the topic last night.
hope for their future has fallen to a new low, according to new polling. In 2025, only about 59% of Americans gave high ratings when asked to evaluate how good their life will be in about five years, the lowest annual measure since Gallup began asking this question almost 20 years ago.
ICE MAY LEAVE MINN: Gov. Tim Walz says the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota could end soon. He spoke with top Trump administration officials, including border czar Tom Homan and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
DON’T JUMP: Olympians jumping in excitement while wearing their freshly earned medals are finding that when they jump in jubilation, the ribbon securing the medal around their necks will break, sending the prize clattering to the ground, sometimes damaging the medals.
ROAN DUMPS AGENCY: Chappell Roan has left the talent agency Wasserman. It is led by entertainment industry executive and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics chair Casey Wasserman. His name appears in files recently released on Jeffrey Epstein.
STEPH GETS REPLACED: Toronto Raptors forward Brandon Ingram will replace injured Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry in the NBA AllStar Game on Sunday. Curry was voted a starter but is out with knee pain.
LUTNICK AND EPSTEIN: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has acknowledged that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein twice after the late financier’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child.
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A 19-year-old from Redwood City had his license revoked for life by a judge yesterday after he hit several pedestrians with his car while chasing another driver who had hit his car and did not stop, a prosecutor said.
Brian Barabatajimaroa pleaded no contest to pursuing a driver and hitting pedestrians, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. Barabatajimaroa was sentenced to a year in jail, however, he was released because he had served the time with good behavior during the case, the DA said.
Barabatajimaroa called Redwood City police dispatchers on March 1 at
10 p.m. and said he was in pursuit of a driver who had just hit his car but didn’t stop.
Despite being told several times to stop the pursuit, Barbatajimaroa continued while reaching high speeds and ignoring traffic laws, Wagstaffe said.
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The hit-and-run suspect had pulled over near a group of pedestrians in the 900 block of King Street when Barbatajimaroa struck the group with his own vehicle, Wagstaffe said.
Barbatajimaroa hit an 18-year-old and a 65-year-old who were taken to the hospital with serious injuries, Wagstaffe said.
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
A Redwood City councilwoman wants a $1 million contract with a homelessness nonprofit to be more transparent on efforts to get homeless people off the streets.
Redwood City Council voted 5-1 Monday night to approve a $1 million contract with LifeMoves to continue providing services to homeless people.
Councilwoman Marcella Padilla abstained from voting, and Mayor Elmer Martinez Saballos was absent.
“This is a large amount of money that isn’t going to last, and these are things that need to be clear,” Padilla said. “We
need to have tighter language to make sure that we guarantee the transparency and the accountability that we owe that taxpayers.”
The contract had vague language on how often it would visit homeless people and the kind of support they would receive, according to Padilla.
City Manager Patrick Heisinger said it was agreed that LifeMoves employees would make visits Monday through Friday.
Padilla said it was important that the contract was accurate. Council members Isabella Chu and Chris Sturken said they shared the same concerns. Chu said there is always room for improvement.
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BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
Palo Alto City Council is optimistic that residents will support a tax to update the dilapidated Cubberley Community Center, despite recent polling data showing otherwise.
During Monday’s meeting, the council unanimously signed off on an agreement with TheaterWorks to build a two-theatre, 40,000-square-foot performing arts center at Cubberley’s 400 Middlefield Road location. The agreement is part of the city’s wider plans to renovate Cubberley into a thriving community space, complete with a theatre, gym and other amenities.
But results from a poll that ran from Jan. 5 to 12 show only 48% of voters support either a parcel tax or general sales tax to fund such updates. A parcel tax needs two-thirds of the vote to pass, while a general sales tax needs a simple majority.
Explaining the numbers
Council members on Monday offered explanations about why the poll results were low. Councilman Ed Lauing said the survey came right after the holiday season, and residents were occupied with getting back into a routine.
Meanwhile Julie Lythcott-Haims said that was the week ICE shot Minneapolis resident Renee Good, and the event could have negatively affected people’s mood.
The January poll was conducted by Fairbank, Maslin, Metz & Associates (FM3), a market research firm. In a November 2025 poll, 55% of respondents said they saw at least “some need” for additional funding to improve Cubberley. That percentage dropped to 36% by January. Meanwhile a third of respondents said they see “no real need” to fund improvements at all.
