Calif man charged with murdering girlfriend, child

Prosecutors say a 38-year-old Oakland man killed his girlfriend's young son, dumped his body in the water, then killed her to stop her from telling anyone.

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UC Berkeley faculty wants sports subsidies stopped

Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, are crying foul about the millions of dollars in subsidies directed to the school's athletic department.

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Hackers breach UC Berkeley computer database

Officials at the University of California at Berkeley say hackers infiltrated restricted computer databases, and the personal information of up to 160,000 people may be compromised.

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Berkeley moves ahead with solar-financing program

The city of Berkeley has made a big step toward starting a pioneering program to provide city-backed loans to homeowners who install rooftop solar-electric systems.

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Berkeley Eases Anti-Marines Stance

City council members who were criticized for telling Marine recruiters they don't belong here have moderated their position, saying they oppose the Iraq war but support the troops.

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Berkeley Mulls New Vote on Marines

Officials in this liberal city may soften their anti-recruitment stance toward the U.S. Marines in the face of widespread criticism.

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Craigslist Gives $1.6M to UC Berkeley

Craigslist has donated $1.6 million to the University of California, Berkeley, to help create the first endowed professorship at the school's five-year-old new media center.

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Calif. City Weighs Bush-Cheney Impeachment

The left-leaning city of Berkeley will let voters decide whether to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

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Dean Cancels Berkeley Graduation Speech

Democratic chairman Howard Dean and several officials backed out of giving graduation speeches at the University of California, Berkeley, to avoid crossing a picket line for janitors.

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My talk was titled 'The War Against Terror: Reasons for the Persistence of Anti-Americanism in Pakistan', and, coming on the heels of the passage of the controversial aid bill, it drew a diverse audience.

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These short-term fixes, however, "are an unsustainable long-term financial strategy," Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said Friday in an announcement posted on the campus Web site. "We are now planning for a future that relies less on volatile state funding."

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Editor's note: California Watch is a new reporting unit of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, based in Berkeley. The Sacramento Bee plans to use their work on occasion.

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BERKELEY — Flanked by a banner reading "Free the Hikers," supporters of three young Berkeley alums being detained by the Iranian authorities held a news conference today at Alumni House to press for the trio's release.

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"According to research to be presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association" on August 9, 2009, the growth in the number of Americans who reject organized religion may be slower than previously reported.

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Cities from Singapore to San Antonio have been resuscitating rivers and turning storm drains into streams. In Los Angeles, residents' groups and some elected officials are looking anew at buried or concrete-lined creeks as assets instead of inconveniences. More Articles

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The two-month-old Berkeley liberal online hub called Presente -- which wants to be the Latino MoveOn -- has scored the progressive daily double: It has ticked off both Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. How: It is airing a radio ad this week in on Spanish-language stations in St.

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Texas can now boast what may be its most bizarre and undoubtedly its slimiest topper yet: the world's largest known colony of clonal amoebas. More Articles

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Stanford historian David Kennedy, this year's Jefferson Lecturer, sees America's all-volunteer military as lean, lethal, and far too easy to send into battle

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They're called "synthetic biologists" and they boldly claim the ability to make living things, one genetic molecule at a time.

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At UC Berkeley campus students can now enroll in quite possibly the best class ever for a gamer. GamePro takes it upon themselves to learn about Starcraft theory and the many ways it can be applied to life.

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Does the Christian Right Have It "Right?"

During my undergraduate years in college, I served as student coordinator for Campus Crusade for Christ. At the peak of the Vietnam War and political protests, I participated in a faith-based initiative on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley.

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To a generation of science readers, he is the oddball astronomer who reportedly called a colleague a Nazi, claimed credit for everything that happened in cosmology after Einstein, and assaulted his peers in print and in person. To Barbarina Zwicky, he is Daddy.

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Energy Secretary and other "green team" appointments

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March 8th, 2008 @ Berkeley.

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The last time Americans danced and cheered in the streets was in 1945, when the nation finally defeated its enemies in the Second World War. I have no memories of those exuberant days.

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Obama - citing an article by Michael Pollan, an author and outspoken critic of U.S.

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Berkeley's infamous tree-sitters have been hit with a rude surprise since they came down to earth: Judges are socking them with thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees.Ironically, much of the money - which could total more than $10,000 per sitter - is going straight to the U …

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The California city of Berkeley has approved a new financing scheme for loans to homeowners who install rooftop solar panels, a landmark programme that could inspire other US cities to follow suit.

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Berkeley, CA, in its typical and wonderfully progressive fashion, is trying to help residents cover the cost of installing solar panels on their homes. The program is already a model for many other cities.

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Many in the west have the mistaken notion that there are no Muslims who speak out against Islamic extremism. Of course this is false. One progressive, who is a faithful Muslim yet quite willing to speak up against extremism, is Irshad Manji.

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In Michael Bauer's review for the San Francisco Chonicle (SFGate.com), (dated Sunday, August 31, 2008) the critic says "Some restaurants try so hard to be "authentic" to whatever cuisine they're cooking that eating there seems like a walk through the Paris or Venetian hotels in L …

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At 10:30 am on Wednesday, August 27th, the UC Berkeley police, plainclothes FBI agents, and an Alameda County sheriff raided at gunpoint the Long Haul, a long-standing community library and info shop.

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While I normally would bypass football related stories, I was intrigued by the beginning of the first line. I liked it because I thought that it rang true, and not just for college football, but for any sports team.

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At the Intel Developer Forum here, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner showed off a number of technologies in computing, robotics, and communication that he cited as evidence that Ray Kurzweil's concept of "singularity," when machine intelligence surpasses human intelli …

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