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.
Woman, 78, staves off robbery attempt by teen with BB gun
The woman used a stick to knock the BB gun from the teenager's hand. Officers arrested him in the area, police said.
'Our sense of safety has been taken from us': Reflections after a Berkeley 'hot prowl' burglary
The March 12 burglary was one of four in the neighborhood on the same night. Two of them were "hot prowl" burglaries where people were home.
Man gets 35 years to life after Berkeley road-rage murder
The killer had a chance to leave but "chose to escalate traffic conflict to murder," the judge said Friday.
UC Berkeley student tries to sell Nikes but is robbed at gunpoint
The victim, a Cal student in his 20s, had arranged to sell his Nikes — but the men who showed up to buy them robbed him instead, police said.