Mar. 16, 2026
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BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
Christina Corpus had a golden parachute when she lost her job for corruption as sheriff of San Mateo County.
She will get $402,338.28 a year in pension and health care benefits in her retirement.
Corpus, 55, of San Bruno, re-
tired Oct. 15, just a day before the Board of Supervisors voted to fire her for several reasons including hiring her alleged boyfriend to a top-level job despite his lack of experience.
TROOPS DEPLOYED: About 5,000 U.S. Marines are headed to the Mideast for a possible ground offensive.
TIME TO HELP OUT: President Trump is demanding seven countries heavily dependent on oil shipped through the Strait of Hormuz send warships to keep the waterway open, but he’s received no commitments.
BOMBING INTENSIFIES: Israel has begun widespread strikes on Iran.
SHADOW FLEET: Sweden has detained the captain of a Russian shadow fleet ship.
OFFSHORE DRILLING: The Trump administration has invoked emergency powers under the Defense Production Act and ordered the restart of the Santa Ynez offshore oil platform and pipeline along the Santa Barbara County coast. Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will sue Trump.
WIND FARM REPAIRED: Construction has been completed on
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In retirement, she will receive family medical benefits worth $75,307.44 a year.
“My 14-year-old is severely autistic and requires special medical and educational services,” she said in a court declaration.
Corpus said she retired a day before she was fired so she could keep health insurance for herself and her children, aged 16 and 14, according to court documents.
Police are looking for a mountain lion that’s on the loose in Palo Alto.
The big cat was first spotted in the 700 block of North Hampton Drive in north Palo Alto, not far from Greene Middle School.
It was later reported in the 1900 block of Byron Avenue in the Old Palo
• Best picture: ‘One Battle After Another’
• Best actress: Jessie Buckley, ‘Hamnet’
• Best actor: Michael B. Jordan, ‘Sinners’
• Best director: Paul Thomas Anderson, ‘One Battle After Another’
And seen here is EJAE, winner of the Oscar for best original song for “Golden” in “K-pop Demon Hunters.” AP photo.
In retirement, she receives $27,252.57 a month or $327,030.84 a year, according to the county’s pension agency, SamCERA.
Her pension benefits will be ad-
BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer
The Palo Alto Unified School District is in the middle of at least 11 different lawsuits, including cases that allege unchecked bullying, racist attacks, injured students, inadequate special education and retaliation by district leadership.
The growing number of lawsuits against the district came to the fore when the school board voted Feb. 10 to pay former P.E. teacher Peter Colombo $3.25 million to drop his case.
Colombo accused the district of mishandling an unsubstantiated rape allegation against him from 2002.
Colombo claimed that former Superintendent Don
Alto neighborhood, about three blocks from the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo. Police said it was likely to move again.
While the mountain lion didn’t display aggressive behavior, “Residents in the immediate area should be
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Ann Griffiths is celebrating her First Sale 51 years ago, March 17, 1975 on St. Patrick’s Day The First house sold on Bay Road, Menlo Park for more than $100,000.
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer
A man sentenced to two years and six months in prison for attempting to kidnap a student at Sequoia High School in Redwood City will not go to San Quentin because he has already been in jail for that long, a prosecutor said.
Trey Von Duus, 25, of Buellton in Santa Barbara County, pleaded no contest to attempting to kidnap a 16-yearold student, District Attorney Steve
Wagstaffe said. He was sentenced on Friday but he was released because of the time he had already served in jail waiting for his case to end, the DA said.
Duus entered the school at 1201 Brewster Ave. and grabbed a 16-yearold and told the student to come with him, but was confronted by a teacher on July 18, 2024, according to Wagstaffe.
“I need to take him, I work for the government, I come with the police,”
Duus said, according to the DA’s office.
Duus told the teacher he had a gun, Wagstaffe said. The teacher put herself between Duus and the student and got him to leave the room as a teaching aide locked the door behind him, Wagstaffe said.
A custodian saw that Duus had a silver steak knife and was acting strangely, Wagstaffe said. Duus emerged from behind a pillar and did not cooperate
with instructions. Police used what they call a “less-than-lethal round,” such as a rubber bullet and tackled him. But he would still not cooperate, so they ended up having to shoot him with a Taser, Wagstaffe said.
In police custody, Duus stated that he didn’t know what happened at the school, then continued saying he was a Russian spy trying to solve a murder committed by a student, Wagstaffe said.
