After quietly helping Mel Brooks set the irreverent tone on “Get Smart” and “The Producers,” she had a long collaboration as a writer with the actor and humorist Marshall Efron.
The comic writer Alfa-Betty Olsen with the actor and humorist Marshall Efron in 1977. She first worked with him on “The Great American Dream Machine” on PBS.
The blast that killed 16 people has left area residents reeling, including Sheriff Chris Davis of Humphreys County, who has fought back tears in his public briefings.
Blazes that firefighters thought had died but then later came roaring back to life have become increasingly common, heightening scrutiny of how first-responders put out wildfires.
The former supporter, Austin Beutner, who once ran the city’s public schools, announced he will challenge Ms. Bass’s re-election bid in next year’s mayoral race.
The plant owned by Accurate Energetic Systems has long been an economic bedrock in rural Hickman and Humphreys Counties. Now it’s a source of widespread grief.
She worked in American consulates around the world but found a home in China’s “Paris of the East,” where she documented a vanishing colonial architecture.
One million residents of Guangdong, in southern China, were evacuated before the powerful storm made landfall on Wednesday. At least 18 people have been killed along its path this week.