Top Stories for Saturday, November 22nd, 2008:





 BY JOSH DUBOW

 ASSOCIATED PRESS
  Toby Gerhart has grown so accus­tomed to walking by The Axe every day in Stanford’s football offices that he doesn’t want to go back to the old days when there was only a picture of the prize that goes to the wi ...




 BY WILL OREMUS

 DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
  Stanford University has a plan to pro­tect its foothills from new development through at least 2035, but some critics are irked that it won’t commit to more perma­nent growth limits.
  The university ...




 BY JOSHUA MELVIN

 DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
  Eureka! They found a name for it.
  The first airship in more than 70 years stationed at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View will be called — Eureka.
  That name was selected at the en ...




 BY JASON GREEN

 DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
  Awoman was found shot to death Friday evening in East Palo Alto, police reported.
  The body was discovered at about 8:40 p.m. near the intersection of Hunter Street and Purdue Avenue, said police Capt. Carl ...




 BY WILL OREMUS

 DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
  For the first time, Santa Clara County has approved putting to use some money accumulated in Stanford University’s af­fordable housing fund. The money will go toward two projects for low-income senior citizens ...