LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have identified a man who opened fire on the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles before taking his own life. The gunman was identified last week as 62-year-old Larry Xin Zhang, a Chinese national. Police did not release a motive for the attack. Police say the gunman riddled the Koreatown building […]
Officials: Woman found dead in Yosemite National Park was from China
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say the woman found dead in Yosemite National Park was from China. Park spokesman Scott Gediman says the woman has been identified as 27-year-old Chaocui Wang of China. On July 31, officials confirmed the death on the Pacific Crest Trail, in the northwestern portion of the California park. […]
Asian American students rejected by Harvard at center of affirmative action fight
By SADIE GURMAN and MARIA DANILOVA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said last week it had no broad plans to investigate whether college and university admission programs discriminate against students based on race, seeking to defray worries that a job posting signaled an effort to reverse course on affirmative action. News reports […]
Court: Police can’t detain immigrants without charges
By Mark Pratt Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts police officers do not have the authority to arrest someone suspected of being in the United States illegally if that person is not facing criminal charges, the state’s highest court ruled July 24. The Supreme Judicial Court opinion applied specifically to officers who provide security in […]
Lawsuit: Trafficking scheme lured Filipinos to Oklahoma
By Adam Kealoha Causey and Ken Miller Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Owners of an Oklahoma hotel and other businesses engaged in a human trafficking scheme that lured workers from the Philippines promising good wages but didn’t deliver as promised, according to a lawsuit. Three Filipino workers brought to Clinton, Okla., about 80 miles […]
Chinese billionaire convicted in United Nations bribery case
By Larry Neumeister Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese billionaire who wanted to build a United Nations center in Macau was convicted on July 27 of paying more than $1.7 million in bribes to U.N. ambassadors to get it done. The verdict was returned after a day of deliberations in Manhattan federal court […]
Airbnb host who canceled reservation over race fined $5,000
By Michael Balsamo Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Airbnb host who cancelled a reservation and told the guest, “One word says it all. Asian,” has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine and attend a college course in Asian American studies, officials with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing said July 13. […]
Claims of human rights abuses in Hawaii fleet
By Caleb Jones Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A human rights complaint has been filed with an international commission to investigate claims of human rights violations in Hawaii’s commercial fishing industry. Turtle Island Restoration Network told The Associated Press on July 20 that they filed the complaint the previous week with the Inter-American Human Rights […]
Man dies when air bag inflator ruptures during car repair
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Another person has been killed in the United States by an exploding Takata air bag inflator, but this death wasn’t the result of a crash. Ramon V. Kuffo, 81, of Hialeah, Fla., was working inside a 2001 Honda Accord using a hammer when the air bag […]
Texas judge removed over citizenship becomes US citizen
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A judge in Texas who was put on unpaid leave in May after officials discovered she was not a U.S. citizen has become a citizen. Corpus Christi Municipal Court Judge Young Min Burkett was sworn in as a citizen on July 7. That makes her eligible to vote and serve […]
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