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Top Berkeley news: City bans sale of flavored tobacco and e-cigarettes; '13 Reasons Why’ film shoot

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Published on August 07, 2019
Top Berkeley news: City bans sale of flavored tobacco and e-cigarettes; '13 Reasons Why’ film shootPhoto: Antonin FELS/Unsplash

Here's the most recent top news you may have missed in Berkeley.

Berkeley bans the sale of flavored tobacco and e-cigarettes

Officials hope a new law will help keep popular, dangerous products out of kids' hands.

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Crew on location in Berkeley for ‘13 Reasons Why’ film shoot

The Netflix show has come in for its share of criticism, not least for its graphic depiction of issues such as suicide and rape.

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Cigarette fire displaces 3 from Berkeley senior housing; Mo'Joe closed for now

Three residents of a senior housing complex have been displaced by a fire authorities believe began Sunday with a visitor's lit cigarette. Fire damage also temporarily closed Mo'Joe Café.

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Remembering Jerome (Jay) Singer, UC Berkeley physicist, pioneer of magnetic imaging

The longtime Berkeley resident and ping pong aficionado, who was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his research on magnetic imaging, died at 97.

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