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Przemyslaw Jeziorski, the UC Berkeley professor shot and killed July 4, 2025, in Athens while visiting Greece to see his two young children and finalize legal arrangements for future visitation. Courtesy: UC Berkeley<\/p>\nPrzemyslaw Jeziorski, the UC Berkeley professor shot and killed July 4, 2025, in Athens while visiting Greece to see his two young children and finalize legal arrangements for future visitation. Courtesy: UC Berkeley<\/p>\n
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Squatters have taken over the Berkeley home of the UC Berkeley professor killed during a custody dispute in Greece, the family of Przemyslaw Jeziorski says, and it\u2019s been difficult to remove them under the state\u2019s eviction process. (NBC Bay Area<\/a>, SFGATE<\/a>)<\/p>\n A Berkeley woman is raising money to support family members affected by the Venezuela earthquakes. Two of her aunts were inside the R\u00edo Mar Building when it collapsed and are missing. A cousin was on the 14th floor rooftop and survived. (KRON4<\/a>, GoFundMe<\/a>)<\/p>\n Abraham Chabon, a New York University student who grew up in Berkeley and is the son of two well-known local authors, has pleaded guilty to a choking charge in Manhattan, resolving a case in which he initially faced a rape charge that prosecutors later dropped for lack of proof. (NY Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n The city of Berkeley has released its first annual whistleblower report. (Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n A man has been charged with attempted rape after following a woman into the elevator of her downtown Berkeley apartment building. (SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p>\n A former music teacher at Berkeley\u2019s private Bayhill High School has been sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting an autistic high school boy last year. (Berkeley Scanner<\/a>)<\/p>\n A cannabis dispensary in South Berkeley was robbed Friday night by several masked men with guns. (Berkeley Scanner<\/a>)<\/p>\n Remembering UC Berkeley student Harshita Nair, who died in June at age 21. (Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n A new biography of the UC Berkeley physicist Luis Alvarez. (London Review of Books<\/a>)<\/p>\n A personal remembrance of Bob Spear. (Joey Yi Zhou<\/a>)<\/p>\n A guide to the \u201cBackrooms\u201d \u2014 liminal spaces with an innate sense of nostalgia and dread \u2014 on the Cal campus, inspired by the hit sci-fi horror flick. (Daily Cal<\/a>) <\/p>\n Meet a UC Berkeley grad grappling with AI and his future. (KQED<\/a>)<\/p>\n