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THURSDAY, June 11, 2015
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CORRECTION: A story yesterday incorrectly stated the Palo Alto school district accused the federal Offi ce for Civil Rights of tampering with a docu-ment. The district cited OCR’s failure to provide evidence that a witness tampered with a document.
PRISON BREAK: Authorities searching for two killers who escaped from an upstate New York prison acknowledge being in the dark about their whereabouts. That’s even as the hunt for the men expanded past state borders into Vermont. Joyce Mitchell, 51, an employee of the prison in Dannemora, is suspected of helping convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat bust out from the facility over the weekend.
MORE TROOPS TO IRAQ: President Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more American troops to Iraq yesterday in an effort to reverse major battlefi eld losses to ISIS.
AMERICAN DIES IN SYRIA: An American fi ghting with Kurdish forces against ISIS in Syria has been killed in battle, authorities said yesterday, making him likely the fi rst U.S.
BY ANGELA RUGGIERO Daily Post Staff Writer
During a trial of a Stanford student accused of blocking the San Mateo Bridge during a pro-test, a juror sent the judge a note asking that both sides get to the point, a prosecutor said yesterday.
“This case appears to be an open and shut case,” the juror said.
“It is all on video. I do not understand the
Juror complainsprotester trial is a waste of time
BY ANGELA RUGGIERO Daily Post Staff Writer
The Mountain View Whisman School District has for years sent its fi fth graders to the Walden West environmental camp in Saratoga — including the time that a former employee, who is is accused of mo-lesting children, was working there.
Edgar Covarrubias, 27, was ar-rested May 7 and faces charges of child molestation, possession of child pornography and manufac-
turing child porn. The Mountain View Whisman School District confi rmed yesterday that it did send its fi fth-grade students in October
or November 2014, the same time Covarrubias worked at the camp, which is operated by the Santa Clara County Offi ce of Education. The weeklong outdoor science camp is for fi fth- and sixth-graders.
The parents of two of Covar-rubias’ alleged victims have fi led
COVARRUBIAS
BY BREENA KERRDaily Post Staff Writer
A Palo Alto entrepreneur told the Post yesterday that he’s found a way to solve the water crisis without let-ting people’s lawns go brown by us-ing free water that’s recycled in Palo Alto.
“Water is a quality of life, fun-damental issue, like roads and in-frastructure,” said Chris Zaharias, a founder of RainDance watering service. “You could be ‘a green’ or a billionaire in Woodside and have the same issue — which is that we’re screwed if we don’t get ahead of this
BY JEN NOWELLDaily Post Staff Writer
A woman called police after she saw a bucket fi lled with skulls and bones in an Atherton resident’s backyard, police said yesterday.
The Atherton resident was cleaning out her late father’s home on Toyon Road on Tuesday when someone she
knew stopped by the house to pick up a few items, Sgt. Sherman Hall said.
The daughter, who is 65 and whose father died in 2008, had been clean-ing out the shed in the backyard in
preparation for selling the home when she found two skulls and bones, Hall said. She put the bones in a bucket and placed them in the backyard, which is where the friend saw them, he said.
When the friend saw the bones, she thought it was odd and called police to report that she had seen body parts in a
Skulls, bones found in backyard
Local kids camped with suspect Employee of Walden West camp charged with molestation, porn
[See THE UPDATE, page 4]
Recycled water for saleStartup bringsH2O to homes
HOME DELIVERY — Max Rattner sprays recycled water on the lawn of a Raindance customer. Photo from Raindance’s Facebook page. [See WATER, page 38]
[See SKULLS, page 38]
Man kept them in a shed for many years
[See CAMPED, page 38]
[See TRIAL, page 38]