By TERRY SPENCER and MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press STUART, Fla. (AP) — The Chinese masseuse shrinks into her chair as the Florida sheriff’s detective tells her deputies installed hidden cameras in her spa’s ceiling. He knows she and other women had sex with men for money. But you can save yourself, Martin County Detective Mike […]
Japanese exchange student speaks about mushroom cloud logo
By ANNETTE CARY Tri-City Herald RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Nonoka Koga was a little shocked when she arrived as an international exchange student at Richland High, home of the Bombers. There on the gym floor was a big green “R’’ over a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb. The school logo seemed to be everywhere, […]
Daughter of ‘tiger mom’ Chua picked as Kavanaugh law clerk
WASHINGTON (AP) — The daughter of Yale Law School professor and “tiger mom’’ Amy Chua, who praised Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a mentor to women after his nomination to the Supreme Court, is going to work for Kavanaugh this summer. Yale Law graduate Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld will serve as a law clerk to Kavanaugh for a […]
Record number of minority graduates at Hawaii medical school
HONOLULU (AP) — A record number of minority medical students have graduated from the University of Hawaii, officials said. There were 12 Native Hawaiians and 12 Filipinos among this year’s 73 graduates from the university’s John A. Burns School of Medicine, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. There were six Native Hawaiian and four Filipino medical school […]
Man guilty of defrauding Apple out of 1,500 iPhones — Quan Jiang sent hundreds of broken ‘iPhones’ to Apple for replacements
By Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) – A Chinese national in Oregon sent hundreds of supposedly broken iPhones to Apple over two years, and got replacements under warranty of almost 1,500 devices. The other big problem, federal prosecutors say, is that the iPhones he sent were fake. He now faces three years in prison and […]
Jury selection begins at trial of Chinese scholar’s slaying
By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge began vetting would-be jurors on June 3 in the death-penalty trial of a former University of Illinois physics student charged with kidnapping, torturing and killing a visiting Chinese scholar. Brendt Christensen, 29, looked on in a dress shirt from a defense table […]
National Spelling Bee ends in 8-way tie
By BEN NUCKOLS OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — There were warning signs throughout a marathon day of spelling that this Scripps National Spelling Bee would not conclude like any other in the event’s 94-year history. Rishik Gandharsi sensed it as he stepped to the microphone for the ninth round of the prime-time finals on the […]
I.M. Pei, architect who designed Louvre Pyramid, dies at 102
By KATHY MCCORMACK and DEEPTI HAJELA NEW YORK (AP) — I.M. Pei (PAY), the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died at age 102. Pei’s death was confirmed on May 16 by Marc […]
Judge tells attacker to study Sikhs as part of sentence
By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A judge on May 24 ordered an Oregon man to learn about the Sikh religion and submit a report to the court as part of his sentence for an attack on a Sikh shopkeeper in Salem, a civil rights group said. Andrew Ramsey pleaded guilty to […]
Asian Americans push for Smithsonian gallery of their own
By JANIE HAR Associated Press The Smithsonian’s initiative on documenting Asians in America started humbly enough two decades ago, with a borrowed exhibit in a borrowed museum wing and a tiny staff. There was a National Museum of the American Indian attached to the Smithsonian, and progress was being made toward a museum on the […]
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