Security

Lt. John Pike, the UC Davis police officer who became a focal point of last November's pepper-spraying incident during a campus protest, is no longer employed by the university, a spokesman confirmed late Tuesday.

The University of Colorado spent roughly $110,000 on President Barack Obama's historic visit to the Boulder campus this spring -- less than half the price tag for the campus' unprecedented efforts days earlier to shut down the annual 4/20 smoke-out, the school announced Tuesday.

A Kent State University student accused of posting a message on Twitter saying he planned to "shoot up" the northeastern Ohio campus was instructed Monday to stay away from the school and its president.

Jackson Community College is dissolving its campus security department and privatizing the service in hopes of saving about $300,000 in this year’s budget.

An Uzbek man who pleaded guilty to plotting to assassinate President Barack Obama was never admitted to Columbia University's medical school, the university said Saturday, contrary to defense claims before he was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.

Campus police at the University of Texas in Austin are sending out an alert to parents of UT students about anonymous phone calls claiming to have kidnapped their son or daughter.

U.S. Department of Justice investigators will interview Missoula police Wednesday and Thursday about 518 sexual assault reports, ranging from misdemeanors to rape, over the past four years, Chief Mark Muir said Tuesday.

Police at Georgia Tech say they're adding officers and extending a night-time campus shuttle service after a student reported being robbed by gunmen inside his dorm room.

At least 16 people have reported that their credit cards might have been compromised at Olympic College.

After a vicious assault on a Trinity College sophomore a few months ago, suspicions turned toward neighborhoods near its Hartford campus. Hundreds of students rallied for tighter security. Police stepped up patrols. And the chairman of the college's board of trustees pledged to address safety concerns.