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LAGUNA WOODS, CA - JANUARY 04: A Life After Life club meeting takes place on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025 at Laguna Woods Village in Laguna Woods, CA. It was founded in 2006 to provide "public education about experiences that suggest continued consciousness beyond death" according to their website. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

What the dead have to say to the living: Lessons from a psychic reading

The Life After Life Club in an Orange County retirement community explores trance channeling, the power of animal communication and near-death experiences. It recently hosted a psychic.

Ahmed Bellozo,48,on North Frontage Road in Highland, CA., near a homeless encampment January 30, 2025.

After decades in prison, he transformed himself into the Inland Empire’s homeboy news anchor

ALTADENA, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Dog handler Karen Atkinson puts Quincy, a human remains detection dog, to work on finding the location of cremated remains at a house in Altadena, CA on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. Volunteer archaeologists work with the Alta Heritage Foundation to help find cremated remains at fire-destroyed locations. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Lost in a sea of ash: When wildfire destroys a home — and a loved one’s urn — the search begins

CULVER CITY, CA - FEBRUARY 18, 2025 - - Pacific Palisades resident Louvenia Jenkins, 96, recalls her evacuation from the Palisades fire while seated in the living room of her apartment at a independent retirement community for seniors in Culver City on February 18, 2025. Jenkins, a longtime educator and mentor in the LAUSD, lost her home of more than 50 years in the fire. She was one of the first Black female homeowners in Pacific Palisades. I was reared to be strong, resourceful," Jenkins said. "This is a time to be strong. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

She was one of the first Black homeowners in the Palisades. At 96, she is starting over

Don’t call them ‘extras.’ For one night, Hollywood’s background actors are the real stars

Despite the odds, Forrest Gump survived. When wildfires came, so did his bench

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