Los Angeles Times - 11.03.2020

An infant was killed and
his two siblings were injured
when their mother, who po-
lice say was driving under
the influence, crashed head-
on into a sport utility vehicle
in the San Fernando Valley

on Monday night.

Irlanda Sanchez, 23, was

driving a 2003 white Toyota

SUV recklessly east on

Nordhoff Street about 11:

p.m. when she veered into

oncoming traffic and

slammed into a black 2017

Chevy SUV near Tobias Ave-

nue, said Officer Tony Im, a

spokesman for the Los An-

geles Police Department.

Her three children — in-

fant twins who were 4 to 6

months old and a toddler —

were hospitalized. One of

the twins — a boy — died at a

hospital, police said. The

condition of the other twin

was not provided by police

Tuesday. The toddler had

lacerations to the head and

was expected to survive.

The man driving the

Chevy SUV was taken to a

hospital with moderate in-

juries and was expected to

survive, police said. Video

from the scene showed

investigators combing

through the mangled wreck-

age as rain fell early Tues-

day.

Sanchez, who was also

treated at a hospital, was ar-

rested Tuesday on suspicion

of murder, Im said. She is be-

ing held in lieu of $2-million

bail, according to jail re-

cords.

Mother arrested in crash that killed son

By Hannah Fry

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Chicago 48 38 .28 53 42 Cy
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Cleveland 55 54 .23 49 40 Cy
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Louisville 61 57 .32 62 50 Cy
Medford 66 32 -- 66 35 Su
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New Orleans 76 66 .78 79 64 Cy
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Orlando 79 62 Tr 83 60 Su
Philadelphia 68 49 .10 58 41 Pc
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Acapulco 95 72 -- 86 75 Pc
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Cairo 70 57 -- 77 62 Hz
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Singapore 91 79 -- 90 78 Pc
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Thursday, but wrap-around moisture will still bring showers to the area Friday.
Wet in the Southwest:Areas of rain and high-mountain snow will reach
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Rain will also fall in areas from the central and southern Plains to the
Southeast. The Northeast will be dry but colder.

A

ward-winning
mystery writer
Barbara Neely,
who created
what’s believed
to be the first black female
detective series in main-
stream American publish-
ing, has died after a brief ill-
ness, according to her pub-
lisher, Brash Books. She was
78.
Neely, who died March 2,
is perhaps best known for
her four-book Blanche
White series, which had at its
center a nomadic amateur
detective and domestic
worker who uses the invisi-
bility inherent to her job as
an advantage in pursuit of
the truth.
“I realized the mystery
genre was perfect to talk
about serious subjects,” she
told Ms. magazine in 2000,
“and it could carry the politi-
cal fiction I wanted to write.”
Neely was named the
2020 Grand Master by the
Mystery Writers of America.
In announcing the honor
last year, the association de-
scribed Neely as “a ground-
breaking author” who “tack-
les tough social issues with
an unflinching eye and a wry
sense of humor.”
The Blanche White series
includes 1992’s “Blanche on
the Lam,” 1994’s “Blanche
Among the Talented Tenth,”
1998’s “Blanche Cleans Up”
and 2000’s “Blanche Passes
Go.” They push past mys-
tery into political and social
commentary, tackling sub-
jects such as violence

against women, racism,

class boundaries and sex-

ism.

“If Toni Morrison wrote

murder mysteries, they

would probably read a bit

like Barbara Neely’s,” the

women’s general-interest

website Bustle said in 2015.

Her character White had

an uncommon eye for detail

and interpretation. Early in

“Blanche Among the Tal-

ented Tenth,” White sees a

magazine picture and thinks

something is amiss.

“It wasn’t natural for a

picture of black people in a

public place to all be the

same complexion, unless

somebody wanted it that

way.”

“Blanche on the Lam”

won the Agatha Award, An-

thony Award, and the

Macavity Award for best

first novel, as well as the Go

on Girl! Award from the

Black Women’s Reading

Club. Her series has been

translated into several lan-

guages, including French,

Czech, German and Japa-

nese.

She was included in 2012’s

“100 American Crime Writ-

ers” by Steven Powell.

“She was an inspiration,

a trailblazer and a remarka-

ble talent and voice whose

loss is deeply felt,” Mystery

Writers of America said in a

statement after her death.

“Her talent and memory will

live on forever in her wonder-

ful books.”

Neely was born in 1941 in

Lebanon, Pa. She attended

the University of Pittsburgh,

where she earned a master’s

degree. She worked on be-

half of women released from

prison and as a radio pro-

ducer. She also had posi-

tions at the Institute for So-

cial Research and was exe-

cutive director of Women for

Economic Justice.

Neely published her first

short story, “Passing the

Word” in the magazine Es-

sence in 1981. It took her

more than a decade to be-

come an established author.

Her other works include

“Among the Talented Tenth:

A Novel.”

BARBARA NEELY, 1941 - 2020

Author of black female detective series

‘A REMARKABLE TALENT’

Barbara Neely is best known for her Blanche White series, which has at its center a nomadic amateur

detective and domestic worker who uses the invisibility inherent to her job as an advantage.

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