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CHINA-U.S. TALKS: China’s official news agency Xinhua reports that representatives from Beijing and Washington have begun their economic and trade talks in Paris. Yesterday’s meetings, led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, are expected to pave the way for President Trump’s visit to Beijing to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in about two weeks.
THEATERGOERS HOP TO BOX OFFICE: Pixar’s “Hoppers” held onto its spot atop the box office, bringing in $28.5 million in its second weekend. After its $45.3 million debut, “Hoppers” dipped a modest 37% in its second weekend, a promising sign for an animated movie. In second was Colleen Hoover’s “Reminders of Him” with a better-thanexpected $18.3 million.
Readers have asked why our birth announcements are delayed several months. None of the Mid-Peninsula hospitals provide lists of new births. So the Post gets the births from the state Department of Health, which provides the information at a delay. All births and deaths are public record under state law.
El Camino Hospital in Mountain View:
Aug. 6
Kira Jo Balagopal, a girl
Lennyn Mack Bartmann, a boy
Neel Adisesh Narasimha Bharadwaj, a boy
Delle Hayden Devilla, a girl
Noa Lillian Frostig, a girl
Aura Martinez, a girl
Esha Rigvid Mehta, a girl
Elian Quintanar Gonzalez, a boy
Luka Song, a boy
Meher Syed, a girl
Nushka Ajinkya Tarkunde, a girl
Savannah Van Tran, a girl
Leo Mingxuan Xu, a boy
Luisa Xu, a girl
Aug. 5
Arolake Atolani Sophia Akinkuotu, a girl
Saniya Amira Algharib, a girl
Ambruni Vinay Chaturvedi, a girl
Arthur Hayes Delmuro, a boy
Sundariya Enkh Amgalan, a girl
Haruka Hugo Kanda, a boy
Akshara Kannan, a girl
Ellie Lee, a girl
Bella Liu, a girl
Kabir Narang, a boy
Lucia Tang, a girl
Nunia Haapopoai Tulikihakau Tavake, a girl
Aug. 4
Miracle Denise Heffner, a girl
Miriam Chenxing Khieu, a girl
Avery Rae Lai, a girl
Joshua Darwin Lazary, a boy
Santiago Gael Leyva Garcia, a boy
Luke Molchan, a boy
Ruhi Nandakumar, a girl
Dhruvish Navile, a boy
Logan James Race, a boy
Maitreya Adinath Unnikrishnan, a boy
Yvette Shiyi Wang, a girl
Aug. 3
Boyang Gao, a boy
Inara Singh Gupta, a girl
Beatrix Briar Fawn Hanley, a girl
Aliza Fatima Hazari, a girl
Ahaana Snehal Mangal, a girl
Luca Shi, a boy
Sophie Ysabel Van Der Wijst, a girl
Aug. 2
Melanie Jiang, a girl
Isabel Muniz Suarez, a girl
Eden Mary Philip, a girl
Vrinda Potta, a girl
Ella Ruf, a girl
Darby Mcritchie Storck, a girl
Esmeralda Salome Treuhaft Silva, a girl
Dear Editor: I am disgusted to see Eileen Gu honored in a parade in San Francisco, which was featured promi nently on last Monday’s front page of the Daily Post.
Yes, she is mainly from the Bay Area. She is a Stanford graduate, with a semester spent in England, and some summers in China. Her mother and grandmother (who helped raise her) are Chinese, and her father is an American.
But when it came to representing a country in the Olympics, she sold out to the highest bidder: China, who also happens to be our country’s greatest enemy.
I realize most Americans are not yet cognizant of this, nor that our recent actions in Panama, Venezuela, Iran and
(by way of assisting Ukraine, Russia) have China as the ultimate target we are trying to keep in check. So to have such a lovely and insane ly intelligent young woman sell out her amazing physical talents to win medals for our greatest enemy is embarrassing and shameful. She certainly doesn’t warrant a parade in her honor! But alas, maybe now she can afford to buy a nice house in the Bay Area, which is her true home, with her corrupt cash. So who can really blame her for prosti tuting herself in this way?
Howard Welch Mountain View
Dear Editor: The Daily Post article “Board may direct teachers to offer ad
vanced math class” could benefit from one clarification about how courses are offered. District policy states that while the Board of Education approves courses, final inclusion in a school’s course catalog is determined by the site principal.
While staff may advise them, princi pals make the final decision about what courses are offered to students.
In this case, a teacher has already proposed and prepared to teach the course. Any board directive would therefore concern administrative de cisions about offering it, not teachers’ willingness to teach it.
