A major water main broke near the UCLA campus about 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, leaving thousands on campus and across the Westside without water. Jack Powazek, assistant vice chancellor for general services, said the problem had been repaired by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and that the campus water pressure was being restored. Read more...

Group recommends King/Drew oversight change Consultants recommended transferring oversight of troubled Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center from the county health department to an independent board. Read more...

Textbook prices are as outrageous as ever and, as the last year has proven, it will not be an easy battle to reduce book costs. The state Public Interest Research Groups released on Monday a new version of its “Ripoff 101″ report ““ and little has changed since the first report last January. Read more...

As the site of a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. and the shooting of two members of the Black Panthers, black history month has special significance to UCLA. Read more...

Thirty-five years after the appointment of the first black president of a major U.S. university, none of the University of California campuses have yet had a black chancellor. Read more...

Events of misfortune and tragedy sometimes unite people to play dodgeball ““ at least that is the hope of about 11 different campus student organizations that have joined efforts to raise money for tsunami victims through a grade-school pastime. Read more...

Former assemblyman Marco Firebaugh launched his quarter-long tenure as a visiting professor with a lecture focusing primarily on the state of education funding in California. Firebaugh, who served the maximum three terms as an assemblyman representing Bell Gardens, Commerce and South Gate among other cities, repeatedly criticized Gov. Read more...