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On February 14, Students and faculty petition Morgan Stanley to 'stop breaking our heart' and end business practice that removes $1.6 million from school district annually. ...

Controversy is raging around an attempt by the district to remove Laney food cart vendors. Sahki Sadiqyar and Mohammed ]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 1.2784844 Laney Tower Online Sahki Sadiqyar and Mohammed Michael Sanders and Rina Shaikh-Lesko - Tower Staff Writers Laney Tower Online http://www.laneytower.com/swim-team-begins-season-1.2784767 Chelsea Riggs - Tower Staff Writer

Laney College head swimming coach Sarah Stretch has a brand new team this year. ...

The Laney College baseball team started the season off in impressive fashion, winning its first five games before losing 5-4 in 10 innings to Monterey Peninsula College on Feb. 11. ...

In a game that very little went right for the Laney women's basketball team, sophomore guard Sonia Aguilar scored 19 points to lead the host Eagles to a 58-48 victory over Solano College on Feb. 15 in a Bay Valley Conference semifinal game. ...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the movie 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and in the time since the first screening its popularity has scarcely waned. It's not hard to imagine that it was so well received as the novel of the same name on which it ...

All households maintain a delicate equilibrium. In Aurora Theater's new production, 'Body Awareness,' that equilibrium is disturbed for Joyce (Jeri Lynn Cohen) and Phyllis (Amy Resnick), a lesbian...

On Feb. 2, the students of Edna Brewer elementary school began celebrating Black History Month with the teachings of legendary hip-hop artist and world activist Lawrence Krisna Parker, better known...

The Peralta District has asked Police Services to immediately increase patrols at Laney College and the District Administrative Office following a string of recent incidents. Most recently, ...

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Hats off to Foundation Scholars Award and Faculty Grant recipients ...

Security raises alarm Editor and -I am currently a sophomore at Laney College and a concerned night time student. I recently read your article 'petty Theft Auto in Laney Lot' and it is a very scary article. As a female I feel that I am a little more at...

Facebook has announced plans to start selling it's stock on Wall Street. Facebook will now make about $120 per user by selling member information online.The company has been estimated to be worth at least $100 billion (putting Facebook into the same ma...

Feb. 9th, fifty students and admirers packed into room E207 of Laney College for a lecture on efforts that would allow inhabitants of the Bay Area ...

The Oakland police received a call about an explosion from concerned residents of a local community on Feb. 6. When police arrived there were no signs of an explosion, just hundreds of bricks that had fallen from the Express Market and liquor store loc...

Since 2003, the Oakland Police Department has been under Federal court monitoring instituted by the courts in the infamous 'Oakland Riders' case of 2000. On January 24, 2011, Judge Henderson issued a new order to increase federal monitoring. ...

Peralta District Chancellor Wise Allen announced Tuesday, Feb. 14, that the district should prepare itself for a possible 15 percent reduction in discretionary funding for the coming year. The bul...