UC Berkeley found itself at the center of national media attention Monday night following a bizarre series of events that culminated with an explosion near California Hall and the swift evacuation of campus. Read More…
A Clark Kerr Campus resident director reported an incident of hateful, homophobic vandalism inside a unisex bathroom last week, making it at least the second hate-related incident to transpire in the UC Berkeley campus community this month. Read More…
A new survey has been sent out to Berkeley residents, asking for their opinions about Berkeley police officers carrying tasers. Read More…
About 15 demonstrators staged a mock military checkpoint by Sather Gate Monday afternoon in protest of Israeli soldiers’ presence on a main West Bank city thoroughfare. The checkpoint, which was in place around 1 p.m. for about half an hour, was part of a larger series of demonstrations to raise Read More…
Twenty-nine iPads, an electronic tablet and a set of headphones were reported stolen from the Lawrence Hall of Science Monday. Read More…
A string of eight auto burglaries took place in quick succession Wednesday morning between the Strawberry Canyon parking lot and the Lawrence Hall of Science. The burglaries each involved smashed car windows and took place between 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. in several parking lots along Centennial Drive, which stretches between Memorial Stadium Read More…
UCPD discovered a dead body Friday in Manville Apartments on Southside, though the cause of death is currently unknown. According to UCPD Lt. Marc DeCoulode, police discovered the 31-year-old UC Berkeley graduate student — who the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau identified as Vadim Karagodsky — dead in his Read More…
A Unit 3 suite was burglarized early Thursday morning after its resident left a sliding glass door leading to the patio unlocked. The victim told UCPD police he left his Unit 3 Ida Sproul ground floor suite at about 6:15 a.m. and suspects that he left the sliding glass door Read More…
Two men were arrested on felony charges during a protest at Tolman Hall on Thursday night and several people were injured, following a sporadically violent daylong demonstration against proposed student fee increases. The men, Drew Phillips, 25, and Richard Clemons, 30 were arrested on felony charges Thursday night. Neither are UC Berkeley students. Read More…
The UCPD bomb squad was called into Novato Tuesday to transport a rocket launcher after an unlicensed teenager was found driving with the device in his car. At about 9:40 a.m., a traffic officer stopped the 15-year-old in a blue Dodge Durango and noticed the launcher in the vehicle’s back Read More…