Update: Berkeley police describe green van incident as ‘suspicious’
BPD: “At this point it doesn’t meet the criteria to be attempted kidnapping.”
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Berkeley kids speak up for science
Two Berkeley brothers, ages 11 and 12, started an organization encouraging other kids to participate in the March for Science on April 22.
School on alert, students on edge about ‘evil clowns’
Sightings and online reports of creepy clowns some real, many fake, are keeping police departments busy nationwide.
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Crime in Berkeley: Teen raped on Grizzly Peak, high-speed chase on Dohr, fake report of shooter on campus, more
In this week’s blotter: an 18-year-old reported having been raped on Grizzly Peak, an elderly man with mental issues tried to rob a bank using a note, there was a high-speed chase and crash on Dohr, and a local sandwich shop owner said he was underwhelmed by the police response when he found a drugged-out man locked in the bathroom when the owner came in to open the shop one morning.
Jamie Oliver visits Edible Schoolyard with Alice Waters
British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver dropped in on a cookery class today at King School and had a tour of its famous garden by Alice Waters.
