SF News Crash-And-Grab Thief Turns Berkeley Apple Store Into A Drive-Thru #apple customers being turned away on 4th st in #Berkeley after Pontiac slams into store-- BPD says items stolen pic.twitter.com/xnBQlqze2n— Mike Mibach KTVU (@MibachKTVU) May 9, 2014 Friday morning around
SF News Berkeley Police: 'We Are Not A Violent Department, OK?' Some of Berkeley's famously passive (and passive-aggressive) residents are up in arms over a proposal from the Berkeley Police Department to look into equipping their police force with Tasers. Where SFPD explored the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-N-Out Hoax Sends Berkeley Into Spiral Of Irrevocable Despair Coming soon! #InandOutTelegraph pic.twitter.com/IuoAvTP6Fs— Cal Ticket Office (@CalAthletix) April 28, 2014 Someone whose evil knows no bounds — think Satan or the creator of Diet Pepsi, only worse — played a horrific
SF News Hatchet Crime: Berkeley Couple Charged With Murder Of Former Bandit 28-year-old Michael Diggs and his 40-year-old girlfriend Kneitawnye Sessoms were charged with murder in Alameda Superior Court Thursday for allegedly killing a 54-year-old former bandit known as the "Noteman" in his home with
SF News Oakland Mulling Law To Protect Cyclists From Aggressive Drivers Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles and Berkeley, the Oakland City Council's public safety committee last night considered a new law that would give cyclists recourse to sue following incidents of road
SF News Person Struck, Killed By Freight Train In Berkeley This Morning An unidentified man was struck and killed by a southbound freight train crossing into Berkeley from Albany this morning just after 9 a.m. The accident happened in an area not near a
SF News Squirrel Scandal Rocks Berkeley's City Council The city of Berkeley is wrapped up in a very Berkeley-esque mixup after a plan to eradicate the ground squirrels and gophers at Cesar Chavez Park was met with an outpouring of backlash.
SF News Family Members Of Measles-Infected BART Rider Fall Ill Remember all the frustration you expressed over the possibly nonvaccinating family of BART/UC Berkeley's Measles Patient Zero? Well, it looks like you might have been proven right, as Contra Costa County health
SF News Have You Seen This Violent Sex Offender? Police are asking help finding Kevin Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender, who violently assaulted a female and police officer in Montana. Briggs was seen in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland
SF News Cal Student Allegedly Gay Bashes, Robs Other Student A UC Berkeley student accused of making homophobic remarks before beating and robbing a classmate may face hate crime charges for the assault, according to a crime report posted by the schools police
SF News Protesters Blockade Single Google Employee's Commute In Berkeley In a further muddying of the anti-gentrification, anti-eviction message surrounding local blockades of corporate shuttles, a group of protesters yesterday descended on the Berkeley home of a single Google X developer, and "chose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jamie Oliver Drops In On Alice Waters In Berkeley Arguably Britain's biggest celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, who's made it a crusade of his both in England and in the U.S. to encourage healthier eating for school kids, paid a visit Monday
SF News Berkeley Yoga Burglar Finally Brought To Downward-Facing Justice Berkeley's thriving yoga community can ujjayi a little easier today: a man who cops say was responsible for a string of burglaries at four yoga studios, a capoeira gym, and a restaurant in
SF News Berkeley Neighbors Upset Over Micro-Apartment Development You think it's difficult to build things in San Francisco? You should get a load of Berkeley sometime. A developer is trying to build a five-story, 67-unit building on Shattuck Avenue near Derby,
SF News Meth-Addled Driver Strikes Three Blind People In Berkeley A woman who was later arrested both for DUI and meth possession struck three blind people on Thursday afternoon in the street in downtown Berkeley. The woman, identified as 53-year-old Sherri Carbone-Cruz, struck
SF News Overnight Mini Earthquake, Four Aftershocks Strike Berkeley A tiny temblor that registered a 3.2 magnitude struck Berkeley at 1:07 a.m. last night, disturbing most light sleepers and perhaps confusing those who were still awake marathoning House of
SF News UC Berkeley Nobel Prize Winner Humblebrags Win On Facebook It's nice to know that even Nobel Prize winners are prone to the occasional humblebrag, superpower smarts and all. Shortly after winning the 2013 prize for medicine on Monday, UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman
SF News Did You Feel It? 3.1 Quake Gently Rocks Bay Area Sunday Night. According to the US. Geological Survey and several Twitter updates, an earthquake rattled the Bay Area Sunday night at 9:26 pm. The minor tremor, according to SF Appeal, "had a magnitude of
SF News UC Berkeley Campus Evacuated After Explosion [Updated] UC Berkeley is being evacuated after an underground fire. pic.twitter.com/XDeuSiI52K— Joe Vazquez (@joenewsman) October 1, 2013 A power outage at UC Berkeley prefaced a major explosion on Monday night, resulting
SF News Berkeley High Pool Shut Down After Water Polo Players Lose Body Hair Yikes. The City of Berkeley is shutting down the pool at Berkeley High School after some water polo players began reporting some strange symptoms likely connected with the chemical levels in the pool,
Arts & Entertainment Audience Member At 'No Man's Land' Passes Out, Refuses To Go To Hospital Until He Sees The End An 80-year-old man who attended opening night of No Man's Land at Berkeley Rep on Sunday reportedly passed out with about 30 minutes left in the second act of the play. He was
SF News Man Killed In Berkeley Hit and Run The University Avenue overpass near Interstate 80 in Berkeley was the site of a fatal early morning hit and run accident. At 5:10 a.m. this morning, a police officer encountered the
SF News Bart Strike: Scenes From A Public Transit Meltdown Today's BART strike, announced at midnight, snarled traffic and forced denizens into finding alternate routes. Trains were packed, buses, jammed, and lines grew long. Here are some images from today's BART meltdown. Unless
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Comal Owners Expanding With Second Berkeley Restaurant Comal, the upscaled Mexican concept in downtown Berkeley that's been wildly well received in its first year, is going to get a sister restaurant soon in Berkeley's Elmwood neighborhood. The team of John
SF News Boy Sexually Assaulted In Bathroom At Berkeley Marina Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old boy inside the Adventure Playground bathroom at 160 University Aveune on Tuesday. At around 1 pm, a the victim told his mother
