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Students protesting the war in Gaza left their camp at the University of Southern California without major incident after they were surrounded by police and threatened with arrest. In Boston, Northeastern University's commencement began peacefully at Fenway Park on Sunday. Many were watching developments closely at both campuses after police last month arrested 94 people when they first broke up …

Twenty-five people have been arrested for trespassing at the University of Virginia after police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters who refused to remove tents from campus. Video from WVAW-TV showed officers with heavy gear and shields lined up on the campus in Charlottesville. Protesters chanted “Free Palestine.” The arrests come after tense and sometimes violent weeks on campuses around th…

So far, the Bay Area’s biggest universities, from Berkeley and Stanford to San Jose State and University of San Francisco, have largely managed to avoid the kinds of bloody skirmishes and riot police that have made headlines at campuses across the country.

A Mill Valley School District teacher arrested in a child molestation case this week was found dead in the Point Reyes National Seashore, the county coroner’s office said Thursday.

Around noon on Tuesday, hundreds of students at UC Santa Cruz gathered at Quarry Plaza on the university's campus and swiftly set up a Palestine solidarity encampment similar to those that have formed on college campuses across the state and the country.

Understanding exactly how violence and disorder escalated requires a closer look at the events leading up to Wednesday night’s crackdown, beginning with last week’s arrests at USC.

A historic, weeklong protest at UCLA in solidarity with war-battered Gaza was over Thursday morning, May 2, just hours after waves of police in riot gear dismantled demonstrators’ massive encampment outside Royce Hall and detained dozens from a crowd estimated in the low thousands.

This is not the first time that Shelton has faced these types of allegations. Matthew Joseph Shelton previously faced misdemeanor sexual abuse allegations involving four students while teaching at Phillips Edison Elementary School in Napa back in April 2007.

The university said of the 32 people who were arrested 13 are students, 1 is a faculty member and 18 are nonstudents.