This week Beverly Hills police encountered the city’s first reported homicide since the slaying of Ronni Chasen . Read about that and more in the top stories from Oct. 23-29. 1. Families, students and businesses participated in the sixth annual Beverly Hills Education Foundation’s  Apple Harvest Faire fundraiser. 2. School board candidate Frances Bilak has lost a third endorsement after sending a controversial email to a Beverly Hills High School student trying to organize a candidate debate.   3. In more school board news, Patch interviewed Board of Education candidate Lewis Hall . 4. The Beverly Hills Unified School District school board unanimously agreed to support a plan to spend about $55 million on renovations at Horace Mann School .  5. A 54-year-old Los Angeles man has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of his 58-year-old girlfriend in her Beverly Hills apartment. Also, the BHHS football team fell 42-0 in its homecoming defeat to Inglewood . Be sure to follow Beverly Hills Patch on  Twitter  and “Like” us on  Facebook . See more here: Week in Review: Apple Harvest Faire, Horace Mann Renovation and an Alleged Murder