Daniel Nguyen Palo Alto High School teacher San Jose
Dear Editor: Former San Mateo College Chancellor Ron Galatolo was convicted of eight felonies, yet he gets to keep his $500,000 a year pension! Where is the justice? He was convicted and rewarded.
Steve Duncan Burlingame
Dear Editor: Bay Area voters will see a half‑cent regressive sales tax on the November ballot for BART and other Bay Area transit agencies.
BART faces many problems, includ ing an unsustainable cost structure.
Should this tax increase pass, the proceeds will primarily cover ongoing operating deficits and debt repayment.
They will not fund substantial improve ments that could permanently enhance rider safety, the rider experience, or sta tion cleanliness, which could increase ridership. The ballot language literally commits to no specific tangible im provement for BART.
As taxpayers, we’re being asked to pour money into a bathtub with the drain wide open.
How’d we get here?
Many reasons. Most fundamentally, when BART ridership (currently less than 50% of pre pandemic levels) cra tered after the pandemic, operational costs rose 43% from fiscal year 2021 to 2024.
In 2024, BART paid over 100 em ployees $285,000 or more.
Taxpayers must insist BART reform its cost structure first before consider ing this sales tax. Vote “no.”
Christopher J. Keane Redwood City
Dear Editor: The Daily Post report ed that 38% of undergraduate students at Stanford University are registered as having a disability. That should prompt serious public scrutiny.
Students with legitimate disabilities absolutely deserve accommodations and support. That principle is funda mental.
But when nearly four out of 10 stu dents at one of the most selective uni versities in the world qualify for aca demic or housing accommodations,
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the public deserves transparency about how those determinations are made.
Access to private psychological evaluations, specialists and consultants is often closely tied to wealth. Families with resources are better positioned to obtain the documentation needed to secure accommodations such as extended test time or housing preferences. Students without those advantages may not have the same opportunity.
Programs designed to protect students with genuine disabilities must not become systems that quietly reinforce privilege. If these numbers are accurate, then California policymakers and higher-education oversight bodies should review how disability accommodations are evaluated and administered at elite institutions.
Universities such as Stanford play an important role in shaping future leaders.
That role carries a responsibility to
ensure that fairness — not influence or resources — determines opportunity.
Public trust in higher education depends on it.
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Dear Editor: What kind of agency allows an ex-CEO to remain onboard as a “paid advisor” at a salary of $716,000? Well, that would be Valley Water and the ex-CEO is Rick Callender.
This despicable type of agreement seems to happen more and more in the public sector, at a tremendous cost to taxpayers.
Is this the result of a weak-kneed water board or just old boy politics as usual? No wonder water bills are skyrocketing and high ranking officials seem to just do what they please, knowing there is no real accountability with their actions.
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The brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week, who was killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, was a Hezbollah commander, Israel’s military said yesterday.
Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in Lebanon along with three other of the attacker’s relatives on March 5 — a week before authorities allege Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his car into a major
synagogue outside Detroit and killed himself after security fired at him.
The FBI’s Detroit office, which is investigating the synagogue attack, declined to comment on the claims by Israel’s military about Ibrahim Ghazali.
The Israeli military alleges Ibrahim Ghazali was a Hezbollah commander who managed weapons for a unit that fired rockets at Israel.
Mohamed Bailor Jalloh yelled “Allahu akbar” and asked whether those in the Old Dominion university classroom were holding an ROTC event on the campus in Virginia before he opened fire, according to authorities.
Jalloh killed Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, an ROTC leader, and wounded two others. Then Jalloh was killed by the students in self-defense. FBI officials praised the students’ bravery for preventing further harm.
One of the people wounded has since been released from one hospital while another hospital said the other person is in fair condition.
ROTC students receive a scholarship to attend college while training to become commissioned officers in the U.S. military.
Terrorism suspected
The campus shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism, FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media.
Jalloh was a naturalized U.S. citizen
from Sierra Leone who was a specialist with the Virginia Army National Guard until 2015, when he was honorably discharged.
Released from prison early
In 2017, he pleaded guilty to providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, ISIS, and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released early after completing a drug treatment program even though drugs weren’t part of the charges that sent him to prison.
It wasn’t clear how he qualified for early release since inmates serving sentences for terrorism-related offenses typically aren’t eligible for such programs or other sentence-reducing credits.
Jalloh had been transferred from a prison facility to a residential reentry center, or halfway house, in August 2024, and released from federal custody later that year, according to court records.
