Park gets new playground equipment (Curry Coastal Pilot)

A new playground took shape this week at Easy Manor Park. The crayon box-hued metal and plastic structure features six slides, a rock-climbing wall, balance beams, monkey bars, a trapeze ladder, cargo nets, swing sets and more. Area children are already eying the prize. “It’s like a dream come true,” one youngster told park- workers.

Funeral Procession For Sen. Kennedy Arrives In Boston (Slideshow) (WBUR Boston)

A motorcade carrying the body of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy passed miles of mourners Thursday as it proceeded from the Cape Cod home where he spent his final days to the presidential library bearing the name of one of his slain brothers.

Judge Rules to Allow Sale of Polygamous Sect's Land, Berry Knoll (FOX 13 Utah)

A Utah judge has ordered the sale of a 400-acre parcel of land that is part of a communal property trust established by followers of jailed polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs. In a ruling issued Monday, 3rd District Court Judge Denise Lindberg says a liquidity crisis of the United Effort Plan Trust makes the sale of Berry Knoll necessary. The land-rich but cash-poor trust has about $3 million ...

Action! Insider notes, behind-the-scenes biz of Hollywood's moviemakers (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Johnny Depp wants to take his favorite childhood TV show, vampire thriller “Dark Shadows,” to the big screen. Depp and regular collaborator, director Tim Burton, hope to turn the 1960s series — about a man struck down with a vampire curse — into a movie franchise.

"Bare: The Musical" **1/2 (Denver Post)

Fledging company promises to donate money from every show to nonprofits. But all is not right with the company's debut story, a grab-bag of standard problems facing adolescents including sexual identity, drugs, teen pregnancy, parental estrangement, religion, morality, mortality and homosexuality. Kurt Brighton's rating: **1/2

IFPD audits still dubious (Idyllwild Town Crier)

While the Idyllwild Fire Protection District (IFPD) Commission awaits completion of the agency’s financial audits for fiscal years 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08, President Paul Riggi has authorized the same firm, Smith Marion & Company of Murrieta, to conduct IFPD’s 2008-09 audit, too.

Thinking Depply (Broward-Palm Beach New Times)

Everyone loves Johnny Depp. He has done some great movies, and a few not-so-great ones ( Secret Window comes to mind). Tonight, Undergrounds Coffeehaus will show two. Benny & Joon is the unconventional romantic comedy with a kooky Sam winning the heart of the even kookier Joon. Edwar...