KQED Radio News

A portrait of former Bay Area Congressman Norman Mineta now hangs in Washington’s National Portrait Gallery. Jacob Fenston reports.

A third day of protests at UC Berkeley as students, their teachers, and university employees continue to fight a combination of deep budget cuts and steep fee increases. Today’s action centered on Wheeler Hall, a major classroom building that a group of students occupied early this morning. Jacob Fenston has been covering the Wheeler Hall protest for KQED, and files this report.

Four people are dead and four critically injured after another week of gun violence in Oakland. One of those victims—the city’s 73^rd homicide this year—was active in an anti-violence movement.

The Budweiser plant in Fairfield is the second largest private employer in Solano County. Not everyone’s happy the “Great American Lager” will soon be in foreign hands.