Новости за 30.12.2016

Saturday’s bowl games

Citrus: No. 13 Louisville (9-3) vs. No. 20 Louisiana State (7-4), at Orlando, 8 a.m., Channel 7 — Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson, meet the best defense you have faced all season, the one that shut out top-ranked Alabama for three quarters and held the Crimson Tide to...

Investigators are trying to determine how a Texas woman fell to her death from a chairlift at a small Colorado ski resort.

During the bowl season, the Los Angeles Times’ college football experts — it’s how they refer to themselves — will make choices on the upcoming week of games. Warning: If they could accurately predict results, they wouldn’t be reporters or editors. Their picks for Week 3:

The U.S. Navy for decades has deployed bottlenose dolphins to search for underwater mines and detect enemy divers. Now, the versatile sea mammals and their San Diego-based trainers are preparing for an unprecedented challenge: locating some of the few surviving vaquita porpoises in Mexico’s Upper...

Today in Entertainment: Debut of Debbie Reynolds-Carrie Fisher documentary pushed up Dec. 30, 2016, 11:08 a.m. Here's what's new and interesting in the world of entertainment and the arts today: HBO announces it has moved up debut of 'Bright Lights' Backlash forces Steve Martin to delete Twitter...

The country is in the throes of a major epidemic, with no known cure and some pretty scary symptoms. It's called Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, and it’s rapidly spreading from the point of origin — the political class — to the population at large.

The chief executive of a beverage distribution company and his family were among six people on a plane that disappeared overnight shortly after takeoff from Cleveland's lakeshore airport, his family said Friday.

Barbara Tarbuck, a stage and screen actress who played Jane Jacks on “General Hospital” and Mother Superior Claudia on “American Horror Story: Asylum,” has died. She was 74. 

Today in Entertainment: Debut of Debbie Reynolds-Carrie Fisher documentary pushed up Dec. 30, 2016, 11:08 a.m. Here's what's new and interesting in the world of entertainment and the arts today: HBO announces it has moved up debut of 'Bright Lights' Backlash forces Steve Martin to delete Twitter...

Today in Entertainment: Debut of Debbie Reynolds-Carrie Fisher documentary pushed up Dec. 30, 2016, 11:08 a.m. Here's what's new and interesting in the world of entertainment and the arts today: HBO announces it has moved up debut of 'Bright Lights' Backlash forces Steve Martin to delete Twitter...

Clippers Coach Doc Rivers said there was a “99.9%” chance that Chris Paul won’t play Friday night against the Houston Rockets and it was “probable” that J.J. Redick will play in the game at the Toyota Center.

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‘The OA’ on Netflix: A propulsively structured story from “Another Earth” creator Brit Marling, this series arrived like some kind of surprise stocking stuffer for those looking to ride out a post-holiday hangover and/or coverage of current events. While binge-able, mystery-driven shows...

I have played with several virtual reality systems over the last few years, but just recently bought my own PlayStation VR headset for my family. It’s pretty whiz-bang. Although VR still has kinks (including motion sickness for many users), it’s impressive how well even these first-generation consumer...

The rap group Run-DMC filed a $50-million lawsuit in New York accusing Wal-Mart, Amazon, Jet and other retailers of selling products that traded on the group's name without permission. 

Southern California’s wet winter will continue Friday and into Saturday, as storms move through the region carrying rain, thunder and up to two inches of snow in the mountains, according to weather officials. 

Directors can use all kinds of tricks to get actors in the shooting spirit.

Are you going to order the garlic shredded pork the first time you visit the Legendary Restaurant? You are probably going to order the garlic shredded pork. You may be expecting a stir-fry, but what is brought to the table looks like a tie rack you might find in a Hammacher Schlemmer catalog tucked...

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has identified the woman who died after the car she was driving rammed through a guard rail and plummeted off a downtown overpass onto the 110 Freeway early Thursday morning.

Never mind that No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Ohio State will battle each other on Saturday night for a spot in college football’s national championship game.

Los Angeles police are asking for the public's help in locating a young couple who failed to return from a Christmas weekend trip to Big Sur.

To the editor: Kudos to The Times for its story on the big projects of big real-estate developers and their obvious — and probably natural — approval by the elected representatives who get large amounts from them as donations. These worthies include Major Eric Garcetti and other Los Angeles City...

A Sacramento Uber driver is being credited for helping save a 16-year-old girl from child sex trafficking.

Theater loves metaphor, so let’s call John Perrin Flynn, the artistic director of the Rogue Machine theater company in L.A., our Ghost of Christmas Future as we face the big question for 2017: As controversial new wage rules kick in for the city’s small theaters, will the local scene thrive or...

A game-by-game look at USC’s 2016 football season:

Alabama 52, USC 3

Sept. 3 at Arlington Texas 

The good: USC led 3-0 after the first quarter. The bad: pretty much everything that happened afterward. Alabama outgained USC, 465-194. USC rushed for 64 yards. USC blew defensive assignments, turned...

For more than three decades, fans of KTLA’s top-rated coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade have relied on the dynamic duo of hosts Stephanie Edwards and Bob Eubanks to describe the beauteous procession while bringing in the new year. This year’s broadcast will mark another fresh start — the...