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Berkeley police: DUI cyclist hits car, breaks leg at Marin Circle
Police said the cyclist came down the steep hill on Marin Avenue without a helmet and was blowing stop signs "at a high rate of speed."
Man set to serve 21 years after fatal Berkeley Hills shooting
Jessie McAllister, then 26, was charged with the murder of 39-year-old Alfred Charles Taylor Jr. at a home in the 1100 block of Glen Avenue.
Attempted armed carjacking in the Berkeley Hills
There have already been at least 19 carjackings in Berkeley in 2023, according to preliminary data. That's up significantly from historic averages.
Berkeley fires displace 1 from home, damage businesses
"The overall concern is keeping companies in service," BFD said, "because of the increase in temperatures and fire activity around the Bay area."
Berkeley High mountain biker bikejacked in Tilden park
The student was riding near the Tilden golf course parking lot when a black Camry cut him off. Two people in masks ordered him off his bike.
Man gets 3 years for sodomy of boy, 15, in Berkeley in 1997
"You took everything from me," the victim told defendant Kevin Davis in court Monday, calling the sentence a "pathetic excuse for justice."
Frank Somerville arrested twice in Berkeley in just 10 hours
The first arrest related to criminal threats, battery, public intoxication and probation violation, BPD said. He was later arrested on suspicion of DUI.