Amid scenes that resembled 1960s antiwar and civil rights demonstrations, the University of California Regents approved a two-step 32 percent increase in student fees Thursday.
The increase will first hit students over winter break, with a 15 percent hike for undergraduate students and a 2.6 percent increase for graduate academic students.-
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The Merced Union High School District board endorsed two timelines for the completion of new construction projects in the district over the next five years.
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WASHINGTON -- A 2,074-page health care bill unveiled in the Senate this week omits funding for proposed medical schools at UC Merced and other institutions.
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One man has been booked on suspicion of firing a gun Wednesday near Charles Wright Elementary School, Merced police reported.
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Embezzlement defendant Kimberly Sziraki pleaded not guilty to 13 felony counts of embezzlement in Merced County Superior Court on Thursday.
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A pit bull wandering loose next to G Street in Merced on Tuesday sparked a few calls to the Merced Police Department's dispatch line.
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UC Merced said the University of California Board of Regents approved a request to include UC Merced's Yosemite Field Station as part of the UC Natural Reserve System (NRS).
The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the world, at least according to the program for "The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged)," running at Playhouse Merced's Black Box Theater through Nov. 29.
Sears Tower plot leader gets 13-year prison termThe ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge.