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Lafayette Restaurant May Be Closed for Months Due to Fire
Italian restaurant Postino in Lafayette may be closed for months due to a grease fire that damaged the kitchen and part of the attic.

mark.nero@patch.com.
Italian restaurant Postino in Lafayette may be closed for months due to a grease fire that damaged the kitchen and part of the attic.

Thomas Shimamura, 32, of Oakland has plead guilty to killing a 23-year-old Vallejo man in Albany a year ago.
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University of California at Berkeley police said in a community advisory Wednesday morning that the campus had received a bomb threat.
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