Illustration by JARRETT QUON/Daily Bruin By Christian Mignot Daily Bruin Contributor As you perfect your Elvis impersonation or stain your shirt with blood for Halloween, you’re probably unaware that you’re participating in a celebration with several hundred years of history behind it. Read more...

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...

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...

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...