But that didn’t stop the council from believing the votes could be swayed. TheatreWorks has offered to help fund-
raise for the new performing arts center, which will help cover some of the costs to renovate Cubberley, Councilman Pat Burt said.
Friends of the Recreation Wellness Center, a nonprofit that is working with the city to potentially build a new gym or wellness center in the new Cubberley, has offered to raise donations on its own for its project.
If those partnerships were presented more prominently in the next round of polling, which will take place in the spring, more people could vote in favor of it, said Vice Mayor Greer Stone.
The council has also made Cubberley a priority this year, which can show voters that the city is serious about following through with the project, said Councilman Keith Reckdahl. A new sales tax for Cubberley only needs a simple majority vote, and the poll is already at 48%, he said.
“To me the glass is half full, we just have to get it 51% full,” Reckdahl said. “I don’t think this is not viable, we just have some work to do.”
For years city discussions about Cubberley revolved around fixing its aging infrastructure to meet earthquake fire and safety requirements, and replacing some of the rundown buildings.
But then the council floated ideas about ambitious amenities that could be built there instead, which would cost taxpayers around $392 million.
The city wants to put on the November ballot a measure that would allow the city to purchase 7 acres of land from the Palo Alto Unified School District for $65.5 million, which will be used to expand the city’s ownership of Cubberley. Any leftover money could be used to fund safety upgrades or renovations.
The ballot could come in the form of a bond measure, which requires a twothirds majority for passage, or a sales tax measure.
Palo Alto police have arrested a man for stealing three stereo headphones worth more than $600 from a T-Mobile store, according to authorities.
The incident happened around 12:08 p.m. on Friday, when Jordan Cusulos Waugh, 36, of Oakland, entered the T-Mobile store at 165 University Ave. and took three pairs of stereo headphones without paying, according to Lt. Craig Lee.
Waugh exited the store and fled to
the University Avenue train station. A store employee followed him and demanded Waugh give the merchandise back, but Waugh shoved the employee and attempted to board a bus to escape, Lee said.
Police were on patrol in the area and quickly contacted Waugh, Lee said.
Waugh was arrested without further incident and booked into Santa Clara County jail on robbery and resisting arrest charges.
A San Jose man has pleaded guilty to federal charges of setting fire to a U.S. post office, prosecutors said.
Richard Tillman, 44, set fire to the Almaden Valley U.S. Post Office on Crown Boulevard in San Jose last July. Tillman was initially charged in July 2025 and was indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2025 on one count of malicious destruction of government property.
‘Make a point’
Tillman admitted that he intentionally set the fire in order to “make a point to the United States government,” the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday.
Tillman drove to the post office with firelogs in his car, backed it through the building’s front door, got out and spread lighter fluid throughout the vehicle, then threw a lit match on it. The blaze ignited and he exited the post office. Tillman then began spray painting the words “Viva La Me” on the outside of the building, but did not finish the graffiti because the heat from the fire was too intense. He told police that he livestreamed the event on YouTube.
The fire completely destroying the lobby, making it unusable to the public ever since, according to prosecutors.
A sentence hearing for Tillman is scheduled for April 27 and he is facing between five and 20 years in prison.
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
A group of Belmont residents is suing the city over approving plans to redevelop the neighborhood’s shopping center with a housing complex with no replacement retail.
The strip mall at 580 Masonic Way will be demolished to make way for a five-story complex with 140 apartments. Businesses that residents of the nearby Belmont Village neighborhood frequent, such as the two restaurants, a dry cleaners, a chiropractor, a dentist, a salon and a daycare, will be forced to close or relocate. Developer Prometheus Real Estate Group is proposing residents-only amenities on the ground floor.
The lack of replacement retail has led a group of neighbors and business owners, the Belmont Village Community Association, to sue the city and Prometheus. Belmont Assistant City Manager Kathy Kleinbaum declined to comment, and Prometheus did not return a request for comment.
Approval questioned
In the lawsuit filed on Jan. 20 in San Mateo County Superior Court, the neighborhood group, led by Doug Ricket, Michael Craig and Amey Shroff, claim the city did not follow its own zoning rules when approving the apartment complex. The lawsuit, filed by
attorney Mark Wolfe, states the group supports the housing aspect of the project, but wants some of the retail to return.
