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PG&E outage map | Remembering 16-year-old Lillia Bartlow | Berkeley crime on the rise | Celebrating 10 years of Nosh

Ashby Avenue

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Police: After Ashby fire, men found with meth, mailbox keys, ID theft document trove

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Aug. 30, 2022, 2:02 p.m.August 30, 2022

Authorities say the men had more than 1,700 personal items that did not belong to them, including mail, checks and ID cards, as well as a gun and ammunition.

Posted inCrime & Safety

2 displaced in South Berkeley apartment fire on Ashby Avenue

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Aug. 01, 2022, 1:02 p.m.August 2, 2022

One neighbor told Berkeleyside she woke in the night to hear “firefighters chain sawing the roof down.”

Posted inCrime & Safety

Former Cal football player charged with felony assault after Elmwood attacks

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso June 14, 2022, 8:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

The player, who is a UC Berkeley student, missed all of the 2020 football season and nearly all of 2021 due to injury. The team released him in April.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Man, 22, sent for psych eval after series of attacks Monday in the Elmwood

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso June 07, 2022, 4:11 p.m.June 9, 2022

Police said the man punched two men and a woman in separate locations Monday afternoon, sending one of the men to the hospital.

Posted inCrime & Safety

DoorDash should stop texting its drivers while they’re moving, wrongful death lawsuit says

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Dec. 22, 2021, 4:58 p.m.August 4, 2022

“If they don’t revise their practice of texting drivers while driving with unmounted cellphones,” said Mark Webb, “there will be more accidents.”

Posted inCrime & Safety

CHP: Driver ‘doored’ cyclist before crash that left her with major injuries

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Dec. 02, 2021, 7:00 p.m.August 4, 2022

The woman, a 43-year-old mother, was on her way to meet her husband and their three children for lunch when the crash happened.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Update: Cyclist was critically injured in car crash but expected to survive

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Nov. 24, 2021, 1:58 p.m.August 4, 2022

The Berkeley Fire Department rushed the woman to Highland Hospital in an effort to save her life. She was not breathing and had no pulse.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Update: Richmond man found dead on Ashby Avenue was killed by driver

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Nov. 18, 2021, 4:10 p.m.August 4, 2022

Authorities have identified the man who died Nov. 17 as Angel Barrera of Richmond. He was killed by a hit-and-run driver.

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Berkeley neighbors fight to save their community garden

Avatar photo by Kate Darby Rauch Nov. 08, 2021, 10:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

In 2004, a group of neighbors were given permission to garden on two empty lots along Ashby Avenue. With one of the lots up for sale, they’re rallying to save their garden.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Hit-and-run crash killed man found in South Berkeley median, autopsy shows

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Sept. 15, 2021, 2:51 p.m.August 4, 2022

The man’s death first appeared to have been due to a medical emergency. On Wednesday, police asked for help to find the driver who hit him.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Woman who died in Berkeley apartment fire is identified

Avatar photo by Supriya Yelimeli Sept. 10, 2021, 5:18 p.m.October 4, 2022

Ernestine Bankston, 85, was identified as the victim in the early morning fire, the coroner’s office reported.

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Police: Man charged with making threats after grabbing boy on Telegraph Avenue

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Sept. 09, 2021, 4:31 p.m.August 4, 2022

The mother and child took refuge in Whole Foods after the man grabbed the child, BPD said, and “made a threat to bash the child’s head in.”

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