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NBC Bay Area Investigates an unusual legal fight involving an international student at Berkeley who ended up shackled and deported. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken tells us Cal admits it is in the wrong, but says it’s immune from his lawsuit.

University of California, Berkeley, gymnast Emi Watterson accomplished the near impossible when she got a perfect score for her uneven bars routine on Saturday. But to make matters more exciting, she gave her top-notch performance while wearing a mask. Watterson, a senior at UC Berkeley from Brisbane, Australia, swung gracefully from one bar to the other, hitting multiple handstands in…

A former UC Berkeley student is accusing members of the university’s football team and coaching staff of sexual harassment. Paige Cornelius posted the detailed accusations on her Facebook page last Wednesday, saying they happened while she was working for the team’s Sports Medicine program last season.

The Medical Examiner of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department have opened a suspicious death investigation into Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who died Friday night at the age of 59, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit confirmed.

Olympic gold medalist and UC Berkeley graduate Nathan Adrian announced Thursday that he’s going through cancer treatment. The competitive swimmer announced on social media that he recently learned about his testicular cancer after a visit to the doctor to get his flu shot.

The university compared three types of mice: those without the ability to smell, those with and those that had a boosted sense of smell.

As anticipating fans wait in agony for the premiere of the seventh season of “Game of Thrones,” students in the East Bay will be touching up on their Dothraki and High Valyrian vocabulary, literally.

The University of California at Berkeley students who invited Ann Coulter to speak on campus are threatening to sue the university if it doesn’t find a proper time and venue for the conservative pundit to speak next week. Harmeet Dhillon, who represents the Berkeley College Republicans, said in letters sent Friday to UC Berkeley’s Interim Vice Chancellor Stephen Sutton and...

In what has become an eerily familiar scene in Berkeley, supporters and detractors of President Donald Trump on Saturday exchanged blows, burned flags, and set off fireworks at opposing rallies, resulting in 20 arrests and 11 injuries, police said.

A Swedish heavy metal band scheduled to rock the Metro Operahouse in Oakland Saturday night didn’t even see the stage. Marianne Favro reports.

A Swedish heavy metal band scheduled to rock the Metro Operahouse in Oakland Saturday night didn’t even see the stage.

An unwelcome Milo Yiannopoulos whipped UC Berkeley students into a frenzy on Wednesday, triggering violent protests and forcing officials to cancel his speech and lock down the campus.

A Rhode Island court has ordered a scrapyard to remove the remnants of a Russian submarine once used as a set for a Harrison Ford movie from the Providence River. The hull of the submarine, known as Juliett 484, rests mere feet from the shore in Providence. After the Cold War, the sub was sold and used as a restaurant...

The Trump administration began cleaning house Thursday in the State Department by ousting four top officials. They are Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy, two assistant secretaries, Joyce Barr and Michele Bond, and Gentry Smith, who heads the department’s Office of Foreign Missions, NBC News has confirmed.

The girlfriend of an Oakland fire victim experienced a “Facebook miracle” in a time of crippling grief when hundreds of social media users helped her track down a year-old photograph of the two of them.

The University of California at Berkeley has suspended a course amid accusations that it shared anti-Semitic viewpoints and was designed to indoctrinate students against Israel.

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Friday that Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe and held in Antioch by a parolee for 18 years, cannot hold federal parole officers liable for failing to supervise her captor.

Someone could be walking around with, or might be hiding or trying to sell, a 300-pound statue of a 20th century Cal crew coach.

Researchers at the school’s CITRIS lab are working hard to create low-cost, customizable prosthetic made from 3-D printers, according to the engineering department’s magazine. For an 8-year-old girl named Sophie, their work means that she’ll soon be able to climb the monkey bars at school.