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A nationally recognized skin cancer, Mohs and cosmetic dermatologic surgeon, Dr. Morganroth began his career in 1995 in Mountain View and then spent 30 years building up the largest physician-owned and controlled dermatology in the country, with 48 California locations. After selling the practice early this year, he contemplated retirement but ultimately felt that, with his unique experience as both a dermatology innovator and business owner, he had more to offer.
In February of 2025, he and his team of boardcertified dermatologists and staff from his old company opened Palo Alto Dermatology Institute at 301 High St. in Palo Alto. The goal: to provide expert care that centers on the ultimate patient experience. Instead of packing schedules each day, they purposely leave space to accommodate new or sameday appointments. With a state-of-the art facility (soon to include a Medicare-approved outpatient surgery center), they can perform biopsies on-site immediately so that any needed follow-up can be addressed that day or as soon as possible. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Morganroth was able to use frozen tissue excision – a technique normally
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One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican’s backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
The invitation-only conference in Rome, which ends on Wednesday, has proven so controversial that the Catholic universities initially associated with it have all denied official involvement.
Thiel is a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir. He is also deeply interested in the apocalyptic concept
of the Antichrist and has written and lectured on it before.
“Christians debated these prophecies for millennia. Who was the Antichrist? When would he arrive? What would he preach?” he mused in a November essay in the Catholic magazine First Things.
Discussion of the Antichrist by a tech billionaire in the Vatican’s backyard has proven divisive.
Initially, the lectures were reportedly going to be held at the Pontifical St. Thomas Aquinas
University, the Dominican university in Rome known colloquially as the Angelicum. It is best known these days as the place where a young priest named Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote his canon law doctoral thesis.
But as word began to circulate about alleged secret lectures on the Antichrist by Thiel at the pope’s alma mater, the Angelicum took its distance:
“We would like to clarify that this event is not organized by the university, will not take place at the Angelicum, and is not part of any of our institutional initiatives,” the university said in a statement.
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The biggest new restaurant trend is small.
Special menus with petite, less expensive portions are popping up all over, from large chains like Olive Garden and The Cheesecake Factory to trendy urban eateries and farm-to-fork dining rooms.
Restaurants hope that offering smaller servings beyond the children’s menu will meet many different diners’ needs. Some people want to spend less when they go out. Others are looking for healthier options or trying to lose weight. Younger consumers tend to snack more throughout the day and eat smaller meals, said Maeve Webster, the president of culinary consulting firm
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2061 Tasso St., 94301, 3 bedrooms, 1906 square feet, built in 1936, West Family Trust to Yanqing and Ze Zhang for $5,100,000, closed Feb. 13 1700 Waverley St., 94301, 5 bedrooms, 7103 square feet, built in 2022, 1700Waverley LLC to 1700 Pa LLC for $20,500,000, closed Feb. 9
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1111 Hobart St., 94025,
4 bedrooms, 1740 square feet, built in 1952, Redwood Mortgage Corporation to Evertao Development LLC for $4,500,000, closed Jan. 30 (last sale: $1,150,000, 12-18-02)
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500 W. Middlefield Road #18, 94043, 2 bedrooms,
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1945 Mount Vernon Court #16, 94040, 2 bedrooms, 1299 square feet, built in 1964, Forstner Trust to Toposence Assets LLC for $825,000, closed Feb. 12
215 Horizon Ave., 94043, 3 bedrooms, 1336 square feet, built in 1973, McGhee-Reichenthal Trust to Woong and Jong Lee for $1,325,000, closed Feb. 12 (last sale: $800,000, 0401-14)
125 Fairchild Drive, 94043, 2 bedrooms, 1323 square feet, built in 2016, Singh Living Trust to Krethikram Gowrisankar for $1,350,500, closed Feb. 9 (last sale: $1,210,000, 06-09-21)
795 Hillcrest Drive, 94062, 3 bedrooms, 2460 square feet, built in 1965, Ryan Trust to Cortez Sea LLC for $1,975,000, closed Jan. 30
816 Corriente Point Drive, 94065, 4 bedrooms, 2799 square feet, built in 1996, Coulson C and 2014 F Trust Of to Xueqing and Tingfeng Yan for $2,850,000, closed Jan. 30
2593 Hastings Ave., 94061, 4 bedrooms, 1930 square feet, built in 1952, Morton Trust to Chiara and Gary Goldman for $1,900,000, closed Jan. 30
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Times shown are when a report was made to police. Information is from police
1:50 p.m. — Christina Johnson, 29, of Redwood City, arrested on a warrant, 600 block of San Antonio Road.
