SF News Pressure Mounts To Remove UC Berkeley Chancellor Ahead Of Planned Resignation UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks is on his way out — of that there is no doubt. The only question that remains is the timing of his departure, but the Chronicle reports that some
SF News UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks Announces He Will Resign Just as students pour back onto campus, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, who recently had said he hoped to serve for another ten years, has announced he will resign, though not until the
SF News Man Leads Police On Three-Hour Low-Speed Pursuit Around The Bay Tires worn down to rims, acrid smell of burning rubber in air. Suspect in custody. pic.twitter.com/N6CdnETsCF— Tiffany Wilson (@TWilsonTV) August 10, 2016 A man is in custody today after leading
SF News Man Seen With Rifle Menacing I-80 In Berkeley Prompts Major, Fruitless Manhunt At least two seemingly credible witnesses reported seeing a man Tuesday afternoon walking on the pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80 at University Avenue in Berkeley carrying a long gun, prompting a massive, hours-long
SF News Berkeley Student Nicolas Leslie Confirmed Dead In Nice Attack On July 14, Nicolas Leslie, a 20-year-old UC Berkeley environment studies major studying French in Nice, sent a video of himself dancing at Bastille Day celebrations to his friend Mustapha Khokhar according to
SF News Three Berkeley Students Attending Conference Injured In Nice Attack, One Missing Following yesterday's devastating mass killings in Nice, France, UC Berkeley reports that several students were injured and one is missing in the attack. That act of violence, carried out with a truck during
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Who Stepped Down For Sexual Harassment Kept $343K Salary A former UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor who was forced out of that position after he sexually harassed an Assistant Vice Chancellor appears to have received a record number of golden parachutes. I say
Arts & Entertainment [Video] Paul Simon Informs Berkeley Audience Of Muhammad Ali's Death While Playing 'The Boxer' At the Greek Theatre Friday night, Paul Simon paused during verses of "The Boxer" to deliver the news. Muhammad Ali had died. This is at 3:50 in the above video. As Rolling
Arts & Entertainment Video: CHP Again Chasing Animals On A Freeway, This Time Really, Really Slowly Remember how CHP officers last month valiantly cleared the Bay Bridge for one swiftly escaping Chihuahua named Ponch? Well, they had a similar operation to undertake Sunday morning on I-80 in Berkeley, although
SF News Day Around The Bay: Home Of Berkeley Chancellor Gets $700K Fence To Ward Off Protesters Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. On June 29th, about 30 SF publications are going
SF News Armed Trio Allegedly Behind Bar And Restaurant Robbery Spree Arrested Three men arrested last Friday stand accused of terrorizing the Bay Area with a string of 23 separate armed robberies of bars and restaurants. Police have yet to confirm if they believe that
Arts & Entertainment Shotgun Players' <i>Hamlet</i> (With Roulette Casting) Is A Meta Dive Into Shakespeare's Most Lyrical Tragedy If I describe to you the premise of Berkeley-based Shotgun Players' new season-opening production of Hamlet, you're likely going to write it off as some sort of stunt, and the Shakespeare purists might
SF News Video: Berkeley Man Unloads Pistol At Homeless Man Surveillance video released yesterday by the Berkeley Police Department depicts a terrifying scene: A man casually standing around a well-lit gas station before pulling a gun out of his pants and firing what
SF News Student Kicked Off Flight For Speaking Arabic Is Berkeley Senior, Iraqi Refugee Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, whom the Daily Californian reports is a 26-year-old Berkeley student in his senior year, had just boarded Southwest flight 4260 from Los Angeles to Oakland on April 6, planning to return
SF News Key Witness Takes Stand In Trial Of Man Accused In 2013 Killing Of 8-Year-Old Girl In Oakland A major murder trial is ongoing in Alameda County in the case of Darnell Williams Jr., 25, who stands accused of the fatal shooting of eight-year-old Alaysha Carradine in East Oakland in 2013
SF News UC Berkeley Basketball Coach Accused Of Harassment Ends Appeal, Submits Resignation Just a day after we learned that some 19 UC Berkeley employees have been accused of sexual harassment in recent years, with seven of them losing their jobs in the process, embattled assistant
Arts & Entertainment Rare Desert Plant Blooms For First Time In 50 Years In East Bay Botanical Garden A rare giant nolina, a desert plant native to California's eastern Mojave Desert, has just bloomed for the first time since it was planted in Berkeley's Tilden Park, at the Regional Parks Botanic
SF News Racist Hacker Forced UC Berkeley Printers To Print Swastikas UC Berkeley, along with other colleges across the country, was on the receiving end of notoriously racist hacker Weev's malicious boredom last week. Weev, whose real name is Andrew Auernheimer, forced a hoard
SF News Police Seek Witnesses As Multiple Animals Shot In Berkeley Five animals have been shot recently in Berkeley, and police are asking for witnesses to come forward with any information that might help them find the culprit. So reports KRON 4, which notes
SF News Day Around The Bay: No Criminal Charges In Berkeley Balcony Crash Follow SFist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you — sign up here. Remember the sad case of the Berkeley balcony collapse that resulted
Arts & Entertainment Ani DiFranco Announces October Shows In Berkeley And SF Though she tours at a somewhat less brisk pace than she used to and has been raising two kids in recent years, 90s-famous singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco is back on the road again this
SF News Police: Serial Rapist Probably Lives Near UC Berkeley Campus In a frightening update to the unsolved case of the serial rapist assaulting college-age women near the UC Berkeley Campus, police now say that the suspect likely lives close to the site of
SF News Fourth Woman Sexually Assaulted In String Of Berkeley Attacks A woman was sexually assaulted near the Berkeley campus over the weekend. The latest attack, which police believe to be at least the fourth committed by the same suspect, occurred early Saturday morning
SF News San Francisco Soda Tax Likely Headed Back To Ballot The popular but ultimately failed San Francisco soda tax may be bubbling back up. A petition calling for the addition of such a tax to the 2016 November ballot is circulating and appears
SF News Video: Berkeley Sexual Assault Suspect Flees Scene Of Third Attack Berkeley police are investigating the third case of sexual assault in under a week to take place near People's Park. Investigators believe the three cases are related, and have released video depicting a
