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Demonstrators gathered at the intersection of Dwight Way and Telegraph Avenue Monday to raise awareness of traffic and pedestrian danger they said the spot is notorious for. About 10 community members and local government officials — including Councilmembers Kriss Worthington and Jesse Arreguin — met at around noon near the southwest
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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
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Police used pepper spray against protesters at Thursday’s protest outside of Tolman Hall. UCPD Lt. Marc DeCoulode said during the course of an entrance attempt at the hall, a number of protesters tried to pin officers, and one protester grabbed a magazine clip off of an officer’s gun belt, leading
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iPhones have won out over Google phones for robbers in Berkeley, according to the Berkeley Police Department. Sarah Burns is the lead crime reporter. Correction(s):A previous edition of this post incorrectly labeled iPhone robberies as thefts.
As 11 protesters charged in relation to the March 2 Wheeler Hall sit-in close the book on their charges, the legal consequences of that demonstration stand in contrast to the aftermath of the November 2009 occupation of the same building. Seventeen protesters were arrested on March 2 after they refused
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Six of the March 2 UC Berkeley Wheeler Hall sit-in protesters were found not guilty of disturbing the peace in a ruling issued Tuesday in Oakland. The decision resulted from a bench trial presided over by Judge Gordon Baranco at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland. The protesters —
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The legal fate of twelve of the arrested protesters from the March budget cut demonstrations have been decided by plea agreements as of Monday. Four of the 17 protesters arrested March 2 in connection with the Wheeler Hall sit-in pleaded no contest Sept. 14 at the Wiley W. Manual Courthouse
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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
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An Oakland man was convicted Monday of murdering two men in a 2008 gang-related shooting in South Berkeley and could face life in prison without parole, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. According to the Bay City News, Desmen Lankford, 27, shot Kevin Parker, 42, of Oakland and Kelvin Davis,
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Seven protesters from the March 3 ledge sit pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge for disturbing the peace Monday at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland. Per an agreement between the district attorney’s office and defense counsel, the charge will be converted into an infraction if protesters complete
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