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Mike Connors as the titular detective in “Mannix,” which started in 1967 and became the era’s most popular crime series.   Credit Mike Connors, who broke free of years of supporting roles in the late 1960s when he was cast as a maverick private investigator in “Mannix,” a CBS series that went on to enjoy an eight-season run, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 91. His son-in-law Mike Condon said the death, at a hospital, was caused by complications of leukemia, which had been diagnosed a week earlier, The Associated Press reported. In the series, which had its premiere in 1967, Mr. Connors played Joe Mannix, a Korean War veteran of, like Mr. Connors, Armenian descent who sleuthed his way around Los Angeles with flashy cars and a penchant for citing Armenian proverbs. Unlike many a smooth TV private eye, Mannix took his lumps. The Washington Post, tabulating the wear and tear the character withstood over eight seasons, found that he had endured 17 gunshot wounds an...

Anti-abortion protesters hoping to make headway under the new Trump administration will take to the streets Friday for the annual March for Life. In a show of the issue's importance to the new White House, Vice President Pence will address the crowd, the first time in history a VP has done so. Pence, a staunch opponent of abortion, signed several bills seeking to restrict the practice while governor of Indiana. He is also known for his anti-abortion record while serving in Congress. Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to President Trump, will also address the march. Trump will speak to the crowd by phone, as Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan both did while in office. Trump, who once  declared  that he was “very pro-choice,” took a hard-line conservative position on the issue during his presidential campaign and into his presidency. This week he reinstated the Mexico City policy, which cuts off U.S. aid to international health groups that ...

Rosario Dawson (L) and Donna Hylton * Rosario Dawson  has been cast as activist  Donna Hylton  in a feature film based on the biography A Little Piece Of Light, according to  Deadline.com . The book’s title is said to have been taken from something that happened to Hylton as a child. According to the story that will be used for the feature film: Growing up in Jamaica, Hylton’s mother first sold her to an American couple in New York. She was 7 years old. Thinking that she was going to Disneyland, she ended up in a very different reality: Hylton would find out that her adoptive father was a pedophile. To get away from him, she would hide in the closet, and when she saw a little piece of light coming through the room, she knew he was on his way to get her. Donna Hylton Hylton, whose beauty became her curse in a life of sexual abuse, was later arrested at age 19 when she was a high school track star over her involvement in the kidnapping and murder of a R...

Shia LaBeouf, left, at a livestream performance project outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, on Tuesday.   Credit The actor and performance artist Shia LaBeouf was arrested early Thursday morning on misdemeanor assault and harassment charges while protesting President Trump at a livestream art installation in Queens. In videos online, Mr. LaBeouf — who has a history of provocative behavior and a record of arrests for minor offenses — expresses outrage, evidently aimed at Mr. Trump, and uses expletive-laden language to ask how the public can make it normal “to be a Nazi out here.” In one video, a small gathering of fellow protesters chants “He will not divide us” as the bearded Mr. LaBeouf speaks. A police officer approaches, and Mr. LaBeouf appears to get into a verbal altercation with him before the officer places him in handcuffs and escorts him out of the camera’s view. Shia LaBeouf Arrested On Live Stream!   Video by a...

First trailer for Selena Gomez’s passion  project 13 Reasons Why looks for clues  in a teen suicide. “I’m about  to  tell you the story of my life,” intones the voice in the first  13 Reasons Why  trailer. “More specifically, why my life ended.”  Netflix will explore what drove a a teenager  to  commit suicide on their upcoming series  13 Reasons Why , based on  the  New York Times best-selling book by Jay Asher. The series is being co-produced by Selena Gomez, who will not appear on screen. 13 Reasons Why   will  be directed by Tom McCarthy, who recently won an Oscar for  Spotlight .  The  series was written by Tony and Pulitzer Prize Winner Brian Yorkey ( Next to Normal ). The 13-episode series will focus on Clay (Dylan Minnette), a high school student  who  receives a series of cassette tapes from his friend Hannah (Katherine Langford) explaining why she committed suicide jus...

The Dow Jones industrial average reached 20,000 for the first time ever. The Washington Post's Ylan Mui breaks down what that means for investors.  (Jorge Ribas/The Washington Post) NEW YORK — The closely watched Dow Jones industrial average reached historic levels Friday, breaching 20,000 points for the first time in a week when President Trump began to put his agenda in place. Shortly after the election, investors dubbed a surge in stock prices the “Trump rally,” pushing U.S. stocks to new heights in anticipation that the new president would work with the Republican-led Congress to lower taxes and pass more business-friendly policies. But just as the Dow appeared ready to breach the 20,000 threshold, there was a retreat. Then, this week, as Trump vowed to rewrite trade agreements and revive pipelines, the markets began to rev again. For the Dow, an index of 30 large publicly traded companies, topping the 20,000 level holds more symbolic than pr...

Visitors have  been  banned from Carlisle hospital after six separate wards confirmed cases of norovirus. The trust which runs the Cumberland Infirmary took the decision today  to  stop all visiting hours until the virus can abate. Health bosses are now appealing to  the  public to help minimise the impact of the ongoing outbreak. A spokesman for North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust said: "Norovirus is circulating widely in the community  this  winter and a number of patients at the hospital have been affected, partly due to visitors with symptoms coming into the hospital to see their friend or relative. "The trust has already appealed to anyone planning to visit its hospitals to stay at home if they or their family members have had diarrhoea, vomiting or ‘flu-like’ symptoms in the last two days. "Now all potential visitors are being asked to refrain from visiting until further notice with the exception of maternity,...

A bride who had just married her soulmate was told she had cervical cancer five days after returning home from her honeymoon. Kayleigh, 29, and her husband Rory Spillman, 28, married in August last year, at a countryside manor in Hertfordshire, before jetting off to the beautiful Bora Bora to celebrate. However, just five days after returning to the UK, the pair, who met at university 10 years ago, received the devastating news that school teacher Kayleigh had cervical cancer. For the past three months the newlywed couple has been forced to be celibate while Kayleigh recovers from the radical trachelectomy to remove her cervix. ‘What should have been the best months of our lives have been some of the worst,’ Kayleigh said. ‘We wanted to enjoy life as a married couple, just normal things, but that’s been put on hold.’ (Picture: PA Real Life) According to Kayleigh, the shock diagnosis came after a visit to her GP for a routine smear test in July last...