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I worked many years as a staff writer and editor at the San Francisco Chronicle until April of 2009, when I switched to freelancing. I then wrote for the Los Angeles Times and other publications, and I also took on editing assignments for UC Berkeley and the United Nations.
Being an East Bay reporter for Patch brings my career full circle in the East Bay. My first bylines appeared in the East Bay Review of the Performing Arts. I next worked as a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian while studying at UC Berkeley, where I obtained a master's in journalism. I was a reporter at the Contra Costa Independent, Berkeley Gazette and San Francisco Examiner before moving to the Chronicle, where I worked several years in the Berkeley bureau and in the main East Bay bureau in Oakland.
Here's a chance to get some gentle exercise amid lots of nature and beautiful scenery, not to mention a free trial guide and organic cotton t-shirt (while supplies last) – the East Bay Regional Park District "Trails Challenge" program.
Here's a chance to get some gentle exercise amid lots of nature and beautiful scenery, not to mention a free trial guide and organic cotton t-shirt (while supplies last) – the East Bay Regional Park District "Trails Challenge" program.
Albany police will deploy "saturation patrols" on Saturday to stop and arrest those who are driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, the department announced. It is part of the police department's "ongoing traffic safety campaign."
The comment stream – a one-stop list showing reader comments with the most recent first – has returned by popular demand to the Patch homepage. Many Albany Patch readers urged that it be restored.
A man was forced to lie on the ground and robbed of his wallet and cell phone by five males near Channing Way and Fulton Street two blocks south of the UC Berkeley campus early Saturday morning, police said.
A man and a woman, both 21, were robbed at gunpoint by four young males while walking near the intersection of University and Shattuck avenues in Berkeley early Saturday morning, according to police.
The Albany police logs for July 17-18 includes two home burglaries, one on Thousand Oaks and one on Stannage where the burglar was interrupted, more graffiti cases and another person warned about going through recycling bins.
UC Berkeley researchers this week launched a smartphone app called "BOINC" to harness and combine the unused computing power of smartphones around the world into a virtual supercomputer to help solve world problems and expand frontiers of science.
The skipper of sailboat berthed in Berkeley, David McCormick, was ordered today, Wednesday, to be arraigned Aug. 8 on charges of sending a false distress call, failing to "heave to" and assaulting a Coast Guard officer who boarded his boat.
A display of a real gun and an Airsoft pellet gun challenged visitors to distinguish between the two at the Albany Police Department's "Safety Palooza" open house on July 21, 2013. Can you tell the difference in the attached photos?
The Berkeley police log for July 7-20 includes three armed robberies: a jogger who was struck at Aquatic Park, two people on Durant who were seriously injured with one sent to a hospital, and one on Cedar. All included cell phones.
Berkeley police tonight, Tuesday, confirmed that the man fatally shot on Derby Street on July 17 was Jermaine Davis, 26, who was the intended target four years earlier when his brother was gunned down on a Berkeley street.
The Albany police logs for July 15-16 include a stolen vehicle, a recovered stolen truck, three teens throwing darts on Albany Hill, a woman with a stroller warned against taking recycling and a troublesome man with a table leg strapped to his chest.
A 9-year-old boy who disappeared from his North Oakland home around 11:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, was found safe by Oakland police shortly before 7 p.m., police said.
BART is showing a mock version of the interior of its planned new car of the future at the MacArthur station between 2-7 p.m. today, Tuesday, through Friday.
BART is showing a mock version of the interior of its planned new car of the future at the MacArthur station between 2-7 p.m. today, Tuesday, through Friday.
At least six cars and two structures were tagged with spray paint in Albany Saturday night or early Sunday morning, with six on one block of Carmel Avenue, police said. No suspects have been identified.
The Albany Planning & Zoning Commission on Wednesday will review the 4-story, 177-unit senior housing component of UC Berkeley's proposed commercial development next to University Village in Albany.
Albany Police Chief Mike McQuiston told visitors at the police department's "Safety Palooza" open house Sunday that Albany is likely to see a boost in crime this year over last year, the second yearly increase, after a several years' decline.
The Albany Planning & Zoning Commission on Wednesday will review the 4-story, 177-unit senior housing component of UC Berkeley's proposed commercial development next to University Village in Albany.
