SITE WHERE RFK ASSASSINATED TO BE NEW SCHOOL

The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay a historic preservation group $4 million to drop a lawsuit and allow for destruction of the last building standing on the site where Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.

The school system wants to build a new campus on the site where the Ambassador Hotel once stood but now only houses the dilapidated Coconut Grove nightclub, part of the hotel complex that once attracted such headliners as Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.

Kennedy, a U.S. senator running for president, was shot and killed in the Ambassador's kitchen in 1968 after a speech. After a development tug of war in court with investors that included Donald Trump, the school district bought the 24-acre site in bankruptcy court in 2001 and has faced conservation challenges ever since.

— Associated Press

EARLY ADMISSIONS ENDS

HARVARD APPLICATIONS SOAR

Harvard University received a record number of applicants for the next freshman class, after the end of the school's early-admissions program gave recruiters more time to promote the school.

Applications to the nation's oldest and richest school, in Cambridge, Mass., increased 18 percent from a year earlier, to 27,000, according to a statement.

Princeton University in New Jersey, which also eliminated early admissions, reported yesterday that it received a record 20,118 applications, an increase of 6 percent.

— Bloomberg News