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On the top of his buzzed head, Kenya Wheeler has a thin, almost unnoticeable line where his hair does not grow — a surgical scar that reminds him that he, as a brain cancer survivor, will always have to live with the fear of relapse. For the last seven months,
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The following is a sample of crime in Berkeley this week, provided by the Berkeley Police Department. Residential Burglary/Stolen Auto — 30 block of Fairlawn Drive On April 15, between 1:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., an unknown suspect or suspects pried a sliding door off its tracks and burglarized a home in the
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UCPD’s bomb squad responded to a call Thursday about a “suspicious package” that arrived at an office in Mill Valley, though the threat was later deemed a false alarm. The Resource Renewal Institute on East Blithedale Avenue, which received the delivery Thursday, said the package was actually a forgotten purchase
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A local high school student and demonstrators held a sparsely attended press conference in front of Sproul Hall Sunday against UC Berkeley admissions, which they claim discriminate against qualified underrepresented minority students. Berkeley High School senior Aillen Zazueta-Bella, who received a rejection letter from the campus, said she belongs at
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Thursday’s preliminary hearing for UC Berkeley associate professor of English Celeste Langan, who has been issued criminal charges for her involvement in the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protest, was postponed until next month. The newly scheduled May 4 date will be almost six months after Langan’s initial arrest at the
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Last week, 48 teachers in the Berkeley Unified School District received pink slips, signifying that another wave of staff layoffs could be on its way in the upcoming months. In light of the cuts to public education in Gov. Jerry Brown’s preliminary budget released in January for the upcoming fiscal
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By the time UC Berkeley senior Ian Larson woke up his roommates on March 8, their living room was chest-high in smoke. Larson ran out of his burning apartment at around 4 a.m. barefoot and wearing only his pajamas. The three-story, six-unit apartment building at 2227 Dwight Way — which
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Candle lights flickered against the strong blow of the wind Monday night as a group of UC Berkeley students and Bay Area natives formed a circle on Upper Sproul Plaza in silent remembrance. The candlelight vigil, which was organized by the UC Berkeley Afghan Student Association, was one of many
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With its ornamental tower and spacious steps, Old City Hall has long held an impressive presence in the heart of Berkeley at 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. Despite the building’s humble grandeur, a plaque left of the entrance reminds visitors that “this building does not meet structural standards for
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Friends and family have reason to cheer for UC Berkeley freshman and men’s crew team member Andrew Crowley, who is making a slow but steady recovery after falling from a campus fraternity house a week and a half ago. Crowley is currently being treated at Highland General Hospital in Oakland
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