Emilie Raguso (senior reporter, community engagement chief) joined the Berkeleyside team in October 2012. She covers politics, public safety and development in Berkeley, California. In 2017, Emilie was honored to be chosen as the Journalist of the Year by the SPJ NorCal board. Her reporting on homelessness has also been recognized by SPJ NorCal, and she was part of the Berkeleyside team to win Community Journalism awards from the organization two years running. Emilie previously launched and ran community news site Albany Patch in Albany, California. Her stories have appeared on the New York Times website, Salon and NPR. Emilie's first full-time news job was as a crime reporter for The Modesto Bee after she got her master’s in journalism from UC Berkeley in 2006.
Police say one woman jumped out of a moving vehicle to escape him. Another threatened to break his car window after he touched her and locked his doors so she couldn't flee. The Oakland man was charged Monday.
A two-alarm fire on Hearst Avenue displaced 12 people from a northwest Berkeley home on Saturday morning, authorities report.
Berkeley police who investigated reports that a man brought a gun to a North Berkeley middle school Thursday found them to be inconclusive, authorities say.
Four BUSD students who threatened a woman who tried to stop them from taking her laptop Friday at a Berkeley café have been arrested, officials report.
A San Pablo man police have linked to a group that's repeatedly stolen laptops from people in Berkeley has been charged with grand theft in connection with a case dating back to January, authorities report.
Police responded Thursday to a report of a man with a gun at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in North Berkeley, authorities report. The investigation is underway.
Police in Berkeley are looking for what was reported to have been a pair of 10-year-old boys who grabbed a wallet from a pedestrian at Hearst Avenue and California Street on Thursday afternoon.
The Berkeley Police Department regularly releases cases of community interest, which include incidents that involve violence or weapons or that people in the city have asked about.
A traffic stop in West Berkeley over the weekend put a Berkeley arborist in jail on suspicion of a slew of firearm-related violations, authorities report.
Two young men from Oakland and San Leandro are facing 14 felony charges from a series of robberies at two Berkeley cafés and a bus stop in April, according to court papers. They face charges from Oakland, too.
For the first time in 55 years, the public will have a chance, starting Saturday, to tour the Oakland Mormon temple, which is perched atop an 18-acre complex in the Oakland hills.
Berkeley police asked motorists to avoid Ashby Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way after a three-car crash that sent one person to the hospital with minor injuries.
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