The neighborhood association previously appealed the planning commission’s approval of the project. On Oct. 28, council upheld the approval.
At the Oct. 28 meeting, Prometheus senior director Jonathan Stone said the plans would comply with the city’s Housing Element, a state-required housing plan. Because the project now provides some affordable housing, it gives developers the right to ignore local rules, according to City Attorney Scott Rennie.
Ricket said during the Oct. 28 meeting that the city was not following its plan for the city, the Belmont Village Specific Plan approved in 2017, which called for retail. But Rennie said that at the beginning of last year, the requirement was removed from certain projects.
“The heart of this is we want active use,” Ricket said at the meeting. The current businesses are accessible and within walking distance, he said.
The gym and lobby of the project will not be accessible to the public, and only future residents, Ricket said.
“I’m not here to block housing.
I look forward to Prometheus running a beautiful new place in the neighborhood,” Ricket said in the meeting.
The problem is that the developer is ignoring the zoning requirement, and the city’s plans for the ground floor are retail, he said.
Attorney for the group, Wolfe, said in the lawsuit that the developer still has to comply with the city’s zoning requirements, as it is complying with other city requirements.
Retail is still part of the city’s vision, but the discussion during the meeting shows how local vision can be upended by state mandates, Mayor Julia Mates said at the October meeting.
Though the city and community put their heart and soul into making sure the Belmont Village Specific Plan would balance housing and retail, the city is very limited in what it can do amid changing state laws, Mates said.
“Our leaders in Sacramento are making that harder and harder for us, but for this particular project, the legal reality is that it meets the state’s housing compliance requirements,” Mates said at the Oct. 28 meeting.
The next steps for the project are pending because of the lawsuit, according to Community Development Director Carlos de Melo.
U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data.
Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, or about 24,000 fewer than in 2024. The decline seems to confirm predictions by some experts, who doubted a slight increase in births in 2024 marked the start of an upward trend.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its provisional birth data late last week, filling in two months of missing data and offering the first good look at last year’s tally.
The posted numbers account for nearly all of the babies born in 2025, according to the CDC. Data is still being compiled and analyzed, but the final tally might only add “a few thousand additional births,” said Robert Anderson, who oversees birth and death tracking at the CDC.
Experts say people are marrying later and also worry about their ability to have the money, health insurance and other resources needed to raise children in a stable environment.
So far, only the number of births are available — and not birth rates and other information that can give insights into who is having babies.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology, the company announced yesterday.
The news is the latest sign of the FDA’s heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., particularly those using mRNA technology, which he has criticized before and after becoming the nation’s top health official.
Moderna received what’s called a “refusal-to-file” letter from the
FDA that objected to how it conducted a 40,000-person clinical trial comparing its new vaccine to one of the standard flu shots used today. That trial concluded the new vaccine was somewhat more effective in adults 50 and older.
The letter from FDA vaccine director Dr. Vinay Prasad said the agency doesn’t consider the application to contain an “adequate and well-controlled trial” because it didn’t compare the new shot to “the best-available standard of care
in the United States at the time of the study.” Prasad’s letter pointed to some advice FDA officials gave Moderna in 2024, under the Biden administration, which Moderna didn’t follow.
It’s rare that FDA refuses to file an application, particularly for a new vaccine, which requires companies and FDA staff to engage in months or years of discussions.
Moderna has requested an urgent meeting with FDA, and noted that it has applied for the vaccine’s approval in Europe, Canada and Australia.
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FEB. 1
7:14 a.m. — Auto burglary, 3900 block of El Camino.
FEB. 2
8:24 a.m. — Auto burglary, 400 block of High St.
8:42 p.m. — Auto burglary, 400 block of Ramona St.
FEB. 3
1:38 p.m. — Auto burglary, 4200 block of El Camino.
10:54 p.m. — Auto burglary, 4100 block of El Camino.
FEB. 4
7:50 a.m. — Grand theft, Downtown Palo Alto Caltrain Station.
8:51 a.m. — Grand theft, 2000 block of Yale St.
THURSDAY
7:55 a.m. — Michael Wu, 68, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 400 block of Bryant St.
