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I worked many years as a staff writer and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle until April of 2009, when I switched to freelancing. I then wrote for the Los Angeles Times and other publications, and I also took on editing assignments for UC Berkeley and the United Nations.
Being an East Bay reporter for Patch brings my career full circle in the East Bay. My first bylines appeared in the East Bay Review of the Performing Arts. I next worked as a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian while studying at UC Berkeley, where I obtained a master's in journalism. I was a reporter at the Contra Costa Independent, Berkeley Gazette and San Francisco Examiner before moving to the Chronicle, where I worked several years in the Berkeley bureau and in the main East Bay bureau in Oakland.
UC Berkeley police said man exposed his genitals and performed a lewd act Wednesday night in view of female students in a women's restroom in a campus dorm and at a dorm workout room.
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The 16-year-old accused of setting a Berkeley Maybeck High student on fire on an AC Transit bus has been charged with a hate crime. He told police he ignited the skirt-wearing male teen because he is homophobic, authorities said.
The 16-year-old accused of setting a Berkeley Maybeck High student on fire on an AC Transit bus has been charged with a hate crime. He told police he ignited the skirt-wearing male teen because he is homophobic, authorities said.
A 21-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint of her cellphone and purse in a street robbery in Berkeley Friday night. It was the third night in a row that a street robbery occurred in the general vicinity of the UC Berkeley campus.
Many members of the public have rallied to offer support for an 18-year-old student at Maybeck High School in Berkeley, who suffered severe burns Monday when he was sleeping on an AC Transit bus and was set on fire by another passenger.
Many members of the public have rallied to offer support for an 18-year-old student at Maybeck High School in Berkeley, who suffered severe burns Monday when he was sleeping on an AC Transit bus and was set on fire by another passenger.
The City of Albany is collecting coats, toys and food in annual donation drive. A new recipient has been added to the list this year – the city's temporary shelter for the homeless at Albany Bulb.
The Berkeley Police SWAT team took first place among 35 agencies in a grueling "Urban Shield" competition involving three dozen training scenarios designed to simulate real-world emergencies.
Many members of the public have rallied to offer support for an 18-year-old student at Maybeck High School in Berkeley, who suffered severe burns Monday when he was sleeping on an AC Transit bus and was set on fire by another passenger.
Many members of the public have rallied to offer support for an 18-year-old student at Maybeck High School in Berkeley, who suffered severe burns Monday when he was sleeping on an AC Transit bus and was set on fire by another passenger.
UC Berkeley's 10th Chancellor, Nicolas Dirks, will be inaugurated Friday in a ceremony marked by academic pageantry, including a procession by professors and other dignitaries in colorful academic regalia.
A 16-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a sleeping 18-year-old male passenger on an AC Transit bus in Oakland late Monday afternoon, police said. The victim suffered second- and third-degree burns.
UC Berkeley's 10th Chancellor, Nicolas Dirks, will be inaugurated Friday in a ceremony marked by academic pageantry, including a procession by professors and other dignitaries in colorful academic regalia.
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A brush fire burned about a quarter of an acre at the western edge of UC Berkeley's University Village near the railroad tracks in Albany today, Tuesday, fire officials said. A fence was damaged, and a firefighter was stung twice by ground wasps.
A brush fire burned about a quarter of an acre at the western edge of University Village near the railroad tracks in Albany today, Tuesday, fire officials said. A fence was damaged, and a firefighter was stung twice by ground wasps.
A 16-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a sleeping 18-year-old male passenger on an AC Transit bus in Oakland late Monday afternoon, police said. The victim suffered second- and third-degree burns.
A 16-year-old male has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a sleeping 18-year-old male passenger on an AC Transit bus in Oakland late Monday afternoon, police said. The victim suffered second- and third-degree burns.
The Albany City Council on Monday night okayed the design for the first phase of the proposed Pierce Street Park next to Interstate 80 and established a working group to explore a possible ballot measure to ease residential parking requirements.
