Actor raises $500K for refugees
Actor raises $500K for refugees
Actor Kal Penn has raised more than $500,000 for Syrian refugees after launching an online fundraiser over the weekend.
Penn also served as an associate director in former President Barack Obama’s White House Office of Public Engagement. Penn, whose parents are Indian, responded to an Instagram commenter who told him he didn’t “belong in this country” by launching the fundraiser Saturday and asking followers to donate to it in the commenter’s name. Penn says in an online video that he thought the fundraiser would simply be “an uplifting way to raise $2,500 bucks.”
Penn starred in the “Harold & Kumar” films.
Sheriff: Slaying suspect is dead
LOS ANGELES
More than four decades after the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley was raped and killed, officials announced Monday they used DNA to identify a suspect in the slaying: a man who was killed by police in 1982.
LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said investigators believe Kenneth Eugene Troyer was responsible for the January 1976 slaying of Karen Klaas. The 32-year-old was attacked Jan. 30, 1976, as she returned home in the Hermosa Beach neighborhood, was sexually assaulted and strangled with her pantyhose. She never regained consciousness and died days later.
Associated Press