NEW YORK (AP) — Locked-out Major League Baseball players are starting a $1 million fund to support workers impacted by canceled games. The players’ association said Friday the fund will be administered by the union and the AFL-CIO. It will be distributed to stadium workers and others caused financial hardship by baseball’s ninth work stoppage,…
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By STAN CHOE NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks around the world are tumbling Friday, as even a gangbusters report on the U.S. jobs market can’t pull Wall Street’s focus off its worries about the war in Ukraine. The S&P 500 was 1.7% lower in morning trading, following up on sharper losses in Europe after a…
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The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties on Friday recorded their largest increases since July 2015. The Los Angeles County average price rose 13.8 cents to $5.152, and the Orange County average price increased 14.5 cents to $5.135, according to figures from the…
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By JIM HEINTZ, YURAS KARMANAU and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops Friday seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine yet. Firefighters put out the…
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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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