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Jan 29 2013

South Africa’s third largest city

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A friendship city agreement between Los Angeles and Durban, South Africa, will be signed tonight at City Hall.

Councilmen Tom LaBonge and Joe Buscaino, Deputy Mayor Aileen Adams, South African Consul General Cyril Ndaba and a delegation from Durban will participate in the signing ceremony, according to Scott Levin-Gesundheit, LaBonge’s communications deputy.

Jan 29 2013

Unique Russell, Seaborn Mason

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—County supervisors today offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to a gunman who fired shots into a Fourth of July crowd, killing a teenage girl, and also renewed an unrelated $10,000 reward to encourage witnesses of a fatal Long Beach shooting to come forward.

Jan 28 2013

Embezzled tens of thousands of dollars

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A former head of one of the nation’s largest union locals was convicted today of federal charges of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from the Los Angeles-based labor organization.

A Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for three days before finding Tyrone R. Freeman, 43, guilty of mail fraud, embezzlement and/or theft of labor union assets, false statements and tax fraud charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Jan 28 2013

Detains suspect for police

STUDIO CITY, Calif.—Police arrested a man who was detained by actor Taye Diggs after allegedly trying to burglarize the actor’s Studio City home, authorities said today.

Officers sent to the actor’s neighborhood about 11:20 p.m. Sunday arrested Hassan Juma, 20, and booked him on suspicion of burglary, said Richard French of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Jan 25 2013

Ransacked Palmdale home

PALMDALE, Calif.—Sheriff's investigators were seeking the public's help today in identifying two young men who ransacked a Palmdale home and stole a rifle, a laptop, jewelry and cash.

The burglary took place in the 38000 block of 20th Street East around 2 p.m. Wednesday, said Deputy Jodi Wolfe of the Los Angeles County sheriff's Palmdale Station.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.