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2 weeks ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Jonathan Wolfe |Amelia Nierenberg
LONDON — A man who in the mid-1990s killed the heir to the Italian fashion house Gucci was arrested on suspicion of shooting his own son April 22 before attempting to kill himself in the Italian province of Pisa, police said. Investigators were still trying to piece together what happened in the small town of Santa Maria a Monte, the province’s Carabinieri police said in an April 23 news release.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
texarkanagazette.com | Jill Cowan |Jonathan Wolfe
LOS ANGELES -- A protest outside of a synagogue in Los Angeles' most densely populated Jewish enclave on Sunday drew unusually swift and forceful condemnation from top Democratic leaders including President Joe Biden, reigniting debates about the boundaries of acceptable protest as tensions over the war in the Gaza Strip continue to flare across the country. The president, along with Gov.
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May 13, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Jonathan Wolfe
LOS ANGELES -- At least one person was arrested after scuffles broke out among pro-Palestinian protesters, private security officers and police officers outside Pomona College’s commencement in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, the latest confrontation between the college and a protest movement that has received strong support from students and faculty on campus.
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May 11, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Matthew Eadie |Jonathan Wolfe |Jacey Fortin |Coral Murphy Marcos |Anna Betts
Some of the campuses that have experienced the most turmoil over the war in the Gaza Strip, including California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Emerson College, the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of California, Berkeley, will try to hold commencement ceremonies without major disruptions Matthew Eadie, Jonathan Wolfe, Jacey Fortin, Coral Murphy Marcos, Anna Betts, Mattathias Schwartz Published 11.05.24, 12:02 PM Protest signs in the trash, the day after police...
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May 6, 2024 | 
staradvertiser.com | Jonathan Wolfe
LOS ANGELES — More demonstrators were arrested Monday as classes resumed at UCLA, the site of some of the tensest moments during a wave of student activism at U.S. universities over the war in the Gaza Strip. Lt. Richard Davis of the UCLA campus police said the protesters arrested in a campus parking deck were charged with conspiracy to attempt burglary. A UCLA spokesperson later said that 44 people had been taken into custody.
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May 4, 2024 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Jill Cowan |Jonathan Wolfe
LOS ANGELES - After weeks of tumult at the University of Southern California, administrators have announced updated commencement plans, with increased security and modified festivities. The plans are in lieu of the university's main graduation ceremony, which the school had canceled, citing security concerns. The university said it would host a "Trojan Family Graduate Celebration" on Thursday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the famed venue where its football team plays home games.
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May 2, 2024 | 
westhawaiitoday.com | Corina Knoll |Jonathan Wolfe
LOS ANGELES — It was an example of a tolerant campus, where a burgeoning pro-Palestinian encampment might be left alone even as student protesters were arrested across the nation. Free speech would be supported as long as things remained peaceful, officials said last week. But by Wednesday morning, the peace at the University of California, Los Angeles, had been shattered.
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May 2, 2024 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Jill Cowan |Jonathan Wolfe |Ben Shpigel
After a group of counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment on the University of California, Los Angeles, campus on Tuesday night as police officers and security guards looked on, state and local officials are demanding answers about what happened and the university's response. "There must be a full investigation into what occurred on campus last night," Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles said in a statement.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Jonathan Wolfe
ARCATA, Calif. - When university administrators across the nation worry about the potential fallout from campus protests, they may have Siemens Hall in mind. The building, at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, includes the campus president's office and has been occupied for a week by pro-Palestinian protesters who barricaded themselves inside and fought off an early attempt by police to remove them.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | David Montgomery |J. Goodman |Jonathan Wolfe |Jenna Russell |Jonathan Wolfe
A wave of pro-Palestinian protests spread and intensified Wednesday as students gathered on campuses around the country, in some cases facing off with police, in a widening showdown over campus speech and the war in the Gaza Strip. University administrators from Texas to California moved to clear protesters and prevent encampments from taking hold on their own campuses as they have at Columbia University, deploying police in tense new confrontations that already have led to dozens of arrests.