2 p.m. — Home burglary, 300 block of Marquetta Circle.
WEDNESDAY
1:40 a.m. — Elliot Edward Holt, 43, transient, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 400 block of Bryant St.
8:07 a.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, Roosevelt Circle.
9:35 p.m. — Auto burglary, 400 block of Lytton Ave.
9:54 p.m. — Auto burglary, 500 block of High St.
10 p.m. — Auto burglary, 300 block of Lytton Ave.
11:15 p.m. — Auto burglary, 300 block of University Ave.
FRIDAY
12:59 p.m. — Camera trailer vandalized, Willow Alley and Pierce Road.
6:20 p.m. — Fraud, Lorelei Lane.
SATURDAY
1:30 p.m. — Grand theft, 500 block of Oak Grove Ave.
4:01 p.m. — Sheik Ali, 43, transient, cited for petty theft, 600 block of Santa Cruz Ave.
8:53 p.m. — Burglary, 200 block of Lennox Ave.
MARCH 6
11:40 a.m. — Theft from a vehicle, 100 block of Searsville Road.
12:42 p.m. — Auto burglary, 200 block of Galvez St.
1:33 p.m. — Hate incident, 400 block of Jane Stanford Way.
11:54 p.m. — Home burglary, 900 block of Lathrop Place.
MARCH 6
12:19 a.m. — Home burglary, 200 block of Athena Court.
1:07 a.m. — Ruchir Tewari, 50, of Mountain View, arrested for domestic violence and child endangerment, 2000 block of California St.
7:28 a.m. — Home burglary, 2200 block of W. Middlefield Road.
1:18 p.m. — Theft at Target, 555 Showers Drive.
4:31 p.m. — Vehicle stolen, 2700 block of Garcia Ave.
4:49 p.m. — Home burglary, 700 block of Continental Circle.
11:44 p.m. — Michael King, 43, arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting police, Yuba Drive and Church St. MARCH 7
2:44 a.m. — Mario Hernandez, 42, of Mountain View, arrested for narcotics possession, Showers Drive and Latham St.
7:36 a.m. — Auto burglary, 100 block of Franklin St.
5:31 p.m. — Dawn Winap, 55, arrested for throwing a substance at a vehicle, public drunkenness and failure to register as an arson offender, 100 block of E. El Camino.
7:20 p.m. — Theft at Therapy Store, 250 Castro St.
9:33 p.m. — Home burglary, 1100 block of Armand Drive. Roland Miller, 58, of San Jose, arrested for burglary.
11:37 p.m. — Sotero Zarate, 44, of Cupertino, arrested for drug possession, 1900 block of W. El Camino.
11:41 p.m. — Jose Murillo, 25, of San Jose, arrested on a warrant, Highway 85 and Highway 101.
TUESDAY
1:50 p.m. — Home burglary, 2000 block of Robinhood Lane.
4:46 p.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, Oakhurst and Portola avenues.
10:16 p.m. — Alfredo Perez, 29, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Springer Road and Rosita Ave.
FRIDAY
2:47 p.m. — Petty theft, Valparaiso Ave.
TUESDAY
5:48 p.m. — Daniyar Yeleussinov, 34, arrested for public drunkenness, El
Camino and Center St. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
6:14 p.m. — Conception Top Chic, 29, cited for driving with a suspended or revoked license, Marshall and Hamilton streets.
WEDNESDAY
12:13 a.m. — Man says he honked at another man in a drivethru and the other man got out of his car and challenged him to a fight, Middlefield Road.
12:42 a.m. — Delfina Mariaventura, 38, cited on a warrant, Seaport Blvd. and Blomquist St. Citation given by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
1:10 a.m. — Caller says two people in ski masks were going into a garage, Main St. Police are unable to find the pair.
10:16 a.m. — Caller says a man was hitting a vehicle with a shovel, Bradford St.
10:41 a.m. — Javier Pulido, 37, arrested for vandalism, 1900 block of El Camino. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.
4:11 p.m. — Efrain Rueda Chavez, 34, of East Palo Alto, arrested for domestic violence and vandalism, 800 block of Veterans Blvd.
5:27 p.m. — Home burglary, Washington Ave.
5:56 p.m. — Celia Zuleyka Dardon Garcia, 25, of San Francisco, arrested for DUI, El Camino and Chestnut St.
