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The Mansfield Playhouse launches its 2023-2024 season on Friday night with the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic musical "Cinderella."

"Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar & Grill" is a play about denizens of a local bar dealing with the end of the world.

Coffins, fear and desperation: the Covid frontline in 10 pictures AFP 1/22/2021 © JENS SCHLUETER The coronavirus pandemic has shattered economies, left more than two million dead and paralysed lives. Vaccination drives are now trying to bring hope of a new dawn.  © Michael DANTAS Ten AFP photographs taken this month, and paired with quotes from 10 people from the scene, spotlight the fight against Covid-19, showing how ordinary people across the world despair as well as hope, and mourn a...

Font Size: The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) temporarily suspended cremation limits in Los Angeles County on Sunday to help crematoriums keep up with a “backlog” caused by the pandemic. The South Coast AQMD sets monthly limits for how many human remains can be cremated each month based on potential air quality impacts, according to a press release. The Los Angeles County Medical-Examiner Coroner and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health requested that the l...

Funeral home directors shared their warning in July. "We have bodies that are stacking up in our funeral homes," Continental Funeral Home Harold Cole told NBCLA then. Magnda Maldonado, with the low-income Continental Funeral Homes chain in LA County, says its getting worse now. "We are overwhelmed," Maldonado said. "Were almost fully stocked and theres nowhere else to put the decedents." Under state law, bodies must be either embalmed or refrigerated within 24 hours of death. With the COVID-19 ...

Funeral Home Owner Offers Grim Warning as Morgues Fill Up With COVID-19 Victims: ‘Mask It or Casket John Cádiz Klemack Funeral home directors shared their warning in July. "We have bodies that are stacking up in our funeral homes," Continental Funeral Home Harold Cole told NBCLA then. Magnda Maldonado, with the low-income Continental Funeral Homes chain in LA County, says its getting worse now. "We are overwhelmed," Maldonado said. "Were almost fully stocked and theres nowher...

Under state law, bodies must be either embalmed or refrigerated within 24 hours of death. With the COVID-19 protocol in place, many funeral homes have to use refrigeration for those bodies for at least 72 hours to make sure the threat of the virus is minimal. Its why storage space is at a premium. "I have had to turn some people away," said Candy Boyd, of Boyd Funeral Home in Westmont. Usually when business is booming, thats a good thing. But for the family-owned Boyd Funeral Home, it means far...