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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.

For much of the presidential election of 2008, Barack Obama’s campaign was Emma Guerrero’s life. She was one of a dozen volunteers who showed up at an Obama campaign office here every night, taking time from her studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to be part of what she still remembers as the most exciting period of her life.

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

Katie, a senior at Plainfield North who asked for her last name to be withheld, felt confident that she was prepared for her AP Statistics exam. But when she realized that she may have overestimated her readiness halfway through the test, she decided to look at someone else’s paper. She said she reasoned with herself that she had put in the work.

At the County College of Morris, a history teacher showed little patience with Philip Garber Jr. when he raised his hand.

Amanda Knox is set to fly home to the US after she and Raffaele Sollecito were cleared by an Italian court of murdering student Meredith Kercher.

A college student from New York was paid between $1,500 and $2,500 to stand in for at least a half dozen students attending a prestigious Long Island high school and take the SAT exam for them, a prosecutor said Tuesday in announcing criminal charges in the case.

Two University of Maryland students were burned Monday afternoon after an explosion sparked a small fire in a chemistry lab, authorities said.

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.