The first results of a UCLA study released last week show that California taxpayers are saving more money than expected due to Proposition 36, which gives first- and second-time drug offenders the option of rehabilitation with probation instead of jail time. Read more...

The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office released today the names of eight of 10 victims killed when an 86-year-old man drove his car through a crowded farmers market in Santa Monica. Read more...

At least eight people were killed and 35 injured within the course of a few seconds, as a car drove through a bustling farmers market in Santa Monica at 1:47 p.m. Read more...

SAN FRANCISCO ““ Citing pressing budget constraints and an increasing probability the state budget crisis will further impact the University of California, a key committee of the UC Board of Regents voted to raise student fees by 25 percent. Read more...

As the national unemployment rate rose from a nine-year high of 6.1 percent in May to 6.4 percent in June, many UCLA graduates contributed to the rising percentages. Read more...

In hopes of limiting additional student fee increases, University of California students have recently taken their voices to Sacramento and have been pressuring the state legislature to bring the UC system’s funding back to sufficient levels. Read more...

When the UC Board of Regents met in May to debate then-tentative student fee increases, they were also met by protesting students from six UC campuses. Read more...