National: The US and China have agreed to hold regular talks about cyber security. American officials in recent months have accused Chinese hackers of breaking into industrial and defense computers and stealing enormous amounts of valuable information. The Chinese deny it, despite evidence discovered by cyber sleuths tracing the hack attacks back to a special unit of the People’s Liberation Army.

• High winds overnight blew up a wildfire in the Lake Hughes area near Palmdale, Ca. to 20,000 acres. Firefighters evacuated residents and at one point a fire station was reported surrounded by fire. At least five buildings were destroyed but it’s unknown whether they were homes or outbuildings.

World: A Hezbollah militant stronghold in Lebanon was mortared yesterday from inside Syria. Hezbollah is supporting the Syrian regime and the attack appears to have come from Syrian rebels.

Tube: AMC’s The Killing returns to life tonight with a new case in the rainy city. The Seattle based series killed itself by ending its first season with a cliffhanger and losing a million viewers. It was cancelled after the case was solved last year, leaving diehard fans ready to kill themselves. But The Killing was revived in a joint deal with the now program-hungry Netflix. Critics have the show on probation.

➢On the other side of the pond, fans of the popular BBC series “Dr. Who” were distressed to learn that the star of the show, Matt Smith, is departing, leaving viewers to wonder who will be Dr. Who.

Rehab: Oscar-winning actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman says he just finished 10 days in rehab after slipping back into heroin use. Hoffman says he had stayed straight for 23 years until a recent one-week binge.

The Obit Page: Actress Jean Stapleton, who brilliantly played the ditsy but wise Edith Bunker in the ground breaking television comedy “All in the Family” has died at age 90. Aauuuh Auchie! In the 1970s Stapleton played the long-suffering wife to Carroll O’Connor’s bone-headed Archie Bunker. Stapleton was an accomplished stage actress with a handful of screen credits when she was cast in one of the most popular shows in the history of television.

Get Me Rewrite: In the city of The Front Page, The Chicago Sun Times has fired all its professional photographers. Tabloid newspapers were once a photographer’s medium but the Sun Times says it will train reporters to take pictures with iPhones.

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