On the night of Mothership HackerMoms’ Halloween party, the entrance to the hackerspace on Adeline Street is blocked by a handmade wooden gate. A repurposed shipping pallet, complete with added hinges and metal pull-handles, serves as a barrier to stop the half-dozen young children there to participate in Halloween crafts Read More…
Discontent residents of South Berkeley convened with city government officials Tuesday night to discuss the need for improvements in a neighborhood they call home. Read More…
A man was wounded in a drive-by shooting in South Berkeley Saturday afternoon. Witnesses say they heard gunshots around 2:30 p.m. in the area arounf California Street and Ashby Avenue from an unidentified blue four-door vehicle, according to Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Mary Kusmiss. Kusmiss said police believe the Read More…
A suspect allegedly involved in a police shooting last month has been charged with the March 29 killing of Devin Whitmire. The Berkeley Police Department announced Tuesday that Calvester Stewart, 19, has been charged with the alleged murder of Whitmire, 24. Whitmire was fatally shot on the night of March 29 at Read More…
Around this time in 2011, Berkeley saw its first and last homicide of the year. Less than four months into 2012, the city has already seen three homicides as well as multiple nonfatal shootings, alarming residents who live in neighborhoods struck by the violence. The city’s first homicide of 2012 Read More…
Berkeley police officers are investigating circumstances surrounding a shooting that occurred in South Berkeley Friday afternoon. At about 2:25 p.m., a group of men were standing in the parking lot of Stanford Liquors in the 3400 block of King Street, according to a statement from Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Read More…
Two fires broke out in Berkeley this weekend — one on Southside as a result of improperly discarded smoking materials and the other in South Berkeley, likely due to fireworks in the area. On the morning of July 2 at about 5:36 a.m., the Berkeley Fire Department received a call Read More…
When Berkeley police responded to reports of a shooting on the 1500 block of Fairview Street in South Berkeley Friday night, they found two men suffering from injuries sustained that night. At about 10 p.m., a group of young men were socializing in front of an apartment building on the Read More…
The 86-year-old Berkeley woman with dementia who wandered off from an assisted living facility in South Berkeley last night was located by police this morning in Oakland. At 9:35 a.m., a Berkeley Police Department officer spotted Mary Souza, 86, at Stanford and San Pablo avenues — just over the border Read More…
Berkeley police are searching for an 86-year-old Berkeley resident with dementia who was discovered missing from her South Berkeley assisted living facility sometime Thursday night. At about 8 p.m., a staff member from the facility located on the 2600 block of Shattuck Avenue called the Berkeley Police Department to report Read More…
