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It would apply to unincorporated parts of the county. Berkeley, where the minimum wage is now $19.61 per hour, would remain free to set its own floor.

ChaHalo, Oakberry, Dropo Sushi, Divan and Hopkins Cafe were among the several new restaurants to recently open in the East Bay.

Alexander Popov, the co-owner of Cornerstone, took a plea agreement in Solano County in which another 12 felony counts of stealing from an elder were dismissed. It’s the latest allegation of financial misconduct in his decades-long history of court battles.

For their book “Normalizing Inequality,” two UC Berkeley professors spoke with dozens of Californians clinging to a middle-class lifestyle — seeking to understand how they make sense of living here.

In his 24-year coaching career, the team won two state championships and seven in Northern California. He also taught students from first through eighth grade and was an assistant principal at all three of Berkeley's middle schools.