The camera zooms in on a 12-year-old girl sitting on a metal cot and she shyly recounts her story of kidnap, rape and being sold into prostitution. Read more...

Many Westwood residents awoke to the smell of smoke Monday morning when an old fraternity house caught fire. The fire was at 611 Gayley Ave., an uninhabited building owned by the Zeta Psi fraternity. Read more...

Proposition 87 is a good idea. Taxing the oil companies to take $4 billion and use it to fund research into alternative energy sources is an amazing plan ““ and it’s not surprising oil companies such as Chevron are pumping millions of dollars into ad campaigns to convince California otherwise. Read more...

For the small group that finds bliss in a cigarette break, a $2.60 proposed tax on each pack would cripple their smoking habits or at the very least lessen the frequency of those breaks. Read more...

You can’t outlaw abortion. You can only outlaw safe abortion. That phrase or some variation on it has hovered around the debate over abortion laws for some time. Read more...

If Proposition 83’s goal is to protect children from molestation, uselessly putting the offenders through hoops will do little to accomplish that. ENDORSEMENTS Click here to see complete list of Daily Bruin endorsements for the 2006 elections We urge UCLA voters to vote no on Proposition 83. Read more...

As college students, the members of the Daily Bruin Editorial Board find it difficult to vote against an act that could greatly improve California’s public education. Read more...