With U.S. Senate elections coinciding with the presidential election, voters in a number of states, including California, will have the opportunity to elect senators this year. Read more...

University police announced Tuesday they were investigating a possible hate incident that occurred in an Asian American studies class last week. The investigation began after Vu Long Trinh, a teaching assistant in Asian American Studies 20, told police that petitions students in his class signed Thursday supporting the removal of Taco Bell had been vandalized with ethnic slurs and derogatory remarks. Read more...

Disadvantaged students in four Los Angeles high schools have the opportunity to meet one on one with UCLA undergraduates for tutoring and college counseling, thanks to a $75,000 grant from the SBC Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the telecommunications company. Read more...

Perhaps no item on the Nov. 2 ballot is more personal than the Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative as the debate over funding for stem cell research pits scientists and researchers against political conservatives and religious groups. Read more...

About 150 people filled a Royce lecture hall Tuesday as three governors from Mexico visited UCLA to discuss what they see as the present and future of Mexico. Read more...

County will start charging to dump wood SAN BERNARDINO “”mdash; The county lost $4 million on its wood- burning venture. The county invested about $1 million in the Burnt Flats Wood Waste Processing Facility last year after the Heaps Peak Transfer Station, a dump site near Running Springs, filled up with trees that had been infested with bark beetles. Read more...

Petty Theft A wallet worth $55 was stolen from the Wooden Center basketball courts on Oct. 22. A television worth $300 was stolen from a room in 300 Medical Plaza between Oct. Read more...