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The University of California, Davis, placed the officers on leave after videos of the incident were widely distributed over the Internet.

The University of California, Davis said on Saturday it would launch an investigation over video footage that appeared to show campus police using pepper spray against seated student protesters at close range.

Dozens of protesters were arrested on the campus of UC Berkeley, where university police moved in to break up an Occupy Berkeley encampment.

An 18-year-old Bowie State University student was fatally stabbed Thursday night by her roommate during a fight in a campus dormitory, Maryland State Police said early Friday.

Authorities said Thursday that 22 students have admitted to using the school computers in February to view 30 to 40 images and three videos, many of which were sent by cellphone. The Milton Independent first reported the story Wednesday.

A teenage student is facing a first-degree murder charge, with police saying that he followed through on a plan to kill the principal of his small private school in Memphis, Tennessee.

Hayward police are checking cellphone records and security camera footage as they search for a nursing student who disappeared Friday during a break from rounds at a hospital.

Police block off the tenth Street garage where a homicide took place at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday, May 10, 2011.

Students at a Washington, DC, elementary school ingested cocaine brought to the school by a fellow pupil today, school officials confirmed.

American student Amanda Knox has been indicted on slander charges for claiming she was beaten by police when questioned in 2007 about her roommate's slaying.