Police find loaded gun after gunpoint robbery of UC Berkeley student
A 21-year-old UC Berkeley student was robbed at gunpoint Monday night, then chased and attacked when she refused to give up her phone, authorities report.
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From garden to fenced-in lot to shots fired in Berkeley: People’s Park on May 15, 1969
One bystander was killed, one was permanently blinded, and many others were hurt when police forces used lethal buckshot to corral demonstrators in at the park, newly created on UC Berkeley land, 50 years ago today.
11 years of radical thought and action in Berkeley led to creation of People’s Park
Dozens of protests in support of civil rights, the student movement in France, the Black Panther movement and against the UC Regents set the stage for the creation of the Southside Berkeley park.
‘We ain’t cool no more.’ At People’s Park vigil, witnesses describe moment Berkeley man was fatally shot
Police believe that Calvin Kelley was the third person killed in one day by the suspect, Stefon Jefferson.
Killing in People’s Park may be work of man who killed two others on Friday — including city of Berkeley worker
UC Berkeley police are investigating ties between a homicide in People's Park, and two other homicides that happened within a short time frame on Friday.
Update: Man dies after shooting at People’s Park
It's Berkeley's first homicide since January 2017. The man's name has not been released.
Berkeley’s People’s Park was born 50 years ago today
The creation and destruction of People's Park took 25 days in 1969. April 20 marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the building of the park.
6 arrests at People’s Park as police swoop in to let UC Berkeley resume tree cutting
Six people who had been sleeping in the park were arrested early Tuesday. The encampment had been set up on Jan. 4 to stop UC Berkeley from cutting down more trees.
Opinion: UC Berkeley was devious when it had crews cut down 42 trees at People’s Park
The action was similar to what happened on May 15, 1969, when Gov. Reagan brought a non-union fencing company in at 4 a.m. without warning to fence off the park.
Cal removes 42 trees at People’s Park to ‘address long-deferred maintenance’
Tree chippers and work trucks pulled into People's Park in Berkeley early Friday morning to take out more than 40 trees and prune a number of others, UC Berkeley officials report.
Julia Vinograd, the Berkeley poet known as ‘The Bubble Lady’ dies at 75
Telegraph Avenue was her stomping ground, her nation. She spent her days at the Caffe Med, drinking coffee, watching the world pass by and writing poetry. The City Council gave her a lifetime achievement award.
With Worthington out, wide-ranging candidates vie for Southside seat
Rigel Robinson, Aidan Hill and Ces Rosales all aim to represent the "student supermajority" District 7.
