SAN FRANCISCO – Trading in their faded jeans for three-piece grays and the raunchy “camp KPFA” tents that straggled along Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Berkeley last summer for the more sedate environs of San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club, community-radio activists once again went on the offensive. -more-

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Thursday, Sept. 21

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My son is alive and still captive -more-

Who wants to be the Berkeley’s Tiger Woods? -more-

An emotional Jonas Jusay, who lost his parents and his sister in the tragic Aug. 20 fire at 2160 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, gave a stirring plea to the City Council Tuesday in support of a resolution from the Associated Students of the University of California asking the city to regularly inspect apartment buildings and rent houses to ensure compliance with building codes. -more-

Establishing a Youth Center in Berkeley has been talked about for many years. -more-

Freshman hoopster Lawson leaves school -more-

The voices of south and west Berkeley residents were in the house at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. -more-

You could call H.H. Bliss a pioneer. No, he didn’t cross the Mississippi in a covered wagon. And he didn’t break any longstanding racial barriers. And, for that matter, he didn’t manage to revolutionize the fields of science, medicine or sport. On September 14, 1899 the 68-year-old New York City real estate broker was helping a woman off a streetcar when a cabdriver cut a corner a little too tightly and ran him over. -more-

A man was stabbed for no apparent reason at the corner of Adeline Street and Ashby Avenue Tuesday night about 10:20 p.m. -more-

After a three-week investigation, it is still not known whether there was a smoke detector in the central Berkeley house that burned last month and took the lives of three people, Fire Chief Reginald Garcia said Wednesday. -more-