THURSDAY
12:51 a.m. — Efrain Puluc Ajvix, 64, of Redwood City, arrested for public drunkenness and assault with a deadly weapon, Roosevelt Ave. and El Camino.
12:11 p.m. — Four purses belonging to employees at a business are stolen, El Camino.
12:50 p.m. — Corey Alexander Stevens, 32, transient, arrested for grand theft and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, 1700 block of El Camino.
1:21 p.m. — Glass door shattered, Washington Ave.
7:56 p.m. — Auto burglary, Turnsworth Ave.
8:41 p.m. — Vehicle hits a parked vehicle and then the driver takes off on foot, McGarvey Ave.
10:23 p.m. — Robbery at knifepoint, Rolison Road.
11:59 p.m. — Caller says a group
of men in ski masks are trying car doors, Marshall. St. Joshua Acosta Lopez, 19, and Nils Walter Forsman, 19, of Redwood City, both arrested for auto burglary and conspiracy to commit a crime. Acosta Lopez is also arrested for resisting police.
THURSDAY
6:30 p.m. — Rollin Jeter, 27, arrested on a warrant and Michael Antwan Nelson, 30, cited on a warrant, 2000 block of Ralston Ave.
10:23 p.m. — Gabriel Rangel Jaime, 33, cited on a warrant, 1400 block of Old County Road.
FRIDAY
5:31 a.m. — Auto burglary, Garden Court.
9:31 a.m. — Rear license plate stolen from a vehicle, Sixth Ave.
4:59 p.m. — Man reported to be touching himself lewdly in public, Ralston Ave. Terrell Glenn Brooks, 65, arrested for indecent exposure and possession of drug paraphernalia, 900 block of El Camino.
6:51 p.m. — Man steals groceries from a store, El Camino.
From the Redwood City office of the CHP, which covers the Mid-Peninsula.
FEB. 24
Kalvin A. Mar, 36, arrested for domestic violence.
FEB. 25
Eric H. Hoey, 27, arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and possession of narcotics for sale.
Christopher A. Miranda Bonilla, 27, arrested for DUI and recklessly evading police in a vehicle.
MARCH 3
Jesper E. Andersen, 41, arrested for driving under the influence of drugs, possession of cannabis for sale and possession of toluene or a similar substance with the intent to huff it.
Aidan F. Lomeli, 19, arrested for driving under the influence of drugs and drug possession.
MARCH 5
Vanessa H. Espita, 40, arrested for DUI.
Maricar Serdon, 41, arrested for trespassing and evading police in a vehicle.
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the inflation rate. How much will her retirement cost? Adding her pension benefits of $327,030.84 and her medical benefits of $75,307.44, she will cost $402,338.28 a year.
Tax-free pension?
And she may be able to get more money from taxpayers.
Law enforcement officers who claim to be disabled can receive a tax-free pension. Originally, the benefit was for officers who were wounded in the line of duty. But by 2005, 80% of the chiefs in the CHP were retiring with medical pensions that were tax-free, according to an investigation by the Sacramento Bee. The retired officers were claiming they suffered from irritable bowel syndrome or stress, two maladies that are difficult for doctors to document.
After the Bee’s story was published, politicians promised reforms, but it is still possible for retired law enforcement officers to get tax-free pensions.
The agencies handling Corpus’ pension have refused to say if she has been granted a medical pension. However, a tax-free pension would significantly increase the cash she receives every month.
Public-sector pensions are based on years of employment, an employee’s final salary or final three years of salary, and other specifics in the pension plan the employee has selected.
‘They don’t deserve me’
Corpus moved up through the ranks in the sheriff’s office for over 20 years and made $384,246 in total pay plus $253,871 in benefits in 2024, according to records from Transparent California, a nonprofit, nonpartisan website that tracks public-sector pay.
Corpus was fired by the board on Oct. 14 after a tumultuous two years and nine months in office. Inves-
tigations showed she had given her alleged boyfriend the job of chief-of-staff and she engaged in intimidation and retaliation of employees. She was accused of arresting one of her critics and demoting others.
On Corpus’ last day, she told ABC7’s Dan Noyes, who had become her unofficial spokesman, that she retired “under duress” so she could retain her medical benefits for herself and her children.
She said, “I’ll be OK. They don’t deserve me.”
Austin withheld documents showing that he worked at a different school at the time of the accusation, tarnishing his reputation.
The latest cases were filed in February by two former employees: Assistant to the Superintendent Victoria Maya and Custodial Supervisor Wei Kung.
