Business
Roland Spongberg started with one El Pollo Loco in 1988; now he has 192 franchise restaurants under several well-known brands, including Denny’s, Krispy Kreme, Wendy’s and Blaze Pizza.
July 28, 2019
World & Nation
Religion: A sect started unraveling when a former member found hints that one of its babies had died.
Sept. 17, 2000
California
A Big Bear man and his ex-girlfriend pleaded innocent Tuesday to murder and conspiracy charges in the 1991 beating death of his wife.
April 26, 1995
Music
Roland Hanna, a classically trained jazz pianist and composer known for his inventiveness at the keyboard and his thorough understanding of the roots of jazz and other styles of music, has died.
Nov. 16, 2002
MISSING IN ACTION: The Fine Young Cannibals are overdue for an album--so overdue, in fact, that some fans are wondering if the English trio hasn’t quietly checked into the rock ‘n’ roll graveyard.
Jan. 19, 1992
Movies
The Day After Tomorrow Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal Fox, $30 Director Roland Emmerich has destroyed most of America and the rest of world several times over in “Independence Day” and “Godzilla.”
Oct. 14, 2004
Bombing at the box office with breathtaking suddenness, “The Scarlet Letter,” directed by Roland Joffe and starring Demi Moore, is sure to be cited as an object lesson of what the fates can have in store for Hollywood when it attempts a “free adaptation” of a literary classic.
Nov. 5, 1995
A transient couple, accused of kidnaping and murdering a 14-year-old Chatsworth girl in 1987 and shooting a 13-year-old female companion, will be tried separately, a San Fernando Superior Court judge ruled Friday.
April 7, 1990
In “The Dark Tower,” Matthew McConaughey plays a figure known as the Man in Black, who turns out to be not a famed country-western singer but an extremely evil sorcerer.
Aug. 3, 2017
The world is destroyed in ‘The Day After Tomorrow,’ but this time it’s not much fun.
May 28, 2004