In the mid-1960s, the man who would make “Star Wars” entered the University of Southern California a humble anthropology student with a love of photography. Today, he is a rock star. Read more...

FONTANA “”mdash; A teenager pleaded guilty in the shooting death of a man at a bank ATM and stealing the victim’s 2003 GMC Yukon sport utility vehicle. Read more...

A judge set a trial date Wednesday for a lawsuit against the University of Colorado that touched off a scandal in the football program over allegations that sex, drugs and alcohol were used to lure recruits. Read more...

The UC Board of Regents is supposed to be the guard of California’s greatest education system. But it is the regents’ response to budget cuts that frequently threaten students more than any other factor. Read more...

Violence against a specific group of people is always disturbing ““ especially when it occurs next door. Robert Grosfield, a UCLA student, was arrested and charged Wednesday in connection to the vandalism of UCLA’s LGBT Resource Center on three separate nights in early September. Read more...

Correction appended University apartment residents are questioning UCLA Housing’s management of a new Westwood project after construction delays forced the department to place single students in a families-only complex this summer. Read more...