UC Berkeley campus police have arrested three people — including a 14-year-old — after an armed robbery, assault and carjacking on Grizzly Peak Boulevard on Monday night.
Amer Alhaggagi has admitted to opening social media accounts for ISIS and planning bombings and fires around Berkeley. His attorneys say he was just kidding around.
Many fires are caused by downed power lines, but while some say a new PG&E shutoff policy makes sense, others believe cutting power during an emergency puts people at greater risk.
Amer Sinan Alhaggagi admitted he opened Twitter and Facebook accounts for people connected to ISIS. The FBI said he also had plans to set bombs throughout the Bay Area.
UC Berkeley Police sent out safety tips Monday afternoon after a Sunday sighting in the hills.
Authorities are looking for a man who tackled a Cal student while she was jogging Thursday evening, groped her and tried to take off her clothing on a Berkeley Hills trail.
Firefighters put out a grass fire that broke out on Golf Course Road and Ajax Place in Tilden.
A breathtaking house designed by Berkeley architect John Hans Ostwald in 1958 is now on the market for the first time, with an asking price $2.375 million.
A local resident caught a would-be burglar on camera before the man tried to run off with a bag of jewelry, according to a community report.
A 38-year-old Yuba City man has been charged with gun and drug violations after police found him at a Berkeley construction site behaving "erratically," authorities report.
A woman was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound after an attempted robbery on Grizzly Peak Boulevard in the early hours of Tuesday morning, authorities say.
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