Suspected car-to-car shooting occurs in Southwest Berkeley
A car to car shooting occurred at 7th Street and Potter Street Wednesday night around 8:53 p.m. Read More…
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Berkeley Lab researchers release new findings on breast cancer relapse
Recent findings from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reveal one of the causes of why some breast cancer patients relapse years after treatment. Read More…
Residence halls found to be below UC safety standards
A recent inspection into the seismic safety of Units 1, 2 and 3 in April found four highrise buildings in each residence hall complex to be below standards held by the University of California. Read More…
Berkeley City Council postpones voting on Berkeley Election Reform Act amendment
Berkeley City Council considered an amendment to the municipal code on Tuesday that would require election campaigns to file financial disclosure forms electronically. Read More…
Minor sexually assaulted at Berkeley Marina
A 6-year-old boy was sexually assaulted at the Berkeley Marina Tuesday afternoon, launching a massive search for the suspect. According to police reports, the boy was touched by an adult male in the Shorebird Park bathroom near Adventure Playground. The child’s mother reported the incident to the police at about Read More…
Former campus graduate student sentenced to 6 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter
Former UC Berkeley graduate student Jose Lumbreras was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday for the vehicular manslaughter of his 22-year-old girlfriend, Milanca Lopez, and her 6-year-old son, Xavier Chevez. Lumbreras was charged with two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, resulting in a six-year sentence with Read More…
Deaths of stolen chickens suggest foul play
Two farm chickens were found dead Tuesday after being stolen from the Rosa Parks Elementary School gardening program on June 1. Read More…
Berkeley joins global alliance to create genomic database
UC Berkeley has joined a global alliance of premier medical, research and disease prevention organizations that aims to create an international database of shared genomic and clinical data. Read More…
UC Berkeley professor develops new operating system
UC Berkeley professor John Kubiatowicz presented a new operating system called Tessellation at the Design Automation Conference in Texas on Wednesday. Read More…
AC Transit considers proposal to cut popular F line bus route
AC Transit will consider replacing its popular F line — which connects Berkeley to Emeryville, Oakland and San Francisco — at a board of directors meeting Wednesday. Read More…