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In this May 20, 2010, photo, American hikers Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal sit at the Esteghlal Hotel in Tehran, Iran.

DeJean Middle School's corridors and classrooms were abuzz Saturday not with algebra and English, but with giving young people a helping hand into adulthood.

Student and Community Groups rally against the decision of Albany City Council to approve development proposal on the Gill Tract Farm Berkeley, CA -- On March 5th, Albany's City Council chambers were unable to accommodate the crowd that showed up to speak against a commercial development plan proposed for the Gill Tract Farm, a piece of land ... (more)

While I was reading an article in The New York Times about conflicts of interest in academia, I remembered a column I wrote a couple of years ago.

Oakland artist Carolyn Jean Martin 's exhibit "Incidents and Autobiographies"opened at The Jerry Adams Gallery at Berkeley Community College, 2050 Center St, in Berkeley, California runs through April 11, 2014.

Both Butler and Khalidi recently had events canceled at Jewish institutions after critics raised objections to their views on Israel.

Frances Green, a Richmond resident, was last seen at the North Berkeley Senior Center near the intersection of Hearst Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Way at 12:55 p.m. She is 4-foot-11 and weighs 130 pounds.

Frances Green, 70, was last seen at the North Berkeley Senior Center at 12:55 p.m. on Friday, said police spokeswoman Jennifer Coats.

The remains of an automobile is pictured on the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir near San Jose, California January 21, 2014.

Preschoolers can be smarter than college students at figuring out how unusual toys and gadgets work because they're more flexible and less biased than adults in their ideas about cause and effect, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Edinburgh.

Maria Sharpf, 39, of Willow Glen, searches for a book in the true crime section at BookBuyers store in Mountain View, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.

By Douglas Main One way to avoid getting sick while traveling is to only eat fruit that you peel yourself, since plants can filter out bacteria and prevent it from traveling throughout their tissues.

Nitrogen-vacancy centers -- flaws in a diamond's crystal lattice that produce color -- have received much attention for their sensitivity to magnetic fields.

Asked earlier this week if Russia had violated international law with its incursion into Crimea, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, offered this response to a roomful of befuddled reporters: "I want to point out that we are aware of the historical facts and realistic complexity of the Ukrainian issue.

Fuselier was found dead in his apartment at 1121 Addison St., east of San Pablo Avenue, about 11 a.m. last Friday, police said.

A 16-year-old Oakland boy who set fire to an agender youth on an AC Transit bus last year was ordered to trial on aggravated mayhem, assault and hate crime charges on Thursday upon waiving his right to a preliminary hearing.

The city council and mayor here are among the highest paid elected officials in the state for similar sized cities, according to a recent salary survey conducted by the city manager.

According to scientific research, there's a strong case to be made for not being a jerk.

A memorial service is set Sunday for a Berkeley firefighter killed in a tractor accident last week, a fire official said.

On his way to and from school, Nicholas Reed navigates a gauntlet of advertisements for sugar-spiked alcoholic beverages, e-cigarettes, and flavored tobacco products.