FRIDAY
12:08 p.m. — Robbery, 100 block of University Ave. Jordan Cusulos Waugh, 36, of Oakland, arrested for robbery and resisting police.
2:20 p.m. — Scam, 800 block of Alma St.
5:22 p.m. — Burglary, 2200 block of St. Francis Drive.
SUNDAY
8:53 a.m. — Ellie Qassemzadeh, 54, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 500 block of El Camino.
9:35 a.m. — Vandalism, 100 block of Alma St.
10:46 a.m. — Auto burglary, 300 block of Sharon Park Drive.
1:21 p.m. — Grand theft, Chestnut St. and Menlo Ave.
2:01 p.m. — Burglary, 400 block of Linfield Drive.
2:52 p.m. — Dorothy Banks, 49, of Menlo Park, arrested for domestic battery, 1200 block of Hoover St.
8:13 p.m. — Vehicle collision causes injuries, Sand Hill Road and I-280.
MONDAY
2:42 a.m. — Jennifer Martinez, 22, of East Palo Alto, arrested for DUI after colliding with a signal light, Willow Road and O’Brien Drive. No injuries reported.
10:09 a.m. — License plates stolen, 700 block of Live Oak Ave.
10:27 a.m. — Bicycle stolen, 600 block of Alma St.
1:55 p.m. — Teng Jurai, 49, of
Menlo Park, arrested for being under the influence of drugs, Chilco St. and Hamilton Ave.
4:09 p.m. — Fraud, 2400 block of Sharon Oaks Drive.
4:18 p.m. — Fraud, 500 block of Laurel St.
JAN. 31
10:42 a.m. — Electric bike stolen, 300 block of Santa Teresa St. FEB. 1
5 p.m. — Off-leash dog reported, Stanford Softball Stadium.
JAN. 27
2:12 p.m. — Cory Hill, 39, of Mountain View, cited on a warrant, 2100 block of Showers Drive.
JAN. 28
1:36 a.m. — Rudy Ortega, 49, transient, cited on a warrant, 1-99 block of W. El Camino.
7:54 p.m. — Rafael Montoya, 56, of Mountain View, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, 2100 block of Old Middlefield Way.
JAN. 29
2 a.m. — Jose Rodriguez, 33, of Mountain View, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Latham St. and Rengstorff Ave.
JAN. 30
10:09 a.m. — Michael Groves, 32, of San Jose, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and on warrants, 100 block of W. El Camino.
2:26 p.m. — Guill Riefkohl Fernandez, 63, of Mountain View, cited on a warrant, 1000 block of Mercy St.
JAN. 31
12:32 a.m. — Julian Biggica, 39, of Mountain View, arrested for DUI, 1900 block of Crisanto Ave.
12:51 a.m. — James Zapata, 56, of Mountain View, arrested for domestic violence, assault with a deadly weapon and damaging or destroying a phone, 900 block of Farley St.
3:05 a.m. — Osman Oliva Meraz, 28, of Richmond, cited for DUI, Villa and View streets.
8:02 a.m. — Home burglary, 2400 block of Whitney Drive.
8:38 a.m. — Vandalism, 100 block of Lena Way.
9:43 a.m. — Grand theft, 1900 block of Montecito Ave.
5:18 p.m. — Juan Torres, 45, of Mountain View, arrested for vandalism, brandishing a weapon and violation of a protective order, 400 block of Mariposa Ave.
5:23 p.m. — Melissa Barbosa, 49, of Mountain View, cited on a warrant, 400 block of Mariposa Ave.
7:33 p.m. — Home burglary, 2300 block of Lida Drive.
10:51 p.m. — Cyrill Barredo, 36, transient, arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and probation violation at the U.S. Post Office, 211 Hope St. FEB. 1
12:48 a.m. — Hamza Ferzghi, 30, of San Jose, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Shoreline Blvd. and Terra Bella Ave.
3:22 a.m. — Assault, 700 block of W. Middlefield Road.
11 a.m. — Hugo Olver Martinez, 35, of Campbell, cited on a warrant, Evelyn and Bernardo avenues.
11:41 a.m. — Vehicle stolen, 700 block of N. Shoreline Blvd.
11:44 a.m. — Luis Menjivar Menjivar, 25, of Mountain View, arrested for public drunkenness, Morgan St. and Camp Ave.
