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Freeway

Director/Writer: Matthew Bright Director of Photography: John Thomas Music: Danny Elfman Production Designer: Pam Warner Producers: Chris Hanley and Brad Wyman Roxie; R…

Gardena

(Encyclopedia) Gardena Gardena gärdēˈnə [key], city (2020 pop. 61,027), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., an industrial…

Fullerton

(Encyclopedia) Fullerton, city (2020 pop. 143,617), Orange co., S Calif., SE of Los Angeles; founded 1887, inc. 1904. The city is named for George H.…

Franklin, Aretha

(Encyclopedia) Franklin, Aretha, 1942–2018, American singer and pianist, b. Memphis. The daughter of the well-known minister C. L. Franklin, she began singing in the choir of his Detroit Baptist…

America's 25 Worst Highway Bottlenecks, 2012

Each year, the Daily Beast compiles a list of the country's worst bottlenecks using data supplied by INRIX, a traffic tracking and analyzing company. Their Traffic Index collects data from 100…

Mikail Markhasev, 1997 News

son of actor Bill Cosby, was killed on January 16 as he was changing a tire near a freeway in Los Angeles. An 18-year-old Ukranian immigrant, Mikail Markhasev, was arrested in mid-March and…

NFL Football

 Arizona (NFC): Construction on a new home for the Arizona Cardinals and Fiesta Bowl is well underway. The 63,000-seat stadium will be located in Glendale, Ariz. 15 miles west of Phoenix)…

Archibald Alphonso Alexander Biography

Archibald Alphonso Alexanderdesign and construction engineerBorn: 1888 A 1912 recipient of a civil engineering degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Archibald “Archie” Alexander…

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin was called "The Queen of Soul" and "Lady Soul," nicknames that were a tribute to her regal style and impassioned gospel-tinged vocals. The daughter of Rev. C. L. Franklin, a Detroit…

Kiefer Sutherland

Name at birth: Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus SutherlandKiefer Sutherland is the star of the TV series 24. The show, with Sutherland as counter-terrorism expert Jack Bauer, broke…