Anderson Lanham

Four men, two of whom were Berkeley residents, were arrested July 21 in connection with the fatal shooting of a man that took place earlier in July.

The Berkeley-based youth outreach program YEAH! was recently acquired by Covenant House California, combining the two agencies to make the largest shelter for homeless youth in the East Bay.

At a time when police violence and oversight has become the subject of ever-increasing controversy across the nation, many in Berkeley — and in the commission itself — feel that the Police Review Commission is unable to adequately address today’s foremost police issues.

DeSondra Ward, a UC Berkeley employee who pleaded guilty in February to embezzling more than $300,000 from the Lawrence Hall of Science, was sentenced to 18 months in jail Tuesday.

Pokemon Go, a mobile game released last week that combines the nostalgia of the '90s TV show with the cutting edge technology of augmented reality, was developed by a UC Berkeley graduate.

Stanley Mandelstam, a UC Berkeley physics professor emeritus remembered for his remarkable modesty despite his sizable contribution to the field of theoretical physics, died June 23. He was 87.

An email was sent to Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School principal Janet Levenson on Sunday threatening to harm the students unless teacher Yvette Felarca was fired.

UC Berkeley announced Tuesday the launch of a new crowdsourcing website intended to gather ideas on raising its revenue from the campus community.

The campus announced Wednesday that Associate Vice Chancellor for Admissions and Enrollment Anne De Luca has accepted a position at Harvard University and will be leaving UC Berkeley at the end of July.

Berkeley City Council met Tuesday to discuss two competing ballot initiatives to increase the minimum wage, one by City Council — which was motioned to be made into an ordinance instead of a ballot measure — and one by citizens of Berkeley — both of which were approved for the November ballot.