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A few East Bay residents name what they're thankful for in the accompanying video. We'd like to know what you give thanks for.
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Some shoppers can’t wait to fight the crowds on Friday so they get full of turkey and head to the mall on Thursday night.
Unemployment in Alameda County dropped to 7 percent in September, down sharply from 7.8 percent in July, according to state data. The Bay Area is seeing some of the lowest rates in California.
The first Berkeley Half Marathon takes place Sunday with a 13.1-mile course that begins in front of Old City Hall, passes the UC Berkeley campus and goes down University Avenue before looping around the Marina and finishing at Golden Gate Fields.
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The Berkeley Police and Fire Departments are accepting toys for underprivileged Berkeley children under the U.S. Marines' "Toys for Tots" program. To receive toys, families can register by phone or at the Police Department.
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We know being a mom or dad is one of the most important jobs in the world. And really, is there anything closer to your heart than family?
Scientists this month are attempting what's never been done before – to trap mountain lions, take DNA samples and attach radio collars for a survey of how many of the big cats we co-exist with and how they are related to each other.
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It’s the month when men grow facial hair in honor of men’s health --and so they can tickle the person they’re kissing. We want your Mo Bro pictures on our new Berkeley Movember blog.
Fifty turkey experts will answer questions on meal prep and turkey emergencies this holiday season.
It's not on the menu, but customers can give baristas a special recipe that will produce a drink similar to the beverage enjoyed by the fictional witches and wizards from the Harry Potter books.
Cub and Boy Scouts along with members of Lions Clubs from Albany, Berkeley, Crockett and El Cerrito placed flags at the graves of veterans at Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito on Veterans Day today, Monday.
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A football dream comes true for a high school senior in New York.
A UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology, Randy Schekman, is a co-winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries in cell transport systems, the Nobel committee announced today, Monday.
Emily White of Berkeley was honored as a White House "Champion of Change" in disaster preparedness at a Washington, D.C., ceremony on Sept. 24, 2013. White is an American Red Cross regional director of preparedness based in San Francisco.
Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, and other chefs have started a petition campaign asking Gov. Jerry Brown to place a moratorium on fracking in California. They cite dangers to water and agriculture.
A UC Berkeley graduate, Elaine Dang of San Diego, was among the many injured in the deadly terrorist attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, this past weekend. She posted on Twitter from her hospital bed that she is "OK" and "recovering."
Carl Haber, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory responsible for groundbreaking work in restoring some of the earliest known sound recordings, is one of 24 winners of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowships.
Urban farming is hardly new in Berkeley. Historic photos and documents on display at the Berkeley History Century dial back time to reveal a community that grew up with chickens, cows, gardens and – until the temperance movement won out – saloons.
Marcus Semien, who played baseball at St. Mary's College High and UC Berkeley, makes his Major Leagues debut tonight, Tuesday, when he takes the field with the Chicago White Sox.
An Albany family says they were one of three vehicles tied for first to cross the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge when it opened to traffic about 10:15 p.m. Monday night. Their accompanying video shows them just behind the CHP escort.
Berkeley may still be the home of the hippies in the imagination of mainstream America, but it fell to 8th place in a recent ranking of "best U.S. cities for hippies," based on pot presence, tie-dye culture, hippie festivals and other factors.
The accompanying YouTube video captures the dramatic and exciting moment this morning, Saturday, when the 13-story signature building of the Cal State East Bay campus came toppling down.
In a short video interview posted this week, Chez Panisse proprietor Alice Waters discusses the wide range of changes introduced in the famed 42-year-old restaurant as part of the renovation following this spring's fire and temporary closure.
Robert Hass, a UC Berkeley English professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate, has won the 2013 PEN America award for essays, according to campus and PEN announcements Wednesday.
A motorist who saw a "discombobulated" black kitten on the shoulder of Interstate 880 in Oakland – six inches from the passing wheels of semi-trailer trucks – pulled over at risk to his own safety and rescued the little creature.
The "Occupy the Farm" group that has occupied UC Berkeley "Gill Tract" property in Albany several times said today, Friday, that it will join other groups on Saturday to begin a planting project on the property guided by UC Professor Miguel Altieri.
Einstein said nothing can exceed the speed of light. UC Berkeley researchers say (in effect), "Not so fast, Albert – we better check." Their new experiments hope to resolve conflict between the general theory of relativity and the Standard Model.
The comment stream – a one-stop list showing reader comments with the most recent first – has returned by popular demand to the Patch homepage.
Kensington Circus Pub, a hangout for Anglophiles on Colusa Circle less than a block from the Berkeley border, will celebrate the latest birth of a potential future king of England, Prince George of Cambridge, on Sunday with a special roast supper.
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Amy Chua sparked an uproar with her call for strict Chinese-style parenting in "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." Now "Tiger Babies Strike Back" by Cal alum Kim Wong Keltner and UC Berkeley research claim better results with moderation.
A study of giant lizard fossils that sat untouched for many years in a drawer at UC Berkeley suggests that global warming could transform today's pet-sized lizards into creatures as big as Komodo dragons.