A march by activists who hope to stop development at People's Park turned violent Tuesday when a driver ran over a bicycle and a homeless man, according to police and community reports.
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.
A man authorities say brought a fake bomb featuring "anti Jewish writings" into the UC Berkeley Police Department has been charged with dropping off the sham explosive, but not a hate crime, according to court papers.
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.
A man who sexually battered a woman after entering her Southside Berkeley home through an unlocked window early Sunday morning has been arrested, police report.
Authorities are looking for a man who sexually battered a woman at her home near the UC Berkeley campus, police reported over the weekend.
An eight-story student housing complex on Bancroft Way, to include about 330 beds, has been approved by Berkeley's zoning board right across the street from the Cal campus.
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Many doubted it would ever come to pass, but construction work has started at the long-vacant lot at Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue in Southside Berkeley.
Police arrested three teenagers early Tuesday after the robbery, at gunpoint, of a UC Berkeley student in the Southside neighborhood, authorities report.
A gun sighting scared the campus community Wednesday morning.
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