FBI

Apr 12 2013

Did sheriff’s officials obstruct FBI investigation?

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca is scheduled to be interviewed today by federal prosecutors examining allegations of abusive conduct by sheriff’s deputies at L.A. County jails and other problems in his department, although the sheriff says he is not an investigation target, a newspaper reported.

Mar 29 2013

More than a million people have checked out the 1950 report

Out of all the case files made public by the FBI online, the most popular is a memo from 1950 titled “FLYING SAUCERS,” the agency said this week.

The mysterious report from Guy Hottel, special agent in charge in Washington, begins with this:
“An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall.”

Mar 27 2013

Vanished from home

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. — The FBI was assisting the Los Angeles Police Department today in the search for a 10-year-old Northridge girl who disappeared from her home during the night.

Nicole Ryan, who lives in the 8000 block of Oakdale Avenue, is White, 4 feet 11 and about 100 pounds, with long red hair.

The girl’s mother told police she saw her daughter in her room about 1 a.m.. But when she returned to the bedroom about 3:30 a.m., the child was gone, so she called police, LAPD Capt. Daryl Russell said.

Mar 4 2013

FBI concluded none of the fan letters were criminal

Obsessed fans can be a downside of stardom. It’s why Whitney Houston’s character hired Kevin Costner to protect her in the 1992 movie “The Bodyguard.”

The real life Houston had the FBI helping to protect her more than two decades ago when a “loner” in Vermont warned in 1988 that he “might hurt someone with some crazy idea” if the singer did not acknowledge him.

Sep 27 2011

Plans meeting today with U.S. Attorney's office

 
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Sheriff Lee Baca is expected to meet with the U.S
attorney in Los Angeles today amid growing tension between his department and

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.