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Protests by University of California students angered by planned tuition hikes continued in Santa Cruz on Saturday with a possible confrontation with police in the offing following unsuccessful negotiations between students and administrators.

Bay Area art lovers will not be stepping into a futuristic, $200 million UC Berkeley museum designed by celebrated Toyko architect Toyo Ito, but they still will have a new museum in the city's downtown within the next several years, officials with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive said Wednesday.

A crucial first vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul looms in the Senate.

A trove of some 6,500 letters to and from renowned California conservationist John Muir is now available on the Internet.

UC Santa Cruz remain barricaded after Berkeley arrests BERKELEY, Calif. Students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aren't ceding any ground in their protests against fee hikes and budget cuts after 41 demonstrators were arrested at UC Berkeley.

A Berkeley man has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting earlier this year of a 17-year-old Danville boy.

Students protest tuition hikes inside Wheeler Hall. abc7news.com Early Friday morning students at UC Berkeley barricaded themselves inside Wheeler Hall in response to the 32 percent tuition increase decided by the UC Regents on Thursday.

About 50 protesters have taken over Wheeler Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, according to news reports.

African Immigrants Social and Cultural Services is holding an event Saturday to raise money to bring educational services to rural Tanzania.

The University of California has named interim Director A. Paul Alivisatos as the permanent head of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

The 10-month-long investigation into the slaying of 17-year-old Rylan Fuchs is coming to an end, as police Thursday announced the arrest of a Berkeley resident in connection with the shooting death.

SEVENTY FIVE years ago, the Nov. 19, 1934, Berkeley Daily Gazette carried a note about the publication of a new book, "The Incidence of Delinquency in Berkeley, 1928-32." It was just out from the UC Press, and a product of the Bureau of Public Administration on the campus.

Employees of the University of California at Berkeley Wednesday morning kicked off three days of labor strikes and student walkouts to protest student fee increases being considered by the UC Board of Regents.

A shortage of funds has prompted UC Berkeley to abandon its plan to construct a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive downtown.

Financially hobbled University of California moved Wednesday to boost student fees by $2,500 over two years as students staged raucous demonstrations across the state against the higher costs.

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As raucous demonstrators protested, a University of California regents panel today approved a 32-percent fee hike, including a midyear increase that will hit students' pocketbooks in January.

Curtis Martin, the man accused of killing his girlfriend and dumping her body in a parking lot at Aquatic Park in Berkeley, also was charged Tuesday with killing her 17-month-old son, making the violent felon eligible for the death penalty.

The Downtown Berkeley Association hired John Caner as executive director. Caner takes over Nov.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Barbara J. Miller died of natural causes, police announced today after a preliminary autopsy found no signs of trauma.