Do not speak ill of the dead: so runs a familiar injunction, often recalled when it is already too late, and ill has been spoken. And sometimes the dead themselves set a terrible example. Consider the case of the Sunday Times critic John Carey, who died in December. There is much to admire in Carey’s […]

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Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe were both in their twenties when they met in a bookshop in Nottingham. Fainlight, born in New York to Jewish parents, had caught the poetry bug during a peripatetic childhood, not least thanks to reading Milton at school. Sillitoe, meanwhile, had also experienced the world beyond the home town he […]

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A few weeks ago, I sat down with a copy of Eleanor Johnson’s excellent book (published last year) Scream with Me: Horror films and the rise of American feminism (1968-1980). I didn’t expect cosy reading. The book is about the subgenre of “domestic horror”: movies in which a male antagonist terrorizes and victimizes a woman […]

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A mother is outraged after her 5-year-old daughter was struck by a shoe that was thrown at her by a staff member at an Inglewood daycare. The young girl, who has special needs, was being cared for at Destiny Development Center. The incident, which occurred on Jan. 16, was captured by surveillance cameras at the […]

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire Division are in pursuit of a driver suspected of being under the influence. Sky5 is overhead.

In the wake of her mother’s possible abduction, “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, along with family members, released an emotional statement Wednesday evening, in which she spoke directly to her mother’s captors. Nancy Guthrie, 84, was last seen around 9:30 p.m. Saturday after being dropped off at her Tucson, Arizona, home by family members. By Sunday morning, she was gone. Deputies responding to the home found what […]

Authorities in Arizona are denying a media report suggesting they have a “prime suspect” in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today” show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, who is believed to have been abducted from her Tucson home over the weekend. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos reiterated Wednesday that investigators are still sorting through hundreds […]

Wednesday is shaping up to be a near-record heat day across parts of Southern California, especially in many coastal communities, where temperatures are forecasted to be above a typical summertime high. The warmup started early and conditions were already feeling like summer by mid-morning. The coastal views were striking in the morning, with crystal blue […]