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Mail carrier LaMonte Earnest faces a misdemeanor charge after a Jan. 26 incident in which he allegedly unlawfully entered and remained in a residence on Sacramento Street, as first reported by Berkeleyside.
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UCPD made an arrest Friday in connection with an incident that occurred Feb. 19 on the UC Berkeley campus, in which a man tabling for the conservative organization Turning Point USA was assaulted on Upper Sproul Plaza.
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Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday that mandates a statewide audit of all untested sexual assault evidence kits, commonly referred to as “rape kits.” Yet on the same day, he vetoed another bill that passed unanimously through the state Senate and Assembly, and would have mandated that rape kits be processed within 120 days.
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A former UC Berkeley law student filed a federal complaint Friday, suing the UC Board of Regents to get her degree.
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Chapman was arrested in Oakland on suspicion of assaulting a man during a bar fight in Texas last year, as first reported by East Bay Express.
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Ability to Pay allows citizens who receive public benefits and have a monthly disposable income of less than $400 to receive reduced fines.
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“We filed the lawsuit simply in an effort to get Berkeley Bowl to come to the table … to make them negotiate a new lease,” said Jesse Boyd, Metalco’s attorney.
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Alameda County Superior Court Judge Tara Flanagan, who is also one of two judges in the county who openly identifies as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, is the only one of 24 judges up for re-election who has drawn an opponent.
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More than a year after the deadly “Ghost Ship” warehouse fire, defendants Derick Almena and Max Harris — each charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter — plead not guilty at a hearing Tuesday morning.
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Ismael Chamu and Peter Estrada, two UC Berkeley students arrested last week on charges of vandalism, were arraigned at the Wiley M. Manuel Courthouse Monday afternoon on charges of alleged felony vandalism more than $400 and misdemeanor possession of tools to commit vandalism.
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