City News Service
Nov 6 2012

Safeguard public health

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Los Angeles County voters will be asked today if adult film actors should be required to wear condoms under Measure B, the “Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act.”

If passed, the measure would require adult film producers to apply for a permit from the county Department of Public Health to shoot sex scenes.

Permit fees would finance periodic inspections of film sets to enforce compliance with the requirement that performers use condoms while engaged in sex acts.

Nov 5 2012

Man was behind bars today on charges of posing as the seller of a laptop computer to rob unsuspecting buyers

A 22-year-old Lake Forest man was behind bars today on charges of posing as the seller of a laptop computer to rob unsuspecting buyers, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Jacob Michael Shablo, whose bail was set at $100,000, was arrested Friday on a warrant for attempted robbery with sentence-enhancing gun use allegations, according to court and jail records.

Nov 5 2012

Winners will be determined by online voting

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Ke$ha, No Doubt and Usher will perform at the 40th Anniversary American Music Awards, Dick Clark Productions announced today.

They’ll join previously announced performers Carrie Underwood, P!nk, Pitbull, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Linkin Park and Christina Aguilera on the show, which will be broadcast live from the Nokia Theatre at L.A. LIVE on Sunday, Nov. 18 and aired on ABC.

Nov 5 2012

Donald Ray Dokins will be prosecuted as an adult

COMPTON, Calif.—A 15-year-old boy being prosecuted as an adult in connection with a June 4 gang shooting that killed a 14-month-old boy and wounded the toddler’s father in Watts pleaded not guilty today to murder and attempted murder charges.

Donald Ray Dokins was arraigned in Compton Superior Court on charges stemming from the death of Angel Cortez and the wounding of the boy’s father, Mauro, who was shot in the shoulder.

He was held to answer to the charges on July 16 and is due back in court Nov. 28 for a pretrial hearing.

Nov 5 2012

Cities across Los Angeles County will be deciding ballot measures Tuesday

Los Angeles, Calif., Voters in school districts and cities across Los Angeles County will be deciding ballot measures Tuesday, most involving tax hikes aimed at closing budget gaps or proposed bond issues to fund school construction.

Nov 2 2012

Dennis Tillet was 25

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Authorities today announced a $50,000 reward for information that helps solve the shooting death of a man gunned down in Hyde Park on the Fourth of July.

Dennis Tillet, 25, of Los Angeles was wounded about 10:30 p.m. that day at 48th Street and Second Avenue, the Los Angeles Police Department reported.

He died at a hospital.

Tillet was among of a group of people at the location when gunshots were fired, wounding him and two others, police said.

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.