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A Berkeley police sergeant has been sued for alleged physical assault and use of racist slurs against a Black man, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Crumpacker graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English in 1977. During his time on campus, Crumpacker was very involved with The Daily Californian, serving as sports editor.

Tenants in the cities of Berkeley and Oakland have struggled to afford housing as a result of high-security deposits that present a high initial barrier to renting. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a Senate bill, which would have allowed several Californian cities to open safe injection and consumption sites.

As UC Berkeley returns to in-person instruction and students upload their vaccine cards to eTang, campus health administrators are unable to verify all the vaccine records, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Ellen Weis, author, Museum of Modern Mythology director and Berkeley publicist, died of brain cancer on July 27 at age 64.

During a visit to the city of Oakland on Thursday, a 54-year-old Berkeley resident allegedly assaulted California Gov. Gavin Newsom as Newsom sought to promote small businesses in light of the state's recent reopening. 

As multiple COVID-19 virus variants are being detected in the state of California, Alameda County health officials identified possible cases of a new variant of the coronavirus that was discovered in the United Kingdom.

Gerald “Jerry” Lubenow, a former director of publications for the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, died July 21 at the age of 80.

The Building Name Review Committee spent almost three years circulating surveys, inviting public comment and reading reports from an internal Berkeley Law committee.