Morning News Round-Up -- 9.2.09: Some stories just won't go away...

Some reoccurring stories to start...

Foster City Council members went with the more unpopular site to build a new school – the vacant 3.9-acre plot at Beach Park Boulevard and Halibut Street overlooking the Bay as a potential site for the District to build a school. At least there is a Bay view. The saga continues?

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East Palo Alto's biggest landlord suffered a legal blow when a San Mateo County judge granted an injunction barring it from raising rents at its properties. Sorry Page Mill Properties, it was fun while it lasted...

Protests did the job, or at least part of it... Officials are laying off only 28 San Mateo County Superior Court employees instead of the 60 as originally planned.

SFO is now Earth-friendly. You can board planes using your cell phones now. Cool.

Burlingame Police toot their own horns…

A Menlo Park man and two other American men accused of traveling to Cambodia to have sex with children will face Federal charges in the United States. What happens in Cambodia comes back to haunt you on the Peninsula.

A Woodside homeowner is having a 10,500-square foot ground-mounted solar array installed on a secluded meadow to cover all his electricity needs. Only in Woodside.

Another San Mateo County school hits the jackpot. This time in Portola Valley...

Two-time convicted child molester Chester Miller has been sentenced on Tuesday morning to four years in state prison for neglecting to register as a sex offender for years while living in Montara. Now we know where the phrase Chester the Molester comes from, we thought it just was a neat rhyme, it turns out to be true...

The former president of a parents association at a Redwood City elementary school has been sentenced to a year in jail for stealing from fundraisers, including one that offered children the chance to have their pictures taken with Santa Claus. That should be a difficult year in prison.

A Baby Boomer favorite, Millbrae’s Shaw’s Candy and Ice Cream is closing its doors due to leasing issues.