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The Los Angeles Rams opened the 21-day practice window for veteran right tackle Rob Havenstein on Thursday, creating the possibility for their longtime starter to return from injured reserve this season. Havenstein is the longest-tenured member of the Rams’ current roster, and he has been a stalwart starter at right tackle when healthy since his rookie season in St. Louis in 2015. He has started 148 games over 11 seasons for the Rams along with 13 playoff starts, including two Super Bowls. NFL Jan 6 How many wild-card teams have won the Super Bowl in NFL history? Super Bowl Jan 20 Ranking the 4 potential Super Bowl matchups from best to worst But injuries have limited Havenstein to 18 games over the past two seasons. He has played in just seven games this season, last appearing in the Rams’ 21-19 victory over Seattle at SoFi Stadium in mid-November before being sidelined by an ankle injury and knee bursitis. The Rams (14-5) visit the Seahawks (16-3) on Sunday for the NFC championship game. After spending most of the past two months watching from the sideline during practice, Havenstein was back on the field with the Rams at their training complex in Woodland Hills on Thursday, participating in warmups during the brief portion open to reporters. Warren McClendon Jr. has generally played well since replacing Havenstein in the starting lineup this season, although he had a few glaring mistakes in the Rams’ 20-17 overtime victory at Chicago last Sunday in the divisional round. Havenstein and tight end Tyler Higbee are the only players who have been on the Rams’ roster for coach Sean McVay’s entire nine-year tenure, including both of Los Angeles’ previous Super Bowl playoff runs in the 2018 season and the 2021 season. “Rob and Tyler, these are rare humans,” McVay said Thursday. “They’re great football players, but they’re great leaders, and they have such respect from the locker room. … You look at the wisdom that Rob has in the meeting room to pour into Warren and really our offensive line as a whole. These are two all-time guys. These are legacy Rams. Obviously they’re special to me.”

A person was found dead inside a home Thursday after firefighters extinguished a blaze in Boyle Heights. LAFD firefighters responded to the single-family house fire along Soto Street near the 5 and 10 Freeway interchange. Firefighters discovered the deceased person after extinguishing the fire in about 19 minutes, the LAFD said. Details on the deceased were not immediately available. The LAFD says the blaze was an outside fire that reached one side of the house. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

An airborne Tesla slammed into a house early Friday after it crashed off the 5 Freeway in Pacoima. The car ended up in the living room of the San Fernando Valley house, where a man had been sleeping on a couch. Members of the LAFD’s urban search and rescue team were called to the scene. The resident and driver were hospitalized. Details about the severity of their injuries were not immediately available. The Tesla was removed from the house and towed from the scene early Friday. One wall of the heavily damaged home was boarded up.

Three people were killed in Phelan, San Bernardino County Friday following a head-on collision involving two cars, officials said. The San Bernardino County Fire Department said it received a call at around 6:55 a.m. about a crash involving a Tesla and a Cadillac SUV on Palmdale Road near Highway 18. The impact of the crash caused the vehicles catch fire, fire officials said. When first responders arrived at the scene, three people in the cars suffered fatal injuries. Pacoima 9 hours ago Tesla flies off freeway and crashes into Pacoima home Long Beach 20 hours ago Car crashes into Bixby Knolls shop as traffic violence surpasses homicides in Long Beach The identifies of the victims were not immediately available. “This is not an uncommon situation,” a fire officials told NBC Los Angeles Monday. As the investigation into the crash continued, officials did not say which car was going the wrong way.