There had been discussions about a mass suicide. In some circles, there were practice drills,” one survivor recounted to The ...

Leo Ryan’s success in exposing Jones was no accident. The son of