Northridge

Apr 24 2013

Found at Mexican drug rehabilitation center

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The prime suspect in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 10-year-old Northridge girl was arrested today in Mexico.

Tobias Dustin Summers was arrested by Mexican police working with the Los Angeles Police Department and FBI, according to Lourdes Arocho of the FBI.

The circumstances and exact location of his arrest were not immediately available.

KNX Newsradio reported that Summers was found at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center after tips were received by FBI agents in San Diego.

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.

Daniella Masterson  |   OW Contributor
Mar 1 2012

A hairstyle is reborn

“I am Black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me because I am Black because the sun hath scorched me.”  —Song of Solomon
 
The 1960s not only birthed a political revolution, it created a Black cultural renaissance that impacted music, art, beauty and fashion. Known as the “Black is Beautiful” movement, the era brought a renewed sense of identity and pride.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Jan 19 2012

Somebody’s reading your mail—and it’s not always who you think

Social networking, which seems to have magically appeared on the stage only about 10 years ago, virtually dominates many American lives today, from the way we receive information, communicate, interact with one another to the way we do business.

In many cases, we tweet, text, link-in rather than talk. We carry electronic tablets to read books, magazines and newspapers, and we scroll through the Internet to catch up on what’s happening around our cities, nation and world.

Brittney M. Walker  |   OW Staff Writer
May 19 2011

Training on an open field

LANCASTER, Calif.—Eastside High School is home to the Lions, including CIF high school senior track finalists Le’Gia Pendergraph and Traviell Hill. The two have been among the league underdogs in track and field, but still their achievements have put smiles on their faces.

This past season was challenge for Pendergraph because she had doubts about herself. As a long-distance runner, she had an opponent who is like her arch-nemesis, but Pendergraph was finally victorious and won first place.

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.