Central Berkeley residents raise concerns over traffic safety

Residents of the western part of the MLK neighborhood in central Berkeley voiced their concerns on traffic and pedestrian safety during a community meeting Thursday. Read More…

Residents of the western part of the MLK neighborhood in central Berkeley voiced their concerns on traffic and pedestrian safety during a community meeting Thursday. Read More…
Jose Lumbreras, 25, faces 12 years in prison for killing 22-year-old Berkeley graduate Milanca Lopez and her 6-year-old son Xavier Chevez. Read More…
Amended criminal charges were filed Wednesday against UC Berkeley graduate student Jose Lumbreras, who crashed his vehicle in Berkeley nearly two weeks ago, leaving two people dead. According to police, Lumbreras’ blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit when the car he was driving car crashed into a tree Read More…
The six-year-old son of deceased UC Berkeley alumna Milanca Lopez died Friday evening, one week after the car accident that killed his mother. Xavier Chevez had been on life support with minor brain function since the accident, in which the car he and his mother were passengers in hit a Read More…
Milanca Alicia Lopez, 22, a 2012 UC Berkeley graduate, died in a car accident Friday morning in Berkeley. According to Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, the fatal crash was reported to Berkeley Police Department at 1:13 a.m. Officers responded to the scene at California Street, just north of Read More…
The driver who was involved in a vehicle collision with a tree last week that left one woman dead and a child in the hospital with serious injuries has been charged with vehicular manslaughter while driving drunk. Jose Lumbreras, 24, was driving a Cadillac in which Milanca Lopez, 22, and Read More…