Tom Turman has been living on 9th Street in West Berkeley for well over 30 years and has loved everything about the neighborhood except one thing — the house next door. For the past three decades, the residents of 1722 9th Street have allegedly subjected Turman to verbal insults, screaming Read More…
The Daily Californian reached out to professors for advice they had to offer to graduating seniors. The following is a collection of responses. Professors who responded: Robert Beatty, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology Robert Birgeneau, Chancellor Robin Einhorn, Professor of History Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy Richard Muller, Professor of Read More…
A bomb threat on Northside kept residents from their homes Wednesday night. Berkeley Police Department officers on scene blocked off parts of Euclid Avenue, Ridge Road, La Loma Avenue, Le Roy Avenue and Le Conte Avenue. Residents were being allowed to leave the affected area, but no one was permitted Read More…
An arraignment for the main suspect in a shooting involving police earlier this month was postponed Monday. Calvester Stewart is being held without bail on suspicion of attempted murder following an incident April 13 in which Stewart allegedly opened fire on police officers while fleeing from them. Although Stewart’s arraignment Read More…
A Lawrence Berkeley National Lab fellow is missing following a fatal yacht crash off the coast of San Francisco last weekend. Shortly before 3 p.m. on Saturday, Elmer Morrissey was with three other people on a yacht that crashed near the Farallon Islands. After 30 hours of searching, the Coast Read More…
The UCPD bomb squad aided another department in responding to explosive devices found near a Fairfax middle school Sunday. The bomb squad was consulted to determine the nature of four homemade explosive devices found on White Hill Middle School’s baseball field as well as the best way to deactivate the Read More…
The man charged in the city of Berkeley’s third homicide of the year pleaded not guilty in court Monday. Berkeley resident Randall Alston pleaded not guilty to one charge of felony murder at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland for the March 29 fatal shooting of 24-year-old Devin Whitmire Read More…
SAN FRANCISCO – A future endorsement of Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax initiative, police involvement in campus protests and housing debt at UC Berkeley were discussed during public sessions of Wednesday’s UC Board of Regents meeting. During the Wednesday meeting — the second of board meetings held at UC San Francisco’s Read More…
The UC Board of Regents’ Committee on Health Services discussed on Tuesday the ongoing issue of how the university aims to decrease the cost of services while increasing the quality of patient care. On the first day of the board’s three-day meeting at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus, the Read More…
The man who was pepper-sprayed and struck with a baton in a UC Berkeley dormitory after allegedly fighting with police pled not guilty in county court Monday. According to county court documents, 39-year-old Albert Haedinger was charged with battery with injury on a peace officer, removal of a peace officer’s weapon and Read More…