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| Jan.10 |
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Willis-Starbuck Warned Gun Toting Friend
| Jan.16 |
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Auto Burglary On Rise In City
| Jan.25 |
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Fatal, Fiery Crash Was Not Accident
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| Feb.9 |
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No contest plea in Willis-Starbuck shooting Christopher Wilson Jr., 20, pleaded no contest and agreed to testify against his friend Christopher Hollis, 22
| Feb.10 |
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Alta Bates settles with service workers
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Bug Exhibit Is CSI For School Kids |
| Feb.11 |
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Stabbing death at house party
| Feb.20 |
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Former H.S. Football Star shot and killed Keith Stephens died after being shot once while in the 1200 block of Carrison St. around 7:10 p.m.
| Feb.21 |
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Thousands Get Mistaken Invitations
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| Mar.1 |
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Small earthquake
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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Dies |
| Mar.17 |
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Cops Seize Over 5,000 Pot Plants
| Mar.18 |
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Cal Knocked Out Of NCAA By N.C. State
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| May.7 |
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Gay Skaters Claim Rink Discriminates |
| May.10 |
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Cody's Books To Close The bookstore that has been part of cultural scene for 43 years will close because of poor sales
| May.11 |
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Second House Fire Heightens Arson Fears
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Sea Lion Bites Woman At Berkeley Marina The hungry sea lion tried to make a meal out of Tawny Huston and took a hunk out of her leg
| May.12 |
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Howard Dean Honors Picket |
| May.22 |
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UC: Bad Design For N.O. Levees A report says most of the Katrina levee failures were caused by poor maintenance, design, and construction
| May.23 |
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Outage Leaves 21,000 Without Power
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| Jun.28 |
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Child stealing conviction upheld on appeal
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Bush Impeachment On City Ballot
| Jun.29 |
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Balanced $292 Million Budget Approved |
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| Jul.6 |
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98-year-old woman died in house fire Jessie Chico died at 11:35 a.m.
| Jul.19 |
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Paintball Gun Attacks Terrorize Residents
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| Aug.9 |
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3-Alarm Apartment Fire Injures 6 People
| Aug.20 |
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Labor Protesters Greet Students Custodians at staged a noisy protest as freshman and returning upper classman started moving into the dorms
| Aug.22 |
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Biologists: Ant Jaws Break Speed Record Researchers led by Sheila Patek say the trap-jaw ant's can clamp its mandibles shut at between 78 and 145 mph
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| Sep.4 |
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Man Found Dead At Sorority House Police to believe 23-year-old Wayne Drummond of Oakland was shot someone else
| Sep.6 |
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30 Sickened In Marijuana Incident 14 to 20 young people are experiencing severe medical symptoms after smoking what they believed was marijuana. Young people were ingesting what they thought were marijuana cookies at a student housing cooperative
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| Sep.7 |
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Japanese bookseller buys Cody's Books A Tokyo-based Yohan Inc. bought Cody's Books
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Three Arrested After Pot Cookie Incident
| Sep.17 |
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Grad Student Found Dead At Co-Op
| Sep.25 |
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2 convicted of fatally beating homeless
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| Oct.4 |
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Prof. & Grad Share Nobel Physics Prize George F. Smoot and NASA's John C. Mather won the prize for work that helped cement the big-bang theory | |
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Berkeley Unified Accused Of Being Racist
| Oct.7 |
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Cal dominates Oregon, 45-24
| Oct.11 |
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Power Failure Closes Downtown Station
| Oct.14 |
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Cal Bears Beat Washington State, 21 to 3
| Oct.21 |
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15th Anniversary Of Wildfire Marked The 1991 blaze killed 25 people and damaged 3,000 homes in Oakland and Berkeley
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12,791 customers lost electricity
| Oct.23 |
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Gore Supports Prop. 87 At Rally Former VP said that a proposition that would raise taxes on oil is needed because the world is facing a climate crisis
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| Nov.8 |
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Mayor Tom Bates re-elected
| Nov.12 |
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Ferry Service for Bay to Expand
| Nov.14 |
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Lawsuit to halt Memorial Stadium upgrades The City is planning a lawsuit to halt extensive upgrades to the Stadium, which straddles the Hayward Fault
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| Dec.2 |
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No. 21 Cal Survives Stubborn Stanford
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Protesters perch in trees to save from ax Zachary RunningWolf, who ran was a candidate to become the mayor, and two others are hoping to save a grove
The University oak grove controversy arose over the planned removal of trees in preparation for the construction of a new student athletic training center.
Berkeley municipal law prohibits removing any coast live oak with a trunk larger than 6 inches within city, but the university claims an exemption to the city law as a state agency.
UC actions have sparked 3 lawsuits
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| Dec.5 |
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Stadium Approved, Tree Sitters Remain The regents' committee voted to approve that $125 million dollar athletic training system
| Dec.16 |
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Biologist Cadet Hammond Hand dies One of the world's top experts on invertebrate zoology taught at the University for more than 50 years
| Dec.19 |
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More Groups Sue Over Stadium Project
| Dec.20 |
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Small 3.7 Earthquake The quake struck at 7:12 p.m. and was centered about 2 miles east-southeast of Berkeley
| Dec.22 |
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Sea Lion Back In Water Along I-80 A sea lion that made a brief foray onto Interstate Highway has found its way back into the bay
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3.7 earthquake felt across Bay Area The quake was struck at 10:49 p.m. and centered in the Berkeley Hills on the Hayward Fault
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3rd Quake In 4 Days Rattles East Bay The temblor that struck at 9:21 a.m. had a preliminary magnitude of 3.5 and a depth of about 6.1 miles | |
| Dec.28 |
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2.8 earthquake
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