LA residents mourn gang violence victims A mock funeral procession of hearses and cars rolled through South Los Angeles and neighboring cities to mourn those killed in the gang-ridden areas. Read more...

Universities are supposed to be incubators of free speech and creative exploration. But the administration of Arizona State University decided to trample on those freedoms by threatening the student newspaper after it printed a magazine cover depicting a naked breast with a barbell piercing. Read more...

A female student died late Thursday night in Dykstra Hall in what police have said is an apparent suicide. Amanda Hafleigh, known on her ultimate frisbee team as “Chip,” was found in her room on the third floor of Dykstra Hall. Read more...

Burial arrangements made for soldier VENTURA “”mdash; Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas H. Anderson will be buried here after military officials, settling an argument between his divorced parents, granted custody of his body to his father. Read more...

Despite a stream of security breeches and bad press, the UC should not simply bow out of the bidding process to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory after overseeing it for 60 years. Read more...