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Police are investigating a shooting that woke the neighborhood and damaged multiple vehicles in West Berkeley overnight. Berkeley police began getting calls Wednesday about the sound of gunfire at 1…

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A Berkeley police officer doing surveillance on Fourth Street caught two people who tried to take more than $900 in goods from Lululemon on Monday, authorities report. A reader who…

A homeless man who was stabbed outside a downtown Berkeley bank two years ago took the stand recently to describe the unprovoked attack in dramatic detail. At the end of…

A motorcycle rider reportedly died Sunday in a crash on Interstate 80 in Berkeley, according to preliminary reports. The crash was reported near the Gilman Street exit shortly after 3…

Police in Albany are investigating multiple incidents of antisemitic graffiti in recent weeks, including at UC Berkeley's University Village family housing complex. So far, authorities have declined to release specifics…

Berkeley police have arrested a man who attacked two people on Sacramento Street for no reason Saturday evening, authorities report. At least one of the victims was taken to the…

Police are looking for a woman who carjacked a man at gunpoint while he ate fast food in his car in northwest Berkeley this week. Officers already found the stolen…

A man who forced his ex-girlfriend into a car with her three toddlers and drove them to San Leandro is in custody Thursday night, Berkeley police report. Police said they…

A group of people who grabbed a UC Berkeley student and put him into a van on campus Tuesday night did it as part of a prank related to their…