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“Hello, Dolly!” is still glowin’ and goin’ strong as one of the signature, regularly revived American musicals, but the 1964 show about turn-of-the-century matchmaker Dolly Levi, with songs by Jerry Herman, was sporting something a little different as it awaited its latest opening, Saturday at...

Los Angeles International Airport officials are diverting arriving flights away from normal landing routes to steer clear of temporary military airspace, airport officials have announced.

It's not the yellow of the morning sun or of anything it shines upon.

But in the early 1970s, the garish "optic yellow" of the modern tennis ball was the color of change, and Mike Davies, who helped transform tennis from a country club pastime to a billion-dollar sports enterprise, embraced it.

New releases featuring old reliables -- James Bond and Charlie Brown and his friends from the “Peanuts” comic strip -- beckoned moviegoers back to cinemas Friday after a lean couple of weekends at the box office.

A top Egyptian official said Saturday that a mysterious noise was heard on the cabin recorder a moment before a Russian passenger jet plunged out of the skies over the Sinai Peninsula a week ago.

Charlie Brown and Snoopy are back after 35 years, this time on the big screen with a shiny new 3-D computer-animated makeover in "The Peanuts Movie," and reviews have been quick to reassure fans that this faithful adaptation keeps the spirit of the Peanuts gang intact. 

FOOTBALL

CITY

DIVISION I

First round, Friday, 7 p.m. unless noted

#16 Eagle Rock (6-4) at #1 Narbonne (8-2)

#9 South Gate (8-2) at #8 San Pedro (6-4)

#12 Sylmar (8-2) at #5 Taft (8-2)

#13 Carson (4-6) at #4 Dorsey (5-5)

#14 El Camino Real (5-5) at #3 Garfield (8-2)

#11 Wilmington Banning (7-3)...

To no one's surprise, Narbonne has been seeded No. 1 for the City Section Division I football playoffs that begin on Friday.

A list of four new lethal injection drugs proposed by the state of California on Friday all belong to a class of medications that once promised an end to anxiety, sleeplessness and certain mental illnesses but are now routinely used to end the lives of both the guilty and the innocent.

In a South Los Angeles classroom, a boy hassles a girl. The teacher moves him to the back of the room, where he scowls, makes a paper airplane and repeatedly throws it against the wall. Two other boys wander around the class and then nearly come to blows.

Illeana Douglas was a teenager when she visited the set of the 1979 film classic "Being There," starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine and her beloved grandfather Melvyn Douglas, who would win his second supporting actor Oscar for the satire.

Ernst Lubitsch's enchanting 1943 comedy-fantasy "Heaven Can Wait" was the filmmaker's first film in Technicolor. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including best film and director, "Heaven" stars Don Ameche as newly deceased cad who recounts his life to Satan (a terrific Laird Cregar). Gene Tierney...

The helicopter crash that killed 13 people, including six Marines, during a humanitarian mission in Nepal last spring was "most probably" caused when the pilots decided to fly an unfamiliar route during bad weather, according to the Marine Corps.

Ask Democrats in South Carolina what they think of Bernie Sanders and the answer might just be: Who?

To say that the Ducks typically go the way their captain goes is probably an understatement.

One man's trash is another's man's trumpet.

In a remote dump near the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, a determined group of young musicians has been making music with instruments crafted from garbage. "Landfill Harmonic," a documentary about the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, screens Sunday at...

When Tina Padilla met Gabriela Calzada a year ago, the teenager was fresh out of juvenile camp. Calzada wore baggy clothes and a tough-girl attitude to go with her ankle bracelet. She wasn't regularly attending school.

A key figure in the 20th century art world whose soignée, jet-set existence concealed great pain and sadness, Peggy Guggenheim was a blue-blood force of nature who elevated art collecting to a noble pursuit while helping to launch the careers of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and other modern greats.

Shay Kostabi was a dancer and choreographer who found fitness. Her boyfriend, Jesse DeYoung, was a trainer who became a photographer. And an idea was born. Why not meld fitness and art?

CANADA

On a recent trip from Calgary, Alberta, to Nanaimo, British Columbia, by way of tour bus, train and ferry, we had two unexpectedly great culinary experiences. In Jasper, Alberta, we picked up a couple of sandwiches from the Patricia Street Deli to eat on the train. They were to die for....

When English teacher Johanna Bernstein assigned her students at Westchester High to read my column about a young man who'd been paralyzed in a shooting, she envisioned a lesson on vocabulary and composition:

Breaking with nearly seven decades of estrangement, the presidents of mainland China and Taiwan sat down for talks here Saturday -- the first such encounter between leaders of the two sides since the Nationalist Party lost the Chinese civil war in 1949 and retreated to the island.

Whether she's driving a hybrid car, installing solar panels on her roof or tearing up her beloved front lawn and replacing it with mulch, Carrie Wassenaar said, she wants to do her part for the environment.

Once again we've got tunes stuck in our heads. We're hankering to watch some old movies. And we'd like nothing better than to sit on the couch and grab the remote - in the interest of research, of course. Welcome to our world of uncommon occupational hazards. But what better reporting beat is there...

Salutations: It's the hap-hap-happiest time of the year here in the snug environs of Planet Food. And by that, I refer neither to the joyful week of stollen and dreidel-shaped cookies, nor to the annual celebration of Russ Parsons' mother's cranberry sauce, but to the release of the 101 Best Restaurants...