1:58 p.m. — Theft at Target, 555 Showers Drive.
MONDAY
2:12 p.m. — Online fraud, 1000 block of El Camino.
THURSDAY
2:30 a.m. — Juan Carlos Uspirir, 23, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, Bay Road and Sweeney Ave.
10:14 a.m. — Daniel Rios Macias, 34, of Redwood City, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Second Ave. and Bay Road.
10:14 a.m. — Franklin DeJesus Cordoba, 49, of Redwood City, arrested for possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, Fifth and Waverly avenues.
2:08 p.m. — Bag containing gift cards stolen, Middlefield Road.
THURSDAY
10:09 a.m. — Caller says a homeless man with a bloody lip and broken teeth is asking for help and saying someone hit him, Arguello St.
11:02 a.m. — Woman says she was walking on a Bair Island Trail and a man exposed himself to her and started touching himself lewdly. Juan Carlos Uspirir, 23, of Redwood City, arrested for being under the influence of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia, Bair Island Wildlife Refuge.
4:28 p.m. — Woman throws a drink at a cashier, El Camino.
5:01 p.m. — Two-vehicle accident causes minor injuries, Woodside Road.
FRIDAY
2:44 a.m. — Francis Salote Hettig, 39, of Menlo Park, cited on a warrant, 3000 block of Haven Ave. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
8 a.m. — Vehicle and cyclist collide, causing minor injuries, Howland St.
9:57 a.m. — Auto burglary, Page St. Registration stolen.
9:58 a.m. — Auto burglary, Rose Ave. Backpack and purse stolen.
10:41 a.m. — Auto burglary, Rose Ave.
12:34 p.m. — Michael Joseph Duckworth, 60, of Redwood City, cited for littering, 300 block of Main St.
1:59 p.m. — Vehicle stolen, Second Ave.
9:52 p.m. — Fermin Perez Bravo, 48, of Redwood City, arrested for DUI and driving with a suspended or revoked license, Chestnut St. and Veterans Blvd.
11:23 p.m. — Maurice Cortez Hanks, 60, of East Palo Alto, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license and possession of drug paraphernalia, Woodside Road and Veterans Blvd. Peweli Ariel Pinkston, 35, of Redwood City, cited for possession of drug paraphernalia. Incident handled by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
11:54 p.m. — Caller says a gray vehicle hit two parked vehicles and drove away, leaving a bumper behind, Roosevelt Ave.
THURSDAY
7:09 p.m. — John Lawrence Orefice, 42, of Woodside, arrested for DUI, 4200 block of Jefferson Ave.
FRIDAY
3:24 p.m. — Christopher Anthony Lay, 35, of Oakland, arrested on a warrant, 500 block of El Camino. 5:06 p.m. — Window of a home shattered, 700 block of Chestnut St.
SATURDAY
10:20 a.m. — Ramon Dehesa Ybona, 60, cited for battery and on warrants, El Camino and Harbor Blvd. 11:49 a.m. — Auto burglary, Marine View Ave. Cash stolen.
8:41 p.m. — Man steals liquor from a store, El Camino.
SUNDAY
9:18 a.m. — Man reported to be asleep at the wheel of a Ford F-150 that has the engine running, 500 block of Marine View Ave. Andrew Sager Conrad, 31, arrested for DUI.
The Post prints the latest real estate transactions.
