SF News 19-Year-Old UC Berkeley Student Dies After Frat Party Drowning Incident A 19-year-old Cal student who was found unresponsive after a near-drowning Friday night at a fraternity house has died from his injuries, but police are saying they do not suspect foul play.
SF News UC Berkeley Student In Critical Condition After Drowning at Fraternity House A student at University of California Berkeley is in critical condition after drowning at an off-campus fraternity house around 11:30 pm Friday night. A preliminary report says the incident took place in the fraternity’s swimming pool, which is still unconfirmed.
SF Politics Fistfight Kicks Off Charlie Kirk Tribute Event In Berkeley, Four People End Up Getting Arrested The Charlie Kirk traveling memorial show had its stop in Berkeley Monday night, and one guy hawking Jesus t-shirts got bloodied up in a lone fistfight, though it was otherwise a long night of garden-variety Berkeley rabble-rousing.
SF News Alleged Peeping Tom Charged With Trespassing and Burglary at UC Berkeley Sorority House A 45-year-old Dublin man is charged with peeping and loitering inside a UC Berkeley sorority house, as well as stealing residents’ underwear. Then a search of his home turned up an assault rifle and 900 rounds of ammunition.
SF Politics Charlie Kirk’s Memorial-Rally Road Show Coming to Berkeley on November 10 Slain conservative activist’s Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA traveling rally “American Comeback Tour” is coming to UC Berkeley in just one week, so the university is forced to reconsider security after Kirk’s assassination.
SF News UC Wins This Round Against Trump, Judge Reinstates $500 Million in Research Grants That Trump Yanked What started as some Trump claim that University of California colleges were antisemitic turned into a billion-dollar shakedown, but UC just won this fight (for now) as a judge ordered that $500 million in research grants be reinstated.
SF News UC Students and Administrators Sue Trump Administration Over So-Called ‘Antisemitism’ Purge While the UC system may be giving in on Trump’s attempt to turn the University of California into Trump U, students and faculty are taking up the fight, and have sued the administration to stop the university's defunding and blacklisting of activists.
SF News UC Berkeley Hands Feds List of 160 Allegedly ‘Anti-Semitic’ Students and Staff, in Total Capitulation to Trump After months of pressure from the Trump administration, UC Berkeley has handed the feds a list of 160 students and faculty accused of “anti-semitism,” with no detail on what merits this allegation, and it’s probably just Palestine protests.
SF News Four of Five Suspects Have Reportedly Already Pleaded Guilty in Shooting of UC Berkeley Professor in Greece The alleged "hired hit” murder of a UC Berkeley professor definitely looks to be a hired hit, with four of the five alleged collaborators having already reportedly pleaded guilty, but the man’s ex-wife insists she knew nothing of the scheme.
SF News Ex-Wife of Berkeley Professor Shot in Greece Arrested for Allegedly Arranging His Murder A wild turn of events in the story of a UC Berkeley professor who was shot execution-style in Greece on July 4, as his ex-wife has been arrested by Greek police on suspicion that she had his murder arranged.
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Fatally Shot by Masked Gunman in Broad Daylight While Visiting Kids in Greece A UC Berkeley professor was shot multiple times on July 4 in an Athens, Greece suburb by a masked gunman who reportedly fled in a waiting vehicle and remains at large. Authorities are investigating whether it was a targeted hit.
SF News Man Stabbed, Possibly By Angry Ex, at UC Berkeley Overlook Parking Lot A young man was stabbed multiple times in the parking lot of Lawrence Hall of Science in the Berkeley hills, on the UC Berkeley campus, but the individuals involved don't appear affiliated with the school.
SF News UC Berkeley Senior Paralyzed From Waist Down After Fall From Fraternity House Stairway A 12-foot fall from a local fraternity house has left a UC Berkeley senior paralyzed from the waist down and with a slew of other injuries, just three weeks before she was set to graduate.
SF News UC Berkeley and UCLA Both Face Trump Wrath Over Student Protests, Accused of Antisemitism The Trump Justice Department is attempting to use an accusation of tolerating an "antisemitic hostile work environment" for Jewish faculty and students to claw back hundreds of millions in federal funding promised to UC Berkeley and other schools.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Pleads Guilty to Firebombing UC Berkeley Police Car An activist who appeared to be going on a spree of arson and fire-bomb attacks on the UC Berkeley campus last summer in protest of the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian activists now faces prison time for terrorism.
Business & Tech UC Berkeley Chemists Announce Potentially Massive Discovery: A Powder That Captures Carbon From Air Chemists at UC Berkeley have just published details of a yearslong project to create a material that will effectively, sustainably remove carbon dioxide from the air, in what is potentially a major, Nobel-worthy breakthrough.
SF News Runt of Berkeley Falcon Brood Dies Three Months After Injuring Wing There's some sad news out of Berkeley, where the fourth of four young falcons hatched this spring atop the UC Berkeley Campanile tower has died following a July injury.
SF News UC Berkeley Student Wins $100k on ESPN's 'College Gameday' Daniel Villaseñor, a civil engineering student at UC Berkeley, won $100,000 on ESPN's College Gameday broadcast of Saturday's football game between the Cal Golden Bears and the University of Miami.
SF News 'Scholar-Activist' Indicted By Grand Jury for Arsons at UC Berkeley; Arson Attempt at Oakland Federal Building Comes to Light Casey Goonan, the 34-year-old self-described "scholar-activist" who was arrested last month in connection with a series of small arson fires on the UC Berkeley campus that appeared to be Gaza-related acts of protest, has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Arrested for UC Berkeley Arson Incidents That Were Possibly Linked to Pro-Palestinian Protest A 34-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with multiple arson incidents and the firebombing of a campus police vehicle at UC Berkeley, and these may have been acts of protest over the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters.
SF News Housing Moves Forward at People's Park After State Supreme Court Rejects 'People as Pollution' Argument The California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of UC Berkeley and against a neighborhood group in a lawsuit that was testing the boundaries of the state's environmental review laws for new developments.
SF News Berkeley Protesters Have Broken Into and Occupied Empty Building In Renewed Pro-Palestine Protest Just after UC Berkeley had successfully cleared the large tent encampment that was protesting the university's military- and Israel-related investments, another renegade group has occupied the school's empty Anna Head Hall, though their anti-semitic graffiti may not be helping their cause.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Gaza Protesters Agree to End Their Month-Long Encampment The 49ers’ 2024 schedule is being leaked in bits and pieces; Frank Somerville got community service instead of jail for his latest troubles; and UC Berkeley’s Gaza protesters have agreed to fold up their tents and go home.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: LAPD Descends on UCLA Encampment; 2 Injured In Scuffle at UC Berkeley Camp The LAPD cleared the encampment at UCLA early this morning after facing heavy resistance; a tussle broke out at the UC Berkeley encampment Wednesday night between two opposing groups; and the Bay Lights are set to come back on on the Bay Bridge next March.
SF News UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment Grows to 175 Tents; Violence Breaks Out at UCLA Protest The college campus protests sweeping the nation have of course also swept UC Berkeley, with an estimated 175 tents now pitched at Sproul Plaza — up from just a dozen last week — and classes have been canceled at UCLA today amidst an outbreak of violence at that school’s protest.
