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The Getty fire was creating a traffic nightmare Monday morning in one of Southern California’s worst commuting choke points. All lanes of the southbound 405 Freeway through the Sepulveda Pass, where the fire started, were closed, as were some offramps. Officials urged drivers to avoid the 405 as well as any canyon roads to the…

As the Getty fire was burning out of control early Monday, weather conditions were expected to worsen throughout the day. Winds around 5 a.m. at Franklin Canyon Park east of the Sepulveda Pass were 10 mph, with gusts of up to 17 mph, with a relative humidity of 23%, which is relatively dry, forecasters said.…

The explosive opening in the first episode of HBO’s “Watchmen,” with citizens of a black Tulsa, Okla., neighborhood being gunned down by white vigilantes, black businesses deliberately burned and even aerial attacks, has brought new attention to the nearly buried history of what the Oklahoma Historical Society calls “the single worst incident of racial violence…

There’s a reason the parable of the prodigal son deeply resonates with us, regardless of our relationship to the Bible. It’s the story of a lost son who has squandered it all and returns home to be met with unconditional love instead of scorn. By human nature, we are inspired by narratives of redemption. And…

SERIES The Neighborhood In a new episode Dave and Tina (Max Greenfield, Tichina Arnold) attend a concert together, where they discover a common bond. Back home, Gemma (Beth Behrs) seeks help when an unwelcome visitor takes up residence in her home. Cedric the Entertainer also stars. 8 p.m. CBS The Voice Taylor Swift serves as…

Before it burned to the ground during the 2017 wildfires, the tasting room and headquarters for the Signorello Estate winery in Napa was an ivy-covered, two-story edifice on a hillside, overlooking an expanse of oak trees and vineyards. Although a new tasting room and adjacent business offices have yet to be built, the winery has…

Actor Ralph Garman has listed his Studio City house for sale at $2.595 million. The Spanish home, built in 2007, has the requisite red-tile roof, arched doorways and wrought ironwork associated with the style. A two-story entry, a formal living room, a formal dining room and an eat-in kitchen with a butler’s pantry, a walk-in…

Through Oct. 27“Carved,” Descanso Gardens’ new nod to Halloween, features more than 1,000 professionally carved, glowing pumpkins along a one-mile walk through the garden’s Camellia Forest and Oak Grove. The event is designed to be family friendly, with special jack-o’-lanterns — some 100-pounds-plus — carved to look like superheroes and famous movie monsters. The event…

I’m never getting married. I’m never having kids! That was my dating mantra. I always knew I was destined to be the perpetual, quintessential bachelor, and I made no apologies for it. My house — complete with arcade-style pinball machines and video games, a Jacuzzi and a fully stocked bar — screamed: I’m single and…

MOSCOW —  Vladimir Bukovsky, a prominent Soviet-era dissident who became internationally known for exposing Soviet abuse of psychiatry, has died. He was 76. Bukovsky died of cardiac arrest on Sunday after a period of ill health in Cambridge, England, where he had settled after being deported from the Soviet Union in 1976, according to the Bukovsky…