Los Angeles, CA -- Avocation meeting vocation: That is how Faye Washington views her position as chief executive officer for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of the Greater Los Angeles.

She took on the job after retiring from the City of Los Angeles in 1998, where the Los Angeles native worked 32 years and moved up the ranks from a clerk to becoming the highest ranking African American woman in a number of areas in the city government.

 Los Angeles, CA -- The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has asked for a report on cases of identity theft targeting foster youths and ways to protect teenage wards of the county.

Supervisor Michael Antonovich asked for the report, on Tuesday, in light of a recently passed state law that requires county welfare agencies to ask for credit checks on foster youths who are 16 or older and to refer them to credit counseling groups if the credit check turns up negative information.