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City Councilmember Jesse Arreguin led a Berkeley Task Force on Homelessness meeting Thursday evening to bring the community together to address homelessness in Berkeley. About 50 people gathered at the YMCA Teen Center to attend the task force’s first meeting, a community conversational process that anyone can join and participate
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The former UC Davis police lieutenant who pepper-sprayed student protesters during a November 2011 Occupy demonstration has filed a claim for workers’ compensation after being fired from the UC Davis Police Department in July 2012. Lt. John Pike filed for workers’ compensation from his former employer, UC Davis, on June
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Engineers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have taken the latest step toward making that happen, by developing a thin, pliable, plastic material called “e-skin”, that is interactive like a touchscreen, but more flexible than the rigid glass or silicon currently used in smartphones and computers.
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A man was killed in an apparent hit and run Monday morning in the Westbound lane of the University Ave freeway overpass.
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Thuy Vu, a UC Berkeley alumna, former Daily Californian writer, and acclaimed journalist will be the host of a new Friday evenings news program, “KQED Newsroom,” which premieres this October.
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About 15 protesters gathered at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue on Monday in support of a hunger strike by Pelican Bay State Prison inmates in solitary confinement. In February, prisoners at Pelican Bay announced that on July 8, they would resume their ongoing hunger strike protesting the solitary confinement conditions
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An armed robbery took place Friday morning at the intersection of Dwight Way and Warring Street. According to a UCPD crime alert released Friday, the two victims, a 21-year-old male and a 21-year-old female whose affiliations are unknown, were walking in the area of the intersection at approximately 2:15 a.m.
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Thirteen women and three organizations were honored for furthering the involvement of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, known collectively as STEM fields, by state Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, on Thursday. The honorees of the 15th Assembly District’s annual Women of the Year Award ceremony were all proponents
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When Governor Jerry Brown signed the state budget Thursday he vetoed provisions that he proposed in January for online courses in the higher education item that would have mandated the UC to spend $10 million on online course development.
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UPDATE, Wednesday: Berkeley City Council voted to deny the appeal allowing the new apartment project to move forward. Berkeley City Council will consider a zoning appeal at its meeting Tuesday to decide whether a proposed six-story apartment on the 2000 block of Durant Avenue near Shattuck Avenue will be built
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