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Westwood apartment peeping suspect arrested by university police

Police arrested a man wanted for peeping and prowling several times around UCLA student apartments in Westwood. University police officers arrested the man Friday morning after he asked an acquaintance to store his belongings and buy him an Amtrak ticket to Santa Barbara under a false name. Christopher Mendicino, 47, is a suspect in about […]

Repairs to Pauley to be completed before basketball season begins

Pauley Pavilion’s court will be fully refurbished by October’s end, said UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero in a statement Friday afternoon. The announcement confirms that the UCLA men’s basketball and women’s basketball teams will each play its entire regular season in Pauley Pavilion. A “new state-of-the-art court” will replace the damaged Nell and John Wooden […]

CityTarget closed for part of Friday because of sprinkler leak

This post was updated at 9:28 a.m. Westwood’s CityTarget on Weyburn Avenue has closed for part of Friday because of water leaking from a half-inch pipe on the store’s ceiling early this morning. The leak, which started at about 3:30 a.m. on Friday, had stopped as of press time, but the store will stay closed […]

Repairs on water pipe expected to end Friday night

Workers are expected finish replacing a water pipe Friday night that broke and caused flooding at UCLA Tuesday, after removing the damaged portion of the pipe from the ground this morning, officials said. After that, workers are set to begin the backfilling process to the trench before paving the road again, said Jeff Bray, Los […]

UCPD reports series of burglaries in North Village student apartments

University police have reported a series of burglaries in UCLA student apartments in the North Village since Sunday. The burglaries took place on Kelton Avenue at 2:40 a.m. Sunday, Roebling Avenue at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and Gayley Avenue at 7:33 a.m. Thursday. In each case, a man wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and dark pants […]

UCLA student grabbed by man with knife in sculpture garden

A man with a knife grabbed a UCLA student in the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden Wednesday evening, university police said. The student was jogging on the northeast side of the sculpture garden, south of Macgowan Hall, about 8:30 p.m. when the man, who was holding a knife in his right hand, grabbed her from […]