Rising Oakland crime draws fervent pleas for city action

Violence against women was a recurrent theme throughout the night: "Women are being assaulted. Let’s not sugarcoat this," one woman said.

Driver causes 3-car crash in Berkeley, flees on foot

A Volkswagen Jetta sustained heavy damage, its airbags covered in blood, but it was abandoned when police arrived.

Brazen thieves take $52K in tech from Berkeley Apple Store

The group scooped up the merchandise within just a few minutes, then fled the scene in a recently carjacked minivan, police said.

Woman in her 70s robbed by kids outside police station

Police arrested a 12-year-old and several others. BPD also investigated an armed robbery and a carjacking near campus over the weekend.

Jasper Wu judge holds 2 of 3 suspects on murder charge

The judge said the third man acted in self-defense when he fired back at the shooter whose stray rifle round killed Jasper Wu.

Hate crime vandalism at UC president's Berkeley mansion is under investigation

Police say the Claremont Boulevard home was spray-painted with "racial slurs, profanity and other miscellaneous words and symbols."

OPD links 9-person robbery crew, ages 12-17, to 35 holdups

OPD said several different robbery crews have been "brazenly victimizing individuals at alarming rates" in recent weeks.