Authorities have charged a 20-year-old UC Berkeley student with felony sex crimes involving two women in 2017 and 2019, according to court papers. One of the incidents took place at a fraternity.
Police say two people with a knife tried to rob a Berkeley man on Ellsworth Street. An armed pair also took a backpack and laptop from a UC Berkeley student on campus Wednesday night. Police say they may be related.
The Berkeley City Council voted Tuesday night to increase parking ticket fines on Cal football game days to $225. The vote was part of a package of changes staff asked officials to make to the city's parking program.
A 20-year-old UC Berkeley student was arrested this week in connection with three felony sexual assault allegations, Berkeleyside has learned.
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.
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.
Police believe that Calvin Kelley was the third person killed in one day by the suspect, Stefon Jefferson.
The Berkeley Police Department is investigating a rape reported early Sunday morning at a UC Berkeley fraternity. A local resident familiar with the case identified the frat as Sigma Phi Epsilon.
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.
It's Berkeley's first homicide since January 2017. The man's name has not been released.
A man who told police he was sick of Kiwibot delivery robots roaming Berkeley streets stole one and put it in his trunk Thursday night, authorities report.
A man was attacked Thursday night in Southside Berkeley after he refused to answer questions posed by a man who walked up to him outside Bongo Burger, authorities report.
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.
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