Associated Press

Leaves are changing color, midterms are in full swing and I’m feeling an urge to decorate my room with miniature gourds. Fall is here — or is it autumn? 

Laron Edward, a 51-year-old man from Berkeley who was injured during a car crash on Interstate 80 in Reno, was charged with murder Monday while being held in the Washoe County Jail. 

Following considerable deliberation, California state legislators approved a $262.6 billion budget proposal Monday, compromising with Gov. Gavin Newsom on key topics such as economic stimulus, homelessness and higher education.

After you get trained as a copy editor at The Daily Californian, it becomes virtually impossible to stop copy editing everything and anything you read. This, my friend, is what we Daily Cal copy editors like to call “night eyes.”

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Martha Mendoza spoke about her investigation into slavery in the Thai seafood sector at Hearst Field Annex on Wednesday night to a crowd of about 50 people.

Two top UC executives who interfered with a confidential state auditor’s survey, resulting in skewed responses in favor of UC Office of the President, resigned last week.

According to the Associated Press Stylebook, the ever-sacred text that any copy editor worth their salt strictly adheres to, brackets cannot be used as punctuation because “they cannot be transmitted over news wires.”

The UC Board of Regents will meet Wednesday and Thursday to discuss issues including a new statement of principles regarding intolerance, a policy to improve UC Health governance and implementation of a recommendation made by the sexual violence task force.

Following a grand jury’s decision to not indict police officer Darren Wilson, protests erupted throughout the nation, including one in downtown Oakland attended by at least 40 UC Berkeley students.