PALO ALTO
4250 El Camino Real
#C226, 94306, 1 bedroom, 727 square feet, built in 1983, Tara Badhwar to Jonathan Chow for $720,000, closed Jan. 15 (last sale: $749,000, 01-26-22)
2600 Columbia St. #101, 94304, Rosa Cao to Stanford University for $1,113,000, closed Jan. 13 (last sale: $801,500, 0723-18)
4014 Villa Vera, 94306, 3 bedrooms, 1764 square feet, built in 1977, Yu Lou to Budge Family Trust for $2,300,000, closed Jan. 16 (last sale: $2,000,000, 07-16-18)
EAST PALO ALTO
1024 Laurel Ave., 94303, 2 bedrooms, 810 square feet, built in 1946, Satya Singh to Edanet and Juan Gallegos for $806,000, closed Jan. 2
145 Cornell Road, 94025, 3 bedrooms, 2290 square feet, built in 1941, Kelso-Marlow Living Trust to Robin and Michael Cisco for $4,200,000, closed Dec. 31 (last sale: $2,111,000, 04-23-13)
ATHERTON
261 Camino Al Lago, 94027, 5 bedrooms, 6300 square feet, built in 1992, JVJ Holdings Ill LLC to Solenova Inc for $13,980,000,
closed Dec. 29 (last sale: $5,320,000, 11-11-02)
LOS ALTOS
450 1st St. #101, 94022, DD 1st Street Group LLC to Adriana Trenev for $2,199,000, closed Jan. 13
505 Cypress Point Drive #137, 94043, 1 bedroom, 662 square feet, built in 1971, Sally Fox to Susan Dunn for $550,000, closed Jan. 16 (last sale: $130,000, 08-01-91)
938 Clark Ave. #47, 94040, 2 bedrooms, 1069 square feet, built in 1978, Jocelyn and William Saiki to Joyce and Ruthann Richert for $916,000, closed Jan. 14 (last sale: $960,000, 0517-21)
1542 Canna Court, 94043, 3 bedrooms, 1533 square feet, built in 1968, Campbell Living Trust to Melissa and Bryan Anenberg for $1,650,000, closed Jan. 12
PORTOLA VALLEY
135 Meadowood Drive, 94028, 3 bedrooms, 3570 square feet, built in 1964, Pieper Family Trust to Grace and Bradley Graw for $5,850,000, closed Dec. 31
33 Tintern Lane, 94028, 3 bedrooms, 2410 square feet, built in 1954, Stanley Jungleib to Tamara and Craig Buchsbaum for $50,000, closed Dec. 29
110 Wildwood Way,
94062, 3 bedrooms, 2960 square feet, built in 1958, Tonini-Boutacoff Family Trust to Ferrari Trust for $4,150,000, closed Dec. 30 (last sale: $760,000, 07-01-92)
REDWOOD CITY
19 Acacia Lane, 94062, 2 bedrooms, 1480 square feet, built in 1956, Roloff Trust to Fitzsimons Trust for $1,450,000, closed Jan. 2 (last sale: $709,000, 0723-04)
2766 Carolina Ave., 94061, 4 bedrooms, 1210 square feet, built in 1951, Visionary Development LLC to Khoa and Ana Duong for $2,500,000, closed Dec. 29
11 Mayflower Lane
#242, 94070, 2 bedrooms, 2200 square feet, built in 1986, Artem Khlobystin to Yifei and Hyun Park for $1,840,000, closed Dec. 29 (last sale: $2,175,000, 04-20-22)
147 Leslie Drive, 94070, 5 bedrooms, 2660 square feet, built in 1977, 2Equals1 LLC to Peiying and Marvin Lin for $3,568,000, closed Dec. 31 (last sale: $2,700,000, 05-10-17)
2926 Belmont Woods Way, 94002, 3 bedrooms, 2850 square feet, built in 1982, Koda Family Trust to Ninomiya Nursery Co for $2,800,000, closed Dec. 29 (last sale: $1,080,000, 08-10-05)
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over the past few years. Schools Superintendent Don Austin sent a letter to the council last week asking to close the crossing.
“It is too late for my daughter but it is not too late for others,” Nick Mehta wrote.
School board discussion
The topic was also discussed at last night’s Palo Alto School Board meeting, with board members promising to work with council and Caltrain to close the crossing.
“When we lost Summer, we lost a light in this district. There is going to be action, there is going to be a lot of discussion about what that action is, but no amount of words, no amount of action is going to be enough,” school board president Shounak Dharap said.
“Some say closing down the crossing is not enough, if someone is determined they will find a way, but research and frankly just common sense tells us that making it harder in every scenario saves lives and any action is better than no action,” said student board member Dylan Chen.
Council’s working on it
Mayor Vicki Veenker said on Monday that the Rail Safety/Youth Mental Health ad hoc committee has been created to look into ramping up safety measures at the intersection, and the logistics of shutting it down, an action that Palo Alto Unified School District Superintendent Don Austin urged the council to do in a Thursday letter.
The committee consists of council members Julie Lythcott-Haims, Pat Burt and Greer Stone.
