Alexandra Petri

5 days ago | straitstimes.com | Alexandra Petri |Simon Levien

LOS ANGELES - American veteran director James Foley, whose films included Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and the Fifty Shades Of Grey sequels (2017 and 2018), and who also worked on the hit television series House Of Cards (2013 to 2018), died this week at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71. His death came after a year-long battle with brain cancer, according to Mr Taylor Lomax of ID, the firm that represents Foley.

2 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Alexandra Petri

Four people, all of them children or teenagers, were killed and several others were injured on Monday when a car crashed through an after-school center in Chatham, Ill., a village just south of Springfield, the State Police said. The victims are believed to be 18 years and younger, the Illinois State Police Department said in a news release. The car struck three of the victims outside the building and the other inside it, the police said.

2 weeks ago | pressdemocrat.com | Alexandra Petri

A member of the emergency medical services in Kansas City, Missouri, died Sunday after being stabbed by a patient who was being transported to a hospital in what officials said started out as a “routine medical call.”The patient stabbed emergency worker Graham Hoffman, a 29-year-old firefighter paramedic, in the chest, piercing his heart, city officials said in a news release. A suspect was in custody but had not been publicly identified. A motive for the attack was not immediately known.

3 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | Alexandra Petri |Sara Ruberg

Roy Thomas Baker, who was among the most successful music producers of the 1970s and 1980s and who helped produce Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," one of the most unconventional pop hits, died at his home in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., on April 12. He was 78. His death was announced by Bob Merlis, a spokesperson, who said in a statement that the cause was unclear.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Alexandra Petri |Sara Ruberg

1 hour agoRoy Thomas Baker, one of the music producers behind Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," has died. He was 78. According to a press release, Baker died at his home in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., on April 12. The cause of death was not revealed. Throughout his career, along with having worked on what would be the …