As property values decline in San Mateo County, governments are feeling the pain.
According to county data released this month, Peninsula property values declined a whopping $4 billion in the 2009-10 tax year, which worked out to $40 million less in property tax revenue for governments.
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New details about an East Palo Alto man’s fatal car chase with cops last week revealed the suspect allegedly lit up a crack pipe at high speeds and ignored his passengers’ pleas to stop the vehicle.
Eric Anthony Banford, 46, is facing a murder charge after 50-year-old motorcyclist Danny Dixon, also of East Palo Alto, was killed Wednesday.
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A young girl was struck and killed by a car in East Palo Alto this morning, just a block away from where a motorcyclist died after being hit by a driver fleeing from police, authorities said. The child was struck at about 8:15 a.m. at Bay Road and Gloria Way, Menlo Park Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said.
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A motorcyclist died this morning in East Palo Alto after being struck by a car whose driver was fleeing from police. East Palo Alto acting police Capt. Jeff Liu said that at about 5:25 a.m., police learned of a suspicious vehicle that didn’t have its lights on.An officer tried to pull the car over but the driver accelerated away and drove the wrong way on University Avenue, he said.
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On Tuesday, some nine cities in San Mateo County hope to turn back the clock to a time when neighbors looked out for each other.
National Night Out is an annual meet-and-greet where folks hang out in front of their homes, meet their neighbors, maybe serve food or ice cream, and meet local police.
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The San Mateo County coroner’s office has identified a 19-year-old who died in a Sunday night shooting in East Palo Alto as Kevin Guzman.Guzman, who was an East Palo Alto resident, and an 18-year-old man were found shot in a parking lot at 1489 East Bayshore Road around 10:30 p.m., according to East Palo Alto police.Guzman was pronounced dead at the scene.The 18-year-old was taken to Stanford Hospital and is expected to survive his injuries, police said.
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A teenager was killed in a double-shooting in East Palo Alto Sunday night, police said.Gunfire erupted in the parking lot on East Bayshore Road around 10:25 p.m. A 19-year-old man suffered fatal wounds. An 18-year-old man had nonlife-threatening injuries.Police have yet to determine a motive in the shooting.Anyone with information regarding the homicide is encouraged send an anonymous cell phone text message or to leave a voicemail message to (650) 409-6792.
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Police are hunting a gunman in the cold-blooded killing of a 23-year-old man on an East Palo Alto sidewalk Monday.Jabari Banford suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the 2500 block of Avenue at 8:50 p.m. Officers found him lying on the sidewalk. He died at the scene.Banford was talking to people in a car when another car pulled up behind the vehicle. A gunman got out of the car, walked up to Banford and opened fire, police said.
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An East Palo Alto man enraged that his daughter didn’t want to attend college allegedly stabbed a relative with a butcher knife after he was asked to calm down, prosecutors said.Panapasa Vatu, 52, was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on one count of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the bloody kitchen spat on May 17.
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The teen killers who outraged a community after slaying a 3-month-old child in East Palo Alto pumped 15 bullets into the car containing the boy and his family, according to prosecutors. Murder suspect 17-year-old Fabian Zaragoza is being tried as an adult and is scheduled to enter his plea Wednesday.
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