Debory Li

More than 50 people showed up for LA Regional Food Bank's "Have a Heart for the Hungry" event Saturday to assemble food packages for needy families and mingle with other volunteers on Valentine's Day. 

LOS ANGELES - A dozen students from a network of 13 public charter schools in South Los Angeles  were awarded full-paid scholarships to England to play rugby against another high school team.

INGLEWOOD, Ca - More than 100 people gathered at Inglewood's Savoy Entertainment Center to celebrate America's first African-American, Barack Obama, becoming president 45 years to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the iconic "I Have a Dream" speech.

The Freeway Complex Fire scorched through cities of Yorba Linda, Anaheim, Chino Hills and Corona this past week, destroying more than 300 homes around the area. Of these homes, more than 180 of them were located in Yorba Linda where volunteers set up a disaster relief center and a local assistance center to help the victims of the fire.

            As Americans journalists, we like to pride ourselves in the freedom to speak or write about almost anything we please. After all, we live in a nation where the First Amendment grants us the freedom of speech and of the press. Just as so, the United States should have much more leeway to print stories about controversial issues such as war, sex and politics than other nations. In more conservative nations like Afghanistan, journalists may be captured or even killed for writing articles that may seem somewhat controversial or notorious. Why is it that Americans seem to be out of touch with the rest of society? Have we, as American journalists, missed something in the global arena, or are we just too into our own lives to notice what is going on with the rest of the world?

Under the theme of "Change" and "Hope", thousands of Obama supporters gathered the night of elections at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles to celebrate the victory.

Just like many, I watched the Second Presidential Debate holding on to my seat, waiting for the candidates to say something with actual meaning to it. By the end of the night, it seemed the fizz had just run flat, with questions still being left unanswered. Exactly how long can these two presidential candidates continue being so vague?