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The Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, arrested a Berkeley woman Wednesday in connection with a series of attempted kidnappings, according to a Nixle alert issued Thursday.

The Berkeley Police Accountability Board met Wednesday evening to open an investigation into a recent death under the jurisdiction of the Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, a fight at Berkeley High School, policy concerns and to elect a new chair and vice chair.

Berkeley Police Department officers arrested a suspect on suspicion of committing a hate crime April 8.

Hours after leaving a discussion on street safety March 16, Berkeley street safety advocate, Jackie Erbe was severely injured in a collision on Ninth Street and Channing Way.

In efforts to ensure safer pedestrian traffic, Berkeley City Council approved multiple pedestrian improvements near Downtown Berkeley and the UC Berkeley campus. 

An apartment building in the 2600 block of Etna Street in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood caught fire at 1:50 a.m. Nov. 16, one of several recent fires in the city.

Protesters demonstrated outside of Berkeley Police Department headquarters in support of Black Lives Matter on Monday, after which vandalism was reported.

Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, officers arrested one suspect and are searching for another — both in connection with a laptop robbery that occurred in Downtown Berkeley on Sunday, as seen in a YouTube video posted on BPD’s YouTube channel, which was first reported on by Berkeleyside.

The city made a splash with its decision to fund Berkeley’s West Campus Pool, located on the corner of Browning and Addison streets, allowing it to be open daily year-round starting in October.

A UC Berkeley student who was the victim of an attack on April 28, 2018, testified Monday in the ongoing trial of Alphonso McInnis, who is accused of both this attack and of the sexual assault of a then-15-year-old girl less than two weeks earlier.