According to foster care statistics, there are now more than 500,000 children in the foster care system nationwide, with 25,000 teens aging out of the system each year. Seventy percent of the emancipated foster youth hope to go to college, only about 3 percent make it there. In California more than 20,000 youth are homeless and living [...]

That wasn’t the case in Pomona, where he took the chief’s job in 2003.If families went back generations in Green Bay, the same thing could be said for gangs in Pomona. “Sometimes, we’d get pictures of grandparents, parents and small children flashing gang signs and holding weapons, so whole generations of families had been members,” [...]

Why am I not surprised that the ACORN-hounding fake-prostitute Hannah Giles is being represented by Kelly Shackelford and the Liberty Legal Institute. The Liberty Counsel urges you to “Adopt a Liberal.” David Hart reports that NOM is desperately trying to connect the fight over marriage equality to ACORN. Media Matters chronicles the on-going [...]

Katz examines how media has changed over the years in his film, “Tough Guise.” As women’s rights progresses, they become physically smaller in the media. They went from large and curvy, like Marilyn Monroe, to stick-thin and starving, like Alessandra Ambrosia.Pornography and “strip culture,” as Katz calls it, is directly related to “rape culture.” Most [...]

When Greenfeld and Wrigley is Going Green, a group of residents that supports greening efforts in the community and has planted more than 150 trees locally, floated the idea of placing a garden on land where a notorious apartment complex once stood, who would haveargued?Who wouldn’t want a nice community garden in which to plant [...]

The conference, which ends today, is featuring more than 50 workshops on children’s issues presented by experts in their fields. Amy Cousineau, network officer, who chaired the event, said more than 600 people attended the first day.Other workshop presenters included Karen Bell, chief deputy district attorney and Tamara Ross, a deputy district attorney, who told [...]

Jesus & strippers…“I hated lining up—like a cattle call,” remarks Harmony Dust outside the club. Dust, a former stripper, started slipping notes on the windshields of dancers six years ago telling them “you are loved”—and her ministry, I Am a Treasure, was born. Along with other women including former strippers, she lavishes love on women [...]

Police say a Corona man was charged Tuesday with raping a prostitute and the attempted rape of another.They said 29-year-old Gilberto Cruz Silva might have been successful raping the second woman but that she was able to pull a knife, fight back and escape.According to Susan Kang Schroeder of the Orange County District Attorney’s office, Silva picked [...]

Man is accused of attacking 2 prostitutes with a knife…SANTA ANA A 29-year-old man is facing charges that he raped a prostitute and attempted to rape another at knife point after refusing to pay for sex early Sunday in Santa Ana, authorities said. Gilberto Cruz Silva, of Corona, who is unemployed, is charged [...]

England also encouraged the girl to invite her friends over and used a bathroom peephole to spy on them, and installed a camera near the bathtub to take pictures, she said.England molested several young girls while living in Costa Mesa in the mid-1970s, but most of the attacks weren’t reported to authorities, Schroeder said.England [...]

keep looking »