Crime

Highway 24 shooting leaves man wounded, blocks lanes

The CHP closed eastbound SR-24 at Claremont Avenue on Tuesday afternoon "to allow investigators to search for evidence."

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.

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.