One escaped inmate arrested by police
SANTA ANA, Calif. – Police arrested one of three violent fugitive inmates on Friday after he told a woman in the same city where the jailbreak occurred a week ago that he wanted to surrender, authorities said. The other two men remained at large.
Bac Duong, 43, was taken into custody in Santa Ana, where the trio made their brazen escape on Jan. 22 from the maximum security facility, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said.
Lee Tran, an owner of Auto Electric Rebuilders, said Duong came into the shop looking for Tran’s sister, Theresa, and told her that he wanted to turn himself in.
Tran says his sister called 911, and Duong went outside to smoke a cigarette and wait for police to arrive.
He says his sister’s boyfriend knows Duong and that marshals had come by to speak with her earlier this week because she might have visited Duong in jail.
Obama announces pay-equity measure
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama sought to showcase progress on his watch on closing the pay gap for women while keeping up the pressure on business, Congress and individuals to tackle an issue he said was still far from being solved.
Marking the seventh anniversary of signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Obama said more must be done to get women into high-paying jobs. In recent years, the pay disparity has narrowed slightly, but a woman in the U.S. still makes 79 cents to a man’s dollar, the White House said.
Obama announced that his administration will expand its collection of data from businesses about what they pay.
In 2014, Obama directed the Labor Department to collect data from federal contractors about what they pay employees, sorted by gender, race and ethnicity. The revised proposal will cover all businesses with 100 or more employees, regardless of whether they contract with the government.
Associated Press
