SF News [UPDATES] Saturday Night's Berkeley Protest Ends In Tear Gas In the latest local protest in a national movement for police accountability in the killing of black Americans, over 400 protestors marched for five hours Saturday night along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Police
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Cell Phone Thief's Selfie Fail * A dumb dude who stole someone's iPhone in Stockton is apparently unaware of the whole cloud concept he's been shooting lots of selfies, which the owner of the stolen
SF News Anonymous Letter Alleges Third Sexual Assault at Berkeley Frat After two reports of sexual assault at UC Berkeley fraternities in as many months, a third attack has allegedly occurred, reports ABC 7. Campus police received an anonymous letter describing the alleged incident,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Longtime Berkeley Bar Spats, Shuttered For Five Years, May Reopen This Fall UC Berkeley alums and longtime Berkeley residents know the legend of Spats, the dusty but homey Shattuck Avenue bar (known as Oleg's back in the 70s), which has always been a
SF News 'Watch This' Said Berkeley Bus Rider Before Randomly Stabbing Woman A 25-year-old skateboarder is being applauded by Berkeley Police after intervening during a terrifying random stabbing on an AC Transit bus. According to a press release sent by Berkeley Police, at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-Paleo Restaurant Coming To Berkeley Later This Summer A couple of Paleo Diet-loving caterers, Yrmis Barroeta and Bobby Chang, are opening their first restaurant in Berkeley in September, and it will serve those "bulletproof" lattes with butter in
SF News Oakland Home Sales Prices Growing Far Faster Than San Francisco's While the median home sales price for the city of Oakland is far lower than many of its neighboring areas, it might not be that way for long: an analysis of MLS data
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
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&
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