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Update: Motorcycle rider dead after crash near I-80 at Gilman
Update, Nov. 12, 2:45 a.m. The motorcycle rider who crashed while coming off the freeway in Berkeley on Wednesday night has died, authorities report. Additional updates are forthcoming. Original story: A man was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after crashing his motorcycle near the freeway in Berkeley on Wednesday night. Limited details were available. The rider, who appeared to be in his 30s, exited eastbound Interstate 80 at Gilman Street at about 8:30 p.m. before crashing at Eastshore Highway , according to emergency dispatches reviewed by The Scanner. Arriving firefighters found the rider on the ground. He was unresponsive and had been intubated before arriving at the hospital, according to early reports. The Berkeley Fire Department rushed the man to Highland Hospital, the regional trauma center, with lights and sirens. His condition was grave, with concerns that he might not survive. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the collision. Based on evidence at the scene, the motorcycle appeared to have come off the freeway offramp, struck a raised curb and traveled through a landscaped traffic island before coming to rest in a nearby median, short of the roundabout. Authorities taped off the pedestrian crossing near the downed motorcycle
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Van fire closes westbound Richmond Bridge during morning commute
Last update: 10:55 a.m. Thursday, November 12, 2026 All lanes of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge are now open after a van fire closed the westbound direction during the Thursday morning commute, causing a massive traffic backup. Callers to the California Highway Patrol dispatch reported a white Ford
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Fat Dog, owner of Berkeley’s Subway Guitars and a legend of the city, dies at 80
Stapled to the baby blue front wall of Subway Guitars is a page of sheet music for the 1942 standard “There Will Never Be Another You.” It’s unclear whether it was intended as an elegy for Fat Dog, the founder and owner of the Berkeley shop that has served as a musical mecca for generations. But as news of his death on Oct. 30 at the age of 80 spread on social media, it seems like a perfect fanfare for a man who embodied Berkeley’s countercultural contradictions by turning his creative passion into a welcoming, self-sustaining empire that elevated everyone who crossed the threshold.