College Students Across California Plan Walk-outs
California college students are planning to walk out of class today in their own version of an economic protest. At UC Berkeley, faculty and students are staging a two-day strike they're calling "Occupy Cal." Protests are also planned at CSU campuses from San Bernardino to Sacramento. California State University students face another tuition hike, their sixth in a row.
County Considers Closing Troubled Recycling Plant
Officials in Kern County will decide the fate of a controversial recycling plant where two young immigrant workers from Oaxaca died from toxic fumes. The plant recycles a quarter of the state's compostable materials.