Deceased voter throws election into runoff OCILLA, Ga. “”mdash; Every last vote counts ““ even if it’s the voter’s last vote. A city council race in south Georgia was thrown into a runoff by the absentee ballot of a woman who died on election day ““ and not the night before, as officials first believed. Read more...

Caught in the midst of the file-sharing debate, a little music store down the lane is surviving while other Westwood record stores have gone out of business. Read more...

After the UCLA faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of retaining the quarter system rather than switching to semesters this past spring, campus officials say the quarter v. Read more...

Wildfires that ravaged Southern California over the past two weeks have burnt a sizeable hole in the state’s pocketbook to go along with more than 750,000 acres of charred land. Read more...

Shelma Jun has been functioning on little sleep this past week. And it’s not because of midterms. Jun, a third-year business economics student, is on the executive board responsible for planning the Model United Nations Summit, which will begin at UCLA today. Read more...

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Top administrators at the University of California said the university may compete for the contract to manage the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the event of the lab being put up for bidding. Read more...