(Like Heaven’s Gate) Some Members Also Believe a Spaceship Will Deliver Their Souls From Earth Sunday, March 30, 1997Section: MAIN NEWS, Page: A8BYLINE: By Susan Pack, Staff writer Sometimes, as he sat in the church...

HQ of controversial sect spared as bomb misfires. LONG BEACH, Press-Telegram — An attempt to blow up the headquarters of a controversial religious sect failed yesterday when a small primary explosion alerted police. Ten...

Desert Sun — Number 57 — October 9 1986 LONG BEACH (AP) – A cult that claims it can cure AIDS arranged sham marriages to subvert immigration laws and discouraged childbearing, saying the end of the...

Morningland “healing” church lives on in L.B. despite criticism Ranks decimated by death, purges, scandal, state investigation By Larry Keller, Staff writer, Long Beach Press Telegram He was the son of Italian...

Feb 1984 State to pursue charges against cult leader Prosecutors will pursue four-year-old bribery conspiracy charges against a Morningland cult leader in light of an appellate ruling this week that allows the state...

Sept 15, 1981, Press Telegram VISTA (AP) – Attorney Edward Masry, exonerated of charges that he solicited a $10,000 bribe three years ago allegedly destined for California Lt. Gov. Mervin Dymally, plans to appeal his...