This post was updated Sept. 22 at 2:06 p.m. 
The University of California admitted at least 64 unqualified students between 2013 and 2019 based on donations or family connections, including four applicants admitted to UCLA as student-athletes, according to a state audit released Tuesday.

This post was updated at 1:16 p.m. to reflect a newly reported earthquake magnitude.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Los Angeles on Friday evening, according to the United States Geological Survey.

UCLA will likely not fully reopen until an effective COVID-19 treatment is available to students and staff, according to UCLA’s four-phase reopening plan released Friday.
The plan eases restrictions on campus activities in four phases, with the last phase being a return to normal operations.

University police arrested a man Friday evening after he allegedly looked through a female student’s Courtside residence window, according to a UCPD press release Tuesday.
Ivan Andrew Diamond, a 33-year-old Los Angeles resident, was charged with Peeking Into an Inhabited Dwelling and Providing False Identification after being arrested Friday evening, according to the press release.

For the fourth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report ranked UCLA as the No. 1 public university in the U.S.
U.S. News & World Report releases annual rankings of U.S.

The University of California can no longer use standardized testing scores as criteria for admissions, a California judge ruled in a preliminary injunction Monday.
The policy at many UC campuses that gives students an option to submit test scores puts the access of students with disabilities at a disadvantage and may violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, wrote Judge Brad Seligman in a preliminary injunction ruling for the Smith v.

A visiting UCLA researcher was charged with destroying evidence to obstruct an FBI investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
Guan Lei, a visiting researcher from China who studied mathematics, allegedly destroyed a computer hard drive while he was under an FBI investigation, according to an affidavit written by FBI special agent Timothy Hurt, who investigated Lei beginning in July.

This post was updated Aug. 23 at 2:30 p.m.
A water main break that flooded multiple structures on campus Sunday morning has been contained, UCLA officials said.

The union that represents lecturers at UCLA is calling on University of California President Michael Drake to continue contract negotiations to increase job stability for lecturers.

The hole left by the departure of Stan’s Donuts has a new filing: another family-owned donut shop.
Primo’s Donuts, a 64-year-old donut shop operated by three generations of the same family, will take over the Westwood Village vacancy previously occupied by Stan’s Donuts this fall, according to a press release from Bel Air Branding, who represents Primo’s Donuts.