Her popular series about a female private eye began in 1982 with “A Is for Alibi” and continued through “Y Is for Yesterday” this year.
The crime was never prosecuted because two all-white grand juries refused to indict her attackers. Alabama lawmakers apologized in 2011.
These images, some of the best we took in 2017, capture the power of the artists and performers we covered — and offer plenty of beauty on their own.
The restaurateur and TV gourmand is closing his busy but critically reviled Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar.
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The seizure of the Lighthouse Winmore was revealed after President Trump accused China of secretly transferring petroleum to North Korean ships.
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The first emergency call came at 6:51 p.m. for a fire on the third floor of a five-story apartment building, a New York City Fire Department spokesman said.
How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York.
Mr. Weah, a former soccer player making his third run for the presidency, was well ahead at the polls, election officials said.
Can the electrifying power of #MeToo be harnessed to the slow slog of building a more gender-equal society?
President Trump has transformed the world’s view of the United States from an anchor of the international order into something more inward-looking and unpredictable.
Less than 24 hours after Roy Moore filed suit and claimed “systematic voter fraud” tainted a Senate election, Alabama officials certified his defeat anyway.
Ferguson’s debtors’ prisons devastated its black community. The attorney general wants to keep it that way.
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