Lythcott-Haims said the committee has already met with Caltrain and other city transportation safety officials to explore their options, which included talks about installing more high-tech cameras that can detect unusual movements on the tracks and paying security guards to monitor the intersection. The
committee will meet again this week, Lythcott-Haims said.
Don’t want to wait
But several residents said they also want council to shut the Churchill crossing immediately, and not wait for the committee’s insights and recommendations.
A resident who identified herself as Bre. T said her daughter was Summer’s friend and is “begging” the council to close the intersection.
“Failing to close is a complacency I just can’t tolerate as a mom anymore,” she said.
Prior to the ad hoc meeting, Caltrain and Palo Alto were working on installing new technologies at Churchill crossings to improve safety, including using AI to help detect and alert officials about lingering cars and pedestrians on the tracks. Other potential updates include a partial underpass to reduce car and pedestrian traffic and grade separation, which would require temporarily closing the crossing.
chase ended at an overpass on San Antonio Road at Central Expressway in Mountain View, where McBride rear-ended the man and knocked his car into a barricade.
She bumped his car again, and the man got out, records show. McBride then accelerated at 20 to 25 mph, hitting the man’s leg and ripping off his car door.
McBride dated the man from October 2022 until August or September 2023, Deputy District Attorney William Bobseine said in a motion.
He started ignoring her
They were expecting a child together and were planning to co-parent, but the man later learned at a doctor’s appointment that McBride showed “no signs of pregnancy at all,” Bobseine said.
The man started ignoring McBride after the appointment.
Mountain View police suggested in a court filing
that the Jan. 2 act was intentional based on a comment McBride allegedly made to a friend in a recorded conversation after the chase.
“I told you I was going to do it,” McBride allegedly said. She was trying to get a ring back that her ex-boyfriend had stolen, McBride’s former defense attorney Qiana Washington said in a previous court motion.
As part of her sentence, McBride is also required to undergo any treatments and classes as determined by probation, such as a domestic violence prevention course, and take all prescribed medications.
the “armed individual” appeared to “have tampered with the camera.” It was not entirely clear whether there was a gun in the holster.
The videos were pulled from data on “back-end systems” after investigators spent days trying to find lost, corrupted or inaccessible images, Patel said.
“This will get the phone ringing for lots of potential leads,” said former FBI agent Katherine Schweit. “Even when you have a person who appears to be completely covered, they’re really not. You can see their girth, the shape of their face, potentially their eyes or mouth.”
Focusing in the neighborhood
By yesterday afternoon, authorities were back near Nancy Guthrie’s neighborhood, using vehicles to block her driveway. A few miles away, law enforcement was going door-to-door in the area where daughter Annie Guthrie lives, talking with neighbors as well as walking through a drainage area and examining the inside of a culvert with a flashlight.
Investigators have said for more than a week that they believe Nancy Guthrie was taken against her will. She was last seen at home Jan. 31 and reported missing the next day. DNA tests showed blood on her porch was hers, authorities said.
She has high blood pressure and issues with mobility and her heart, and she needs daily medication,
BY STEPHANIE LAM Daily Post Correspondent
The Palo Alto school board yesterday unanimously voted to put a parcel tax renewal on the June ballot.
The tax will be at a lower rate, at $800 per parcel over four years. Right now, residents pay $904.92 per parcel.
For months the school board has been debating whether to put the parcel tax, which will expire in
officials have said. Until now, authorities have released few details, leaving it unclear if ransom notes demanding money with deadlines already passed were authentic, and whether the Guthrie family has had any contact with whoever took Nancy Guthrie.
Family believes she’s alive
Savannah Guthrie posted the new surveillance images on social media yesterday, saying the family believes Nancy Guthrie is still alive and offering phone numbers for the FBI and county sheriff. Within minutes, the post had thousands of comments.
Investigators had hoped cameras would turn up evidence right away about how Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home in an secluded neighborhood.
But the doorbell camera was disconnected early on Feb. 1. While software recorded movement at the home minutes later, Nancy Guthrie did not have an active subscription, so Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos had initially said none of the footage could be recovered. Officials continued working to get the footage.
Heartbreaking messages by Savannah Guthrie and
2027, back on the ballot this June to extend it.
Palo Alto Unified has benefited from the parcel tax since 2001. The current tax is set at $904.92 per parcel, generating approximately $16.5 million per year and is typically used by the district for staffing, compensation and other student-focused programs. The district’s total budget for the 2025-26 year was $354 million, according to documents.
