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Protesters facing charges from the campus demonstrations against budget cuts in March are scheduled to begin legal proceedings tomorrow in Oakland. According to court documents, the 21 protesters are scheduled to have a hearing at the Wiley W. Manuel courthouse at 2:00 p.m. Monday. Fourteen of the protesters face misdemeanor
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Twice as many UC Berkeley students were rushed to the hospital for alcohol intoxication in the first few weeks of the semester this year than last year, according to UCPD statistics. Between move-in weekend and Labor Day weekend last year, UCPD officers responded to seven alcohol-related casualty calls — instances
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The Berkeley Police Review Commission voted at a meeting Wednesday night to close a policy complaint raised earlier this year regarding police use of force and crowd control tactics at the protests on the UC Berkeley campus in March. The complaint — brought March 17 by Copwatch member Andrea Prichett
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Berkeley police say they have solved last week’s massive tire-puncturing incident and determined the crime was committed by a single person. Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan said at a city Police Review Commission meeting Wednesday night that the investigation has “led us to a single person” and that the department
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The People’s Park tree-sit that began just over a week ago came to an end early Tuesday morning after one of the protesters fell out of the tree and had to be rushed to the hospital. A 19-year-old female fell out of the tree at about 4 a.m, sustaining major
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Preliminary statistics indicate an overall decrease in violent and property crime in Berkeley during the first six months of 2011 compared to the same time period the previous year — a trend mirrored in surrounding cities. The Berkeley Police Department recorded 4 percent fewer Part One Violent Crimes — which
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A coalition of law enforcement personnel, crime victim advocates and exonerated ex-criminals announced a ballot initiative Friday that would replace the California death penalty with life in prison without parole. After the death penalty bill proposed by State Senator Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, was withdrawn Thursday because it did not have
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Seven months after a People’s Park tree-sitter was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the park has once again become home to a tree-sit, this time in response to what the tree-sitter called an urgent situation for Berkeley’s homeless people. A sometimes Berkeley resident who goes by the name of
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The California Supreme Court unanimously upheld the death penalty Thursday for a Berkeley man convicted of murder over 10 years ago. After being found guilty of fatally shooting his nephew and sister in 1995 in their Berkeley home, Erven Blacksher was sentenced to death in 1999 by the Alameda County
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A man was robbed of his cell phone late Wednesday night on the threat of a gun on Southside. At about 10:50 p.m., the victim, whose affiliation with UC Berkeley is unknown, was walking along the 2700 block of Dwight Way near Unit 2 when he was approached by two
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