Emilie Raguso has covered Berkeley crime for more than a decade. She was senior news editor at Berkeleyside, and launched and ran Albany Patch. In 2017, she was SPJ NorCal's journalist of the year.
Teenage boy robbed at UC Berkeley, Nike sweatshirts taken
The victim jumped into a police cruiser seeking help, according to emergency dispatches reviewed by The Scanner.
Cal student still critical after crash, GoFundMe underway
Before the crash, Lucas Benitez was studying molecular environmental biology at Cal with an interest in veterinary medicine.
Citing Price phone call to defense attorney, judge strikes gun count from murder case
Judge Thomas Reardon said the situation "just doesn't pass the stink test."
Sheriff plane, Flock cameras help police nab armed robbers
A man with a gun robbed a delivery driver of his necklace and cellphone, then fled in a getaway car with a woman behind the wheel.
Berkeley murder case from 1990 solved with genetic genealogy
Maria Weidhofer's family said they hope "she will be remembered for the person she was, and not for what happened to her."
Ursula Jones Dickson becomes Alameda County's new DA
"The DA's job is to make sure, as the top law enforcement officer in the county, that we are tending to the public safety of the community," she said.
Berkeley High student robbed at gunpoint during dice game
Three unidentified males took the student's backpack, which contained a laptop and $5,000 in cash, Berkeley police said.