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Ursula Jones Dickson said she plans to hit the ground running as Alameda County's new district attorney and has already selected Annie Esposito as her second-in-command. She outlined some of…

Judge Ursula Jones Dickson will be Alameda County's next district attorney following a long-anticipated vote by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday evening. The vote to fill the vacant position…

Police are investigating an apparent organized retail theft at the Berkeley North Face Outlet on Monday afternoon. The store reported six or more people who pulled up to the store…

By Kara Manke, UC Berkeley News As wildfires continue to rage in LA, many San Francisco Bay Area residents are asking themselves if a similar disaster could happen here — and,…

Update: A 66-year-old woman is dead after being struck by a driver in North Berkeley on Sunday afternoon near Monterey Market, authorities have confirmed. BPD's Fatal Accident Investigation Team will…

Police in Berkeley are investigating two seemingly unrelated shootings Friday night: one, gunfire on the freeway, the other, the case of a man who showed up wounded at a local…

Police have arrested the suspect in a UC Berkeley sex crime case that made headlines earlier this week. On Friday shortly after midnight, police arrested 33-year-old Andrew McNear at Ninth…

For a couple of weeks he was just a man found dead in a UC Berkeley bathroom on a chilly day in January. Unidentified and, in coroner-speak, unclaimed, because they…

Berkeley police are investigating a fake 911 call this week that briefly caused concern at a local elementary school. The incident began around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday when Berkeley police got…

A woman pepper-sprayed a man Tuesday night on the Berkeley-Albany border after he said he wanted to sexually assault her and pulled her off her bike, police report. The man…