By MARK KENNEDY | Associated Press NEW YORK — A musical about Neil Diamond has found the polished theater gem who will play the icon onstage — Will Swenson. Swenson has been tapped to lead “A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical” this summer when it makes its debut at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre. Swenson…
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LOS ANGELES — Rainy, cold conditions are moving into Southern California Friday morning and are expected to persist through Saturday — bringing snow levels as low as 3,000 feet, along with a winter weather advisory for the L.A. County Mountains, according to the National Weather Service. A line of heavy showers and scattered thunderstorms were…
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Q. Hi Honk. The westbound 91 Freeway approaching the southbound 55 has to be the biggest log jam in the world, and no one seems to be doing anything about it. That area is often bumper to bumper on the 91, while the two adjacent tollway lanes of traffic can travel 80 mph in the…
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10 thoughts as the Chicago Bears get going with a new regime following four days at the NFL scouting combine. 1. Ryan Poles called having only five picks in the upcoming draft — and without selections in the first and fourth rounds — the ‘hand we were dealt.’ At the same time, he said the…
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SAN LUIS OBISPO — UC Irvine’s up-and-down season hit another dip, and a team that had positioned itself for a late run at the conference title less than two weeks ago now finds itself stuck in a tight pack of teams in the middle of the standings. Alimamy Koroma had a career-high 27 points and…
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LOS ANGELES — Reggie Jackson came tantalizingly close to a 40-point triple-double – tantalizingly, anyway, for injured teammates Norman Powell and Jason Preston. Jackson was most pleased by the scoreboard: Clippers 132, Lakers 111, but Powell and Preston were among the spectators who filled Crytpo.com Arena who were soaking up Jackson’s 36-point, eight-rebound, nine-assist display…
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Scores from Thursday’s boys and girls basketball games in the CIF Southern California Regional playoffs, and the updated schedule for Saturday’s semifinals. BOYS BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS CIF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL OPEN DIVISION Regional semifinals, Saturday, 6 p.m. Bishop Montgomery at Corona Centennial Sierra Canyon at Harvard-Westlake DIVISION I Second round, Thursday Damien 66, JSerra 56 St.…
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LONG BEACH — When Colin Slater took the inbounds pass with seven seconds left in a tie game against UC Davis on Thursday night, he wasn’t thinking about how he was 0 for 12 from the field at that point, including seven 3-point misses. The sharpshooter, who was having one of his worst games of…
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HUNTINGTON BEACH >> Two days after securing its first victory in the CIF state playoffs, the Edison boys basketball team showed no signs of slowing down. The Chargers used a 17-2 run in the third quarter Thursday that helped them defeat Birmingham 59-51 at Edison High in the second round of the CIF SoCal Division…
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FULLERTON >> With her teammate Kaylee Byon double-teamed most of the game, Rosary’s Allison Clarke stepped up and scored 21 points to lead the Royals’ girls basketball team to a 56-42 victory over Viewpoint on Thursday in the second round of the CIF Southern California Division I regional playoffs at Rosary Academy. Rosary (17-9) will host…
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