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U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A Berkeley woman was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter for killing her 9-year-old son with an apparent overdose of a prescription drug, authorities said today. Misti Mina Hassan, 31, entered her plea Fr.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 8:21pm neoform

CBS News -- A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fight.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 30, 2008 @ 8:07am neoform

SF Gate -- A 29-year-old man was shot to death in south Berkeley late Wednesday, police said today. The victim, whose name was not released, was shot at about 11:30 p.m. near the corner of Tyler and California streets, one block south of Ashby Avenue, said police.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A woman riding her bicycle in Berkeley was struck and seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash by a motorcyclist fleeing from California Highway Patrol officers, authorities said today. The incident began about 11:15 p.m. Sunday when two CHP officers i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- The family of a 51-year-old Berkeley woman fatally shot by a police officer just outside her apartment Saturday night has hired Oakland attorney John Burris with the intention of filing a wrongful-death lawsuit, the lawyer said Tuesday. Berkeley police.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Police have arrested an Oakland man on suspicion of beating eight elderly people in Berkeley over the past three months, authorities said today. Investigators tracked down Jahton Green, 21, after he used credit cards and checks stolen from two of the v.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- Award-winning journalist Robert Rosenthal has been named executive director of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. Rosenthal was managing editor of The Chronicle from 2002 until he left the paper earlier this year. He previously worked at.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Berkeley is set to become the first city in the nation to help thousands of its residents generate solar power without having to put money up front - attempting to surmount one of the biggest hurdles for people who don't have enough cash to go green. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- In a city where opposition to the Iraq war is routine, a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting station has been operating quietly in downtown Berkeley for nine months without even a peep from peace activists. The recruiting station, in a storefront at Shattuck.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 29, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

SF Gate -- A minor earthquake shook the Hayward fault in the Berkeley hills at 4:05 p.m. today, and although it registered a magnitude of only 3 the temblor was widely felt as a brief heaving event throughout the East Bay and as far west as San Francisco's ocean bea.. Read More