Maya said that acting Superintendent Trent Bahadursingh called her “the ‘P’ word” for taking medical leave in February 2023 after a coworker yelled and screamed at her.
“After learning of Bahadursingh’s anger towards her, she no longer felt safe to return to work,” Maya’s lawsuit said.
Bribery alleged
Kung said she was fired in June for complaining about Maintenance and Operations Director Mark Herrera possibly taking bribes from vendors.
Both Maya and Kung said they were treated differently than male employees.
The district won’t talk about the cases.
“We respect that anyone has the right to pursue legal action. As is standard practice, the district is not able to comment further on pending litigation or personnel matters,” spokeswoman Lynette White said in an email on Tuesday.
Former Palo Alto High School robotics teacher
Kathleen Krier is headed for a trial on March 30 on her claims that she faced homophobia and bullying from parents while she was a robotics teacher in 2018, and the district did nothing to help.
Krier claims boosters harassed her because she was trying to make the team more diverse at the district’s urging. One of the boosters allegedly referred to Krier as “him” and “he,” which was offensive to Krier as a woman and a lesbian.
Krier said that on Aug. 15, 2018, she went to her office and found that her gay pride rainbow flag had been broken and put in the trash. She alleges that the boosters encouraged student to complain about her.
Substitute teacher James Hong sued the district on Feb. 19, 2025, for allegedly firing him after he testified at a hearing about the district’s failures to address the needs of special education students.
Hong taught special education at Gunn High School, JLS Middle School and Greene Middle School from August 2023 to December 2024. But Hong was neither trained nor certificated as a special education teacher, his suit said.
Parents William Nee and Wei-Wei Lin are suing the district for allegedly taking too long to respond to a public records request for thousands of pages related to how the district handles special education.
Nee and Lin filed their request on Nov. 30, 2022, but the documents still haven’t been provided, their attorney said in a brief last month.
Diana Fox, a Black teacher’s aide at Gunn High School, sued the district on June 2 for allegedly firing her after she reported that she received racist text messages from a coworker.
Fox said she received four racist texts calling her the n-word, referencing her skin color and telling her not to go back to Gunn.
“They hate you here at Gunn, hoping you’ll quit. Just do yourself a favor and don’t return,” one text
allegedly said. Fox said she forwarded the messages to Assistant Principal Kat Catalano the next day. Catalano replied “thanks” and said she would check in after winter break. But she never followed up and moved Fox into a different classroom on Jan. 7, 2025, according to the lawsuit.
Fox said she reported the texts to her staffing agency and was fired by the district the next day.
Three of the cases against the district are from parents who said their kids were injured or inappropriately touched on campus.
Students claim abuse
Parents of a 9-year-old African-American boy are suing the district and its after-school program, Right At School, over three weeks of alleged abuse at Escondido Elementary School in January 2024.
Former Right At School employee Daniel Bueno, 27, of San Carlos, told students to attack the boy, who was chased down, kicked in the groin and stomped on his side, Stanford Deputy Pete Posada said in a police report.
The boy told Posada that Bueno also locked him in a closet and swung a jump rope at him.
Bueno signed a plea deal to do 60 days in the sheriff’s weekend work program on Feb. 5, 2025, court records show.
The district counter-sued Right At
School and its employees on Nov. 17.
A hearing is scheduled on Wednesday.
Parents Todd and Kerry Feinberg sued the district after their son fell on playground steps at Ohlone Elementary School on April 21, 2023. The boy allegedly cut his face on a sharp edge of fiberglass, resulting in stitches and a scar.
A judge will schedule a trial on Wednesday that’s expected to last three to five days, court records show.
The family of a girl in kindergarten at Ohlone Elementary School claims the district allowed her to be poked between her legs by three boys in February 2024, among other inappropriate touching.
Principal Elsa Chen “repeatedly minimized the incidents, referring to them as a mutual ‘game’ among the students,” the family’s suit said.
The family notified Austin, but he didn’t intervene, the suit said. Both sides are exchanging evidence before a possible trial on Feb. 22, 2027.
Paly principal accused
A mother is suing the district after her son, a freshman at Palo Alto High School, was allegedly questioned for more than two hours without food or water about another student sending around pornographic materials.
Principal Brent Kline allegedly brought up the student’s art projects and Wikipedia browsing history, even though they had nothing to do with the
incident, and the student was suspended for the last month of the 2021-22 school year, the suit said.
Trial is set for Feb. 16, 2027.
