Sports
Rob Jones, whose grandfather was an infamous cult leader, plays basketball for San Diego. He is determined to move forward.
Nov. 22, 2007
Jim Irsay says Colts looking to deal -- maybe Maurice Jones-Drew?
Aug. 23, 2012
Travel & Experiences
“Dog treed a mountain lion last night; coffee’s over there,” John Jones drawled, offering his first words to a couple of unfamiliar flatlanders up poking around in his neck of the woods one morning.
Jan. 19, 1986
California
Tim Stoen, once legal advisor to Jim Jones, who presided over the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana, is to be Humboldt County assistant district attorney.
Dec. 20, 2002
World & Nation
“Do you want me to pull back the heavens and show you my anger?”
April 23, 1993
Movies
A documentary on the mass murder-suicide, with interviews of its few survivors, is calm, thorough and utterly harrowing.
Oct. 27, 2006
Politics
The Bay Area’s Jackie Speier is retiring after more than 40 years in public life that began when she was shot five times in a deadly ambush in Guyana.
Jan. 2, 2023
This is where the followers of the Peoples Temple are gathered: a mass grave with more than 400 bodies marked only by a single tombstone.
Nov. 19, 1993
On Nov. 18, 1978, at a jungle commune in Guyana called Jonestown, 914 men, women and children died in a mass murder-suicide.
June 5, 1988
Books
A biography, with recipes. A collection of reminiscences, also with recipes.
Dec. 27, 1990