The Berkeley Wire: 08.06.19
News about Berkeley from around the web.
Archives August 6, 2019
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Crime roundup: Kidnapping outside Habitot, gunfire on Francisco, more
A woman took a child from a father going to Habitot, a man shot a gun inside his home, a business owner was attacked when he confronted a man outside his shop, and more in this week’s Berkeley crime roundup.
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Man, woman stabbed early Tuesday morning at downtown Berkeley BART
A man and woman were stabbed while riding the escalator together from the downtown Berkeley BART station up to Shattuck Avenue early Tuesday morning, BART reports. They are expected to survive.
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Berkeley bans the sale of flavored tobacco and vape pods
Officials hope a new law will help keep popular, dangerous products out of kids’ hands.
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The Edge of Extinction, Part 2: The best-laid plans of mice and men â Video
In the second of our five-part Edge Of Extinction video series, we meet the salt marsh harvest mouse which lives on our shoreline, and has been on the endangered species list since 1970.
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Remembering Jerome (Jay) Singer, UC Berkeley physicist, pioneer of magnetic imagingÂ
The longtime Berkeley resident and ping pong aficionado, who was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his research on magnetic imaging, died at 97.
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Cigarette fire displaces 3 from Berkeley senior housing; Mo’Joe closed for now
Three residents of a senior housing complex have been displaced by a fire authorities believe began Sunday with a visitor’s lit cigarette. Water damage also temporarily closed Mo’Joe CafĂŠ.
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Crew on location in Berkeley for â13 Reasons Whyâ film shoot
The Netflix show has come in for its share of criticism, not least for its graphic depiction of issues such as suicide and rape.