Former board member Todd Collins told the board because of an increase in property tax reve-
her family shifted from hopeful to bleak as they made pleas for whoever took Nancy Guthrie. In a video just ahead of a purported ransom deadline Monday, Savannah Guthrie appeared alone and spoke directly to the public.
“We are at an hour of desperation,” she said. “We need your help.”
Much of the nation is closely following the case involving the longtime anchor of NBC’s morning show.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump watched the new surveillance footage and was in “pure disgust,” encouraging anyone with information to call the FBI.
The FBI this week began posting digital billboards about the case in major cities from Texas to California.
Connor Hagan, a spokesperson for the FBI, said Monday that the agency was not aware of ongoing communication between Guthrie's family and any suspected kidnappers. Authorities also had not identified any suspects, he said.
nue, the district no longer needs the parcel tax because traditional property taxes have increased by a greater amount than what the parcel tax generated. He urged the board to be good financial stewards of the district.
One of the driving considerations of including the tax stems from the district negotiating union proposal that calls for increasing salaries by 28% for teachers and 47% for non-teachers, according to Superintendent Don Austin.
Three days after the search began, Savannah Guthrie and her two siblings sent their first public appeal to whoever took their mother, saying, “We want to hear from you, and we are ready to listen.”
In the recorded video, Guthrie said her family was aware of media reports about a ransom letter, but they first wanted proof their mother was alive. “Please reach out to us,” they said.
The next day, Savannah Guthrie’s brother again made a plea, saying, “Whoever is out there holding our mother, we want to hear from you. We haven’t heard anything directly.”
Then over the past weekend, the family posted another video — one that was more cryptic and generated even more speculation about Nancy Guthrie’s fate.
“We received your message, and we understand. We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” said Savannah Guthrie, flanked by her siblings. “This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.”
Jurors in a landmark social media case that seeks to hold tech companies responsible for harms to children got their first glimpse into what will be a lengthy trial characterized by dueling narratives from the plaintiffs and the two remaining defendants, Meta and YouTube.
At the core of the Los Angeles case is a 20-year-old identified only by the initials “KGM,” whose case could determine how thousands of similar lawsuits will play out. KGM and the cases of two other plaintiffs have been selected to be bellwether trials — essentially test cases to see how their arguments play before a jury.
Opening statements
Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in the Los Angeles Superior Court trial that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and Google’s YouTube responsible for addictive features and harms to children who use their products. Two other defendants, TikTok and Snap, have settled the case.
Meta lawyer Paul Schmidt
spoke of the disagreement within the scientific community over social media addiction, with some researchers believing it doesn’t exist, or that addiction is not the most appropriate way to describe heavy social media use.
Luis Li, the attorney representing YouTube and Google, delivered an opening statement yesterday focused on KGM’s user data, saying the five-year average of her watch time is 29 minutes per day.
He said KGM’s average daily time spent on YouTube Shorts, watching vertical short form videos with the “infinite scroll” feature Lanier called into question Monday, was just 1 minute and 14 seconds.
Internal documents
Lanier, the plaintiff’s lawyer, delivered lively first remarks Monday, where he said the case will be as “easy as ABC” — which stands for “addicting the brains of children.”
He presented jurors with a slew of internal emails, documents and studies conducted by Meta and YouTube, as well as YouTube’s parent company, Google. He emphasized the findings of a study Meta conducted called “Project
Myst,” in which they surveyed 1,000 teens and their parents about their social media use. The two major findings, Lanier said, were that Meta knew children who experienced “adverse events” like trauma and stress were particularly vulnerable for addiction; and that parental supervision and controls made little impact.
He also highlighted internal Google documents that likened some company products to a casino, and internal communication between Meta employees in which one person said Instagram is “like a drug” and they are “basically pushers.”
Addiction questioned Li was insistent that KGM is not addicted to YouTube, pointing to sworn testimony where she directly said she wasn’t addicted to it. He also displayed three large boxes containing about 10,000 pages of medical records, saying that within all of those records, jurors would not see a “single example” of KGM being addicted to YouTube.
KGM made a brief appearance on Monday during Lanier’s statement and she will return to testify later in the trial.
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