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Sitting on bench seats in a retrofitted old hearse, stuck in quintessentially choked Los Angeles highway traffic, I listened to a woman narrate the macabre details of an 80-year-old murder. The guide, ...
For decades, two different viruses were believed to be responsible for a common, untreatable disease in dahlias, a colorful, high-value flower grown worldwide. Virologists at Washington State ...
Looking to light up late summer and fall with show-stopping color? Dahlias deliver. With forms ranging from precise pompons to giant dinner plates and shades from soft pastels to moody merlot, there’s ...
Retired school superintendent and educator Judy Stallworth believes that teachers never stop learning. So in May 2012, she was delighted to receive a box of dahlia tubers from a neighbor. “I’d never ...
Early one winter morning, a mother out walking her young child saw something strange in a vacant lot. She thought it was something bad, and so she hurried to a nearby house and called the police. The ...
A new book emphasizes the life, rather than the death, of Elizabeth Short, whose 1947 murder reflected a nation on edge. By Gary Baum Senior Writer Author William J. Mann’s 2014 true-crime tome, ...
'Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood' tells the definitive story of Elizabeth Short's macabre murder — and who she really was INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTO/Getty Solving one ...
At 21, wanderlust — that aching desire to escape to somewhere else — took hold of Elizabeth Short. Medford may have been her home, but Los Angeles was salvation, a bustling city the young woman ...
Elizabeth Short liked to wander. Sometimes this wandering was merely in her mind, watching movies and dreaming of a life far beyond her hometown of Medford, Massachusetts. Many times, it was physical; ...
An amateur sleuth and self-taught cryptography expert is convinced he’s cracked the notorious unsolved Zodiac and Black Dahlia murders — and that the killer is the same man. Alex Baber — a 50-year-old ...
When earlier blooming flowers are fading, dahlias, if grown correctly, will be in full bloom, bringing a crescendo of late season color until the first hard frost. In some gardens, dahlias seem to run ...