Saturday Links: Berkeley Police Arrest Man in Texas Connected to Seven East Bay Cold Cases

  • Berkeley police arrested a man in Texas who is suspected of seven kidnappings and sexual assaults in Berkeley and Oakland between 1994 and 2008. The breakthrough in the case was through a state grant that funded the processing of over 500 cold sexual assault cases. [Bay Area News Group]
  • BART is reportedly in the process of cleaning metallic dust off the insulator caps along its electrified third rail. The agency stopped cleaning the dust in 2020 out of fear of damaging the insulator, which is likely the cause of an explosion in August. [NBC Bay Area]
  • A man was killed and a woman was critically injured when a teenage driver struck them in a Gilroy crosswalk Friday after they had dropped their kids off at school. [KTVU]

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