A woman sitting at a table in a business near the UC Berkeley campus was injured when she resisted a robber who grabbed her laptop, according to Berkeley police. The two struggled and fell, and the robber escaped with the laptop, police said.
Faced with continuing financial strains, the school board for West Contra Costa schools will hold a public hearing and special workshop Wednesday night on setting priorities and finding funding.
The first Drew Gooden Invitational Showcase for high school varsity basketball pits several top teams from northern and southern California at El Cerrito High. The Gauchos play Palma from Salinas at 3 p.m.
There's a lot of food around this time of year. These tips from Stanford could help you prevent packing on the pounds.
The El Cerrito Police Blotter for Dec. 11-13 includes a bicyclist arrested after a struggle with several officers at El Cerrito Plaza, a door-to-door solicitor arrested on warrants and a youth arrested at El Cerrito High on suspicion of selling pot.
A law authored by a Bay Area Congresswoman that turns down the volume on TV commercials took effect Thursday. The FCC says compliance will rely on monitoring by consumers. So we tell you where you can file complaints.
Rain or shine, this sturdy steed waits in perpetual readiness for action. If you are first to tell us in the comments below where he can be found in El Cerrito or Kensington, you'll win a prize.
The El Cerrito Police Blotter for Dec. 3-10 included a car stolen from the San Pablo Ave. Starbucks when the owner went in for 15 minutes to get coffee, another laptop swiped at the El Cerrito Plaza Starbucks and a car fleeing the wrong way onto I-80.
The British-based grocery chain prepares to pull the plug on its 199 U.S. supermarkets. Offers to buy the chain are already surfacing.
The El Cerrito Police Blotter for Nov. 27-29 includes the fourth recovery of an occupied stolen vehicle in two months by Officer Li, two home burglaries, four DUI arrests and the arrest of a Petco employee for alleged embezzlement.
Books can be not only great holiday gifts. If chosen well, they can broaden the horizons of young people and open the minds of reluctant readers to the joys of reading. Here are a few suggestions from James Patterson's ReadKiddoRead gift list.
We don't know if R. Crumb had a hand in this illustration, but we do know that if you are first to tell us in the comments below where it can be found in El Cerrito or Kensington, you'll win a prize.
The City of El Cerrito has sand bags for El Cerrito and Kensington residents concerned about flooding from the storms. You must show ID to prove residency and are limited to 10 bags, which you fill yourself with city-supplied sand.
The El Cerrito Police Blotter for Nov. 19-22 includes a pedestrian whose arm was broken when hit by a vehicle on San Pablo Ave. outside a crosswalk, six cars broken into and a man reported as carrying a gun that was actually an exhaust pipe.
The El Cerrito Police Blotter for Nov. 23-25 includes an armed robbery of a victim by two gunmen on foot at Liberty and Oak streets and an attempted burglary of a home where the resident didn't answer the doorbell rung by the burglar.
The National Weather Service forecast for El Cerrito and environs says rain is likely beginning tonight, Tuesday, and continuing at least to Sunday with occasionally heavy rainfall and gusty winds.
The Harding Elementary School PTA says several of the after-school classes in the new session are under-enrolled and need more students. Classes are open to the public, not just Harding families.
The principal of Portola Middle School in El Cerrito, Matthew Burnham, will address the state of academics at the school at a meeting Monday night. Parents, potential future parents, teachers and other community members are all invited.
The El Cerrito Police Blotter for Nov. 16-18 includes two cases where purses were snatched on sidewalks between 9-10 p.m. on Nov. 16, two home burglaries, a pot-for-sale bust and arrest of a man in a stolen Toyota Tundra.
Schools and many government offices will be closed both on Thursday, Thanksgiving, and on Friday. BART will run a Sunday schedule on Thursday and extra long trains on the following day for Black Friday shoppers.
