Kids-East Bay Through September 19

"BERKELEY OLD TIME MUSIC CONVENTION," -- through Sept. 12. A variety of concerts and dances suitable for the whole family. Events take place at various venues; check website for details.

Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Start-Up WhipCar Is Zooming Down ZipCar's Lane

  Car-share clubs are nothing new, but WhipCar isn't a car club. Rather, it's a peer-to-peer carhire scheme that launched in the U.K. four months ago and now has over 600 vehicles at its disposal. Relationships are formed between lender and lessee to the point where bottles of champagne are given as thank-yous. It's a canny idea that, as Vinay Gupta explained to me, came about when he and co ...

September 1, 2010

Woman suffers minor injuries after wreck 9/1/2010 11:19:00 AM warren less than 1 hour ago: I wonder if Ms Rangel was talking on her cell phone at the time?????????

News Briefs

Gun Found — A man called the Ponca City Police at 7:06 a.m. Monday to say his wife called him about finding a gun in the roadway in the 800 block of East Central Avenue.

Cold case: Grad student vanishes in Costa Rica

American graduate student David Gimelfarb vanished a year ago while hiking in Costa Rica. He is one of three men who disappeared in Costa Rica in 2009.