Features

Apr 23 2013

Fashion photographer turned actor

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — Allan Arbus, a one-time fashion photographer who turned to acting and gained fame portraying quick-witted, liberal-leaning psychiatrist Maj. Sidney Freedman on the hit television series “M*A*S*H,” has died at his Los Angeles home.

Arbus died Friday at age 95, his daughter, Amy, told the New York Times.

Apr 22 2013

Bombing suspect was “mentally competent and lucid” during a brief hearing

BOSTON, Mass. — Federal authorities handed control of the Boston thoroughfare that became a corridor of blood-spattered horror back to the city Monday evening after spending a week combing it for evidence.

Apr 22 2013

Capable of going 140 mph or faster

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Los Angeles will be among 10 cities to host electric car racing next year, the mayor announced today.

Races will also be held in Miami, London, Buenos Aires and Beijing, among others.

As Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Los Angeles selection in front of Department of Water and Power headquarters, an all-electric car zipped along Hope Street with ex-Formula 1 driver Lucas di Grassi at the wheel.

Apr 22 2013

Brothers and friends lost

WEST, Texas — Since they were little boys growing up West, Texas, brothers Doug and Robert Snokhous did everything together. They fixed cars, went hunting, golfed and barbecued together. It just made sense that they would both become volunteer firefighters, and that they were side by side last Wednesday when they rushed to a fire at the West Fertilizer Co.

Apr 18 2013

“If You See Something, Say Something.”

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Boston Marathon explosions prompted the Los Angeles Police Department to remind the public today of the iWatch website, designed as a reporting mechanism for suspicious activity or behavior that might have a nexus to terrorism.

Calling it the “21st century version of Neighborhood Watch,” the site is designed to gather tips from the public, following the motto, “If You See Something, Say Something.”

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.