A Berkeley man accused of killing a Danville teen during an attempted marijuana robbery is scheduled for trial Dec. 5.  

After listening to the partially paralyzed victim Hamed Mirabdal, 24, of Moraga, speak from his wheelchair about the suffering the crime has caused him and from Mirabdal's father who tearfully said his son clings to life every day, Blake Mastro showed no remorse as he stood before the court and said he was wrongly convicted.  

The auction offering will include more than 20,000 pages of written documents, including the original handwritten and typewritten versions of Ted Kaczynski's manifesto, and proceeds from the auction will be used to compensate his victims.  

UC Berkeley senior Austin Whitney, whose spinal cord was severed three years ago, will use a device built by campus engineers to walk across the stage at Saturday's commencement ceremony.  

MacArthur Fellows from East Bay give glimpse of ideas that helped earn six-figure grants  

Alameda County residents can win up to $500 for diverting recylables, compostables from landfill  

community City Commons Club of Berkeley -- Noon Luncheon, with Ms. Betty Soskin, U.S. National Park Service Ranger at Rosie The Riveter National Historic Park, 11:20 a.  

'The Switch'I'm not a big fan of Chardonnay. The over-oaking of most Chardonnays is a viticultural race to the bottom, with vintners concocting ever more intense wood flavors.  

I'm not one to live in the past, but when the phone rang outside an ice-cream parlor at the University of Oregon, I immediately slipped into college mode.  

Seventy-five years ago the Shamrock Night Club on Geary Street in San Francisco burned. Four people, including two Berkeley residents, died.According to the May 13, 1936 Berkeley Daily Gazette, the fire started when a patron grabbed the arm of a "torch singer.  

Voters were deceivedThe lawsuit featured in your April 29 front-page article, "Officials blast lawsuit against library project," is about misuse of the 2008 Measure FF bond funding to renovate Berkeley's branch libraries.  

Team will compete in state championships Sunday.  

Cal Performances -- The Cripple of Inishmann, presented by Druid, Galway's famed theater company, 8 p.m. May 13, and 2 and 8 p.m. May 14, 3 $68, Zellerbach Playhouse, 510-642-9988, www.  

FRIDAY, APRIL 29 ROBBERY -- At around 1:48 p.m., two men in their 20s accosted a man who was walking home from a nearby bus stop at Delaware Street and McGee Avenue.  

There's a great opportunity this summer for teens aged 13 to 17 to meet other teens interested in protecting the environment, earn community service credit, participate in habitat restoration, and enjoy recreational activities in the East Bay Regional Parks as well.  

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Four months after his wife died mysteriously in a Thai hospital, a Berkeley man is still trying to find out what caused her death.  

Kayla Carpenter made the tough decision to leave her Northern California tribe for college. Now, with years of graduate school ahead of her, she yearns to use her knowledge to help her people.  

Miriam Hashemi could have satisfied her college field work requirement in Oakland or Richmond, but the graduating UC Berkeley senior had more exotic ambitions.  

Two of the accused, still jailed in Tehran, did not appear in court as expected; authorities gave no explanation  

No one really knows the stress on the imprisoned men, but the stress on their families has been unbearable: There has been lost jobs, illness, sleepless nights and constant worry, the mothers said.

Lawyer: Iran spy trial for three UC Berkeley grads not held