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A man sitting in his car with a woman at a popular lookout on Grizzly Peak Boulevard was pistol-whipped and robbed on Saturday, authorities said.

"What have you been doing for the past few months?" O'Reilly Factor producer Dan Bank asked the man on the street who had not heard of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack until that moment.

A Lexus being chased early Monday by Contra Costa Sheriff's deputies on Interstate 80 wound up in ice plant and dry grass near a freeway offramp, as did two patrol cars pursuing it, officials said.

People who live in Berkeley, California are certainly used to seeing some strange things on the streets of their city.

Big Oil and Gas donated at least $464,000 and outspent fracking opponents by a 7-1 margin.

He was born June 23, 1925 in Berkeley, California, the son of Joseph Dexter Enas, III and Helen Kathleen Enas.

The media and business worlds love experts with strong opinions and the ability to explain them confidently and authoritatively.

WHEN Lynn Xu was a child, she was diagnosed with a severe allergy to the sun. As a result, she spent long days indoors with her grandmother, poring over classical Chinese poems.

Two 22-year-old men killed when their car veered into a tree off Powell Street early Saturday were identified as Elijah Albert, of Richmond, and Kent Owens Jr., of Berkeley, the Alameda County Coroner said Sunday.

Police investigate the scene of gunshots near Telegraph Ave. and Channing Way in Berkeley at 1:07 a.m. on Sunday June 16, 2013.

The world's safest house, according to architect Eugene Tsui and current Internet buzz, is a Berkeley, Calif., home that was inspired by an alien-looking, sturdy animal called a tardigrade .

Education is essential to protect the citizenry from those in power and from each other.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an easier and more effective method for inserting genes into eye cells that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases ranging from inherited defects like retinitis pigmentosa to degenerative illnesses of old age, such as macular ... (more)

Today Cynthia Johnson, Christopher Lewis Macy, and Cynthia Papermaster will start their open-ended fasts in solidarity with the Hunger Strike at Guantanamo Prison, where over 100 men have been refusing to eat, some for over 130 days, and where over 40 of them are being force fed in a way amounting to torture.

Along with family members of Kayla Moore, Berkeley Copwatch has been trying to investigate the February 13, 2013 death of Kayla Moore in police custody.

The U.S. government's "war on terror" and its companion "surveillance state" have become troubling issues not only for the civil liberties of Americans but even more so for the rest of the world where popular movements are arising to challenge the electronic penetration of people's information and violation of their privacy.

Trees once looked like green panels for Bruce Bridgeman. He'd have to move his head to gauge the relative closeness of objects.

Economists have long known that disability filings go up during recessions, however, they aren't sure why .

A new study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California has found the biological soil crust layer of a desert contains microbes that lie in wait for the ideal conditions to begin metabolic activity.

Tsunami Dogs is now slinging franks out of a converted parking attendant booth at a lot in downtown Berkeley.