By Robert Salonga Daily Bruin Staff Officials in Isla Vista, a perennial Halloween hotspot for both the UC Santa Barbara community and its visitors, are taking strides this holiday to discourage out-of-town travelers and to eliminate the party atmosphere associated with the school for more than a decade. Read more...

By Marcelle Richards Daily Bruin Senior Staff Anna Nelson spent her youth carrying a Bible in one hand and a spell book in the other. But this Catholic schoolgirl-turned-witch isn’t going to mount a broomstick and sail off into the moonlight tonight. Read more...

UCLA student wins film prize UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate screenwriting student Beverly Newfeld won first prize in the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for her love story “Brown Widow.” The 46th annual awards, to recognize excellence in dramatic writing, were announced Monday by Samuel Goldwyn Jr., president of the Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, in a ceremony at UCLA. Read more...

The Associated Press Northern alliance fighters fire a Soviet-made D-30 howitzer near the opposition-controlled village of AI-Khanum, Takhar province, Monday, with a Soviet-made BM-21 rocket launcher in the background. Read more...

By Dexter Gauntlett Daily Bruin Reporter To address Mexico’s transition in 2001 to its first non-Partido Revolucionario Institucional government in 70 years, UCLA hosted an all-day forum of political leaders, journalists and scholars of Mexican descent Monday. Read more...

By David Espo The Associated Press WASHINGTON “”mdash; A New Jersey woman became the nation’s 15th confirmed anthrax victim Monday and spores turned up in at least three additional government buildings in the capital in a slow, steady spread of bioterrorism. Read more...