California
Korean War veteran Merrill Newman, 85, arrives back in the U.S. after six weeks in captivity in North Korea.
Dec. 7, 2013
Visiting veteran held by North Korea happy to be back home
Buyers of the 19 facilities for sale in California would have to run them as acute care centers.
Feb. 5, 2004
Merrill Newman, an 85-year-old Korean War veteran who was arrested in October while visiting North Korea, was greeted by his wife and son when he arrived at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday after being released following 42 days in custody.
Freed from North Korea, Merrill Newman is greeted by family in S.F.
Entertainment & Arts
Paul Newman will return to the Great White Way in December to appear in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” his first foray onto a Broadway stage since the 1964 comedy “Baby Wants a Kiss.”
Sept. 27, 2002
Music
Graham Nash has asked a few of his good buddies--David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Jackson Browne and Randy Newman--to join him Saturday in a four-hour broadcast designed to raise money for UNICEF and other children’s organizations.
Nov. 7, 1988
Archives
Unless the nature of his career has included the incoherent, hallucinatory, delusional thinking characteristic of a schizophrenic psychosis, Stephen J.
June 15, 1997
World & Nation
With scientists warning that singing can spread the coronavirus, choirs have fallen silent. Singing over Zoom falls flat, but one inventive baritone has found a way to let many harmonize together.
Dec. 30, 2020
A startling thing happened last weekend.
Oct. 15, 1995