Los Angeles This article is more than 3 years oldLos Angeles explosion: 11 firefighters hurt as 'hash oil factory' burnsThis article is more than 3 years oldFire department says 230 firefighters responded to blaze
An explosion in downtown Los Angeles has injured 11 firefighters, with scores more sent to put out the blaze in what was described as a factory making cannabis oil.
Captain Erik Scott of the Los Angeles fire department said “one significant explosion” shook the neighborhood around 6. Read More...
Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryPoem of the week: Virginia Woolf's Angels 1919 by Patricia McCarthyTwo contrasting varieties of 'angel' provide a dynamic image of the writer's sense of liberation, and subtle premonitions of her fateThis week's poem, Virginia Woolf's Angels 1919, comes from Patricia McCarthy's new collection, Horses Between Our Legs, a collection which includes the poem that won first prize last year in the National Poetry Society competition, Clothes that escaped the Great War. Read More...
Spain This article is more than 2 years oldSpanish bishop who married erotica author is stripped of powers This article is more than 2 years oldXavier Novell i Gomà was Spain’s youngest bishop before abandoning clerical career to marry Silvia Caballol
A Spanish bishop has been formally stripped of his powers and prohibited from administering the sacraments four months after he abandoned his clerical career to marry a “dynamic and transgressive” erotic novelist. Read More...