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An AC Transit bus collided with and sheared off the top of a fire hydrant Wednesday afternoon near the Downtown Berkeley BART station, flooding the streets with water.
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A cyclist died shortly after colliding with a dump truck Friday afternoon near the intersection of Bancroft Way and Fulton Street.
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A man was wounded in a drive-by shooting in South Berkeley Saturday afternoon. Witnesses say they heard gunshots around 2:30 p.m. in the area arounf California Street and Ashby Avenue from an unidentified blue four-door vehicle, according to Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Mary Kusmiss. Kusmiss said police believe the
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Berkeley Police Department and UCPD officers reported they will be taking precautions and advised Berkeley residents to do the same following an increase in smash-and-grab auto burglaries in the last month in the city and the areas surrounding campus. Three auto burglaries were reported in the Witter Field parking lot
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The preliminary hearing of a man charged with the March 29 killing of Devin Whitmire will begin Tuesday morning at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland. Calvester Stewart, 19, was first charged May 8 with the alleged March 29 murder of Devin Whitmire, 24. According to Berkeley Police Department
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The driver who was involved in a vehicle collision with a tree last week that left one woman dead and a child in the hospital with serious injuries has been charged with vehicular manslaughter while driving drunk. Jose Lumbreras, 24, was driving a Cadillac in which Milanca Lopez, 22, and
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Berkeley Police Department Chief Michael Meehan used the department’s police forces and assistance to search for his son’s stolen cellphone, according to a department statement released Monday. Meehan’s son’s iPhone was reportedly stolen at Berkeley High School in January, but a report was not immediately written up following the incident.
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Berkeley Police Department announced it will be audited by a communications company in a department effort to curtail criticism regarding its media policies, following a March incident when a department spokesperson was ordered to a Bay Area reporter’s home in the middle of the night to ask for changes in
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A vehicle collision with a tree in central Berkeley early Friday morning left one woman dead and two other occupants in the hospital with serious injuries. At about 1:13 a.m. Berkeley Police Department patrol officers responded to California Street, just north of Allston Way, where a Cadillac had struck a
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A Berkeley man charged with the 2006 shooting of a former Berkeley High School student was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday by the Alameda County Superior Court. Bahsson Carl Smith, now 31, was found guilty of the murder — with personal and intentional discharge of a firearm — of Keith Stephens, who
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