LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles city attorney has filed dozens of criminal charges alleging fire code and safety violations against the owner of a building that exploded in the city’s downtown and injured 12 firefighters, officials announced Friday. The owner of the building faces… Read More »LA prosecutor files charges in May explosion that injured 12
In a warm, encyclopedic tribute to her family Wednesday night, as she formally accepted the vice-presidential nomination, Sen. Kamala Harris skimmed past any discussion of her father, Donald Harris, a Jamaican-born professor of economics at Stanford University. The reason is common to many of Harris’… Read More »Kamala Harris’ father, a footnote in her speeches, is a prominent economist
Lawyer Rob Centa has been an avid fan of the Raptors for years. After seeing players and Raptors media personalities use their platform to raise awareness of racial injustice issues, he was inspired to take action himself. With the NBA playoffs beginning Monday, he and… Read More »Toronto lawyers team up to pledge money to racial justice organizations for every Raptors playoff win
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – A northern Virginia prosecutor who says her county’s judges are infringing on her discretion to dismiss charges and enter plea bargains is asking the state Supreme Court to intervene on her behalf. Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti filed a petition… Read More »Prosecutor pushes to maintain discretion on dropping charges
WASHINGTON – Joe Biden’s controversial remarks about race this week risk alienating young Black voters who despise President Donald Trump but are not inspired by his Democratic rival. When pressed by Errol Barnett of CBS News on whether he’d taken a cognitive test, Biden responded… Read More »Biden risks alienating young Black voters after race remarks
ABBEVILLE, La. – Prosecutors in Louisiana have agreed to release a Black veteran serving a life sentence in prison without parole over a $30 marijuana sale, according to his defence attorneys. The decision reached Thursday in Vermilion Parish will allow Derek Harris to be freed… Read More »Louisiana man serving life for $30 drug sale set to be freed
BERLIN – A French man has been arrested in connection with a child abuse investigation in Germany in which 11 people are now in custody, authorities said Thursday. The 62-year-old suspect was arrested on Wednesday in Saarbruecken, near the French border, police and prosecutors in… Read More »Germany: French man arrested in child abuse investigation
A Mississauga pusatgame man and a 70-year-old American have been charged in the second wave of arrests in an OPP-led crackdown on contraband cigarettes and cannabis. The arrests come less than two months after seven men from the Greater Toronto Area were hit with murder… Read More »Two more men charged in cross-Canada contraband cigarette bust
Josslyn Mounsey and Thairu Taban had done everything right. They stayed away from trouble while growing up in a couple of Toronto’s poorer neighbourhoods. They studied hard, as their immigrant, Black parents had told them to do, and about a year ago landed “dream” jobs… Read More »Two Black safety dispatchers hired at Metrolinx lost their jobs after failing Toronto police background checks. They have no criminal records
JUNEAU, Alaska – A marijuana business in Juneau could start allowing onsite cannabis consumption — making it the first business in the city to do so — if given permit approval later this month. Rainforest Farms submitted an application to the City and Borough of… Read More »Juneau business applies for onsite pot consumption permit