Another former Paly student, Joshua Vasquez, is suing the district for allegedly allowing him to be bullied starting in September 2021. Vasquez said the other student spread rumors about him and urged his football teammates to attack him. His case is scheduled for a trial on Sept. 14.
All of the cases were filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court or federal court. The law firm Davis Bengston & Young is defending the district, court records show.
aware and keep pets indoors,” police said.
It’s not unusual for mountain lions to visit Palo Alto’s neighborhoods. When California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers catch up with the big cats, they will shoot them with a tranquilizer and then take them to a rural area where they won’t come in contact with people.
Animal Control officers and personnel from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife were on the hunt for the puma throughout the weekend.
Your finger length could explain your sexual preference, according to a study from the UK.
It says those with a big difference between their ring fingers and index fingers are more likely to be gay.
And those whose two digits are the same length are probably straight.
Researchers say finger length and sexuality are both linked to testosterone exposure in the womb.
Notice is hereby given that the governing board (“Board”) of the Mountain View Whisman School District (“District”) will receive sealed bids to construct the following project:
Theuerkauf Elementary School Restroom Modernization Project (“Project” or “Contract”)
Bidders must submit sealed bids on or before 1:00p.m., April 6, 2026,at the District Office, located at 1400 Montecito Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043, and Bidders must ensure that the District time stamps the Bidder’s bid at or before that time. After the designated bid opening time, the District will open the bids and publicly read them aloud. Any claim by a Bidder of error in its bid must be made in compliance with Public Contract Code § 5100, et seq. The District is not responsible for (1) bids received after the deadline noted above; or (2) bids misdelivered, by any method, even to a different District address.
Babies exposed to higher levels of the male sex hormone have a greater chance of being homosexual. And their index and ring fingers are also more likely to be different lengths.
identical twins — 18 pairs of women and 14 of men — where one in each set was straight.
The study by the University of Essex involved
The findings are published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour.
The Project consists of:
Toilet modernization in Buildings C, D, and H
All bids shall be on the forms provided by the District. Each bid must conform and be responsive to all pertinent bid and Contract Documents, including, but not limited to, the Instructions to Bidders.
To bid on this Project, the Bidder is required to possess one or more of the following State of California Contractor Licenses:
B – General Building Contractor
The Bidder’s license(s) must be active and in good standing at the time of the bid opening and must remain so throughout the term of the Contract.
As security for its Bid, each Bidder shall provide with its Bid form
• a bid bond issued by an admitted surety insurer on the form provided by the District,
• cash, or
• a cashier’s check or a certified check, drawn to the order of the Mountain View Whisman School District, in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the total bid price. This bid security shall be a guarantee that the Bidder shall, within seven (7) calendar days after the date of the Notice of Award, enter into a contract with the District for the performance of the services as stipulated in the bid.
The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a 100% Performance Bond and a 100% Payment Bond if it is awarded the Contract for the Project.
The successful Bidder may substitute securities for any monies withheld by the District to ensure performance under the Contract, in accordance with the provisions of Public Contract Code § 22300.
The successful Bidder and its subcontractors shall pay all workers on the Project not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, for the type of work performed and the locality in which the work is to be performed within the boundaries of the District, pursuant to Labor Code § 1770 et seq. Prevailing wage rates are on file with the District and are available to any interested party on request or at www.dir.ca.gov/oprl/statistics_and_databases.html. Bidders and Bidders’ subcontractors shall comply with the registration and qualification requirements pursuant to Labor Code §§ 1725.5 & 1771.1.
A voluntary pre-bid conference and site visit will be held on March 23, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. at Theuerkauf Elementary School, 1625 San Luis Avenue, Mountain View, California. All prospective Bidders are required to sign in at the Administration Building. The Site Visit is expected to take approximately one [1] hour.
Contract Documents are available on March 6, 2026, for review by contacting Brenda Parella-Greystone West brenda@greystonewest.com for an electronic set of plans and a list of the builders’ exchanges.
The District’s Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids and/or waive any irregularity in any bid received. If the District awards the Contract, the security of unsuccessful Bidder(s) shall be returned within sixty (60) days from the time the award is made. Unless otherwise required by law, no Bidder may withdraw its bid or bid security for ninety (90) days after the date of the bid opening. The District shall award the Contract, if it awards it at all, to the lowest responsive responsible Bidder based on: The base bid amount only.
Mountain View Whisman School District By:
Rebecca Westover, Ed. D, Chief Business Officer
Publication Dates: (1) March 9, 2026 (2) March 16, 2026
