Want to get paid over $300,000 to do nothing but take a year off after messing up your job? Then you can come work for the University of California. Read more...

In one of the last votes of 2005, Congress showed approval for a bill which would cut funding for government-sponsored student loan programs by $12.7 billion. Read more...

The suspects involved in a Christmas Day shooting at a hookah bar on Broxton Avenue may soon be apprehended, police said Wednesday. A late-night gathering of a group of friends at the Habibi Cafe in Westwood Village was violently interrupted early Sunday morning when a stray bullet shattered the restaurant’s front window, striking a patron in the head. Read more...

Updated 5:20 p.m. The University of California’s former second-ranked official violated UC conflict of interest policies in hiring a business partner for a newly created management position, according to results of a UC investigation released Wednesday. Read more...

The University of California, along with its three corporate partners, has been awarded the new management contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Energy announced Wednesday. Read more...

Chancellor Albert Carnesale, who underwent open heart surgery Tuesday at the UCLA Medical Center, left the intensive care unit Wednesday morning and is expected to make a “rapid recovery,” according to a statement by the chief of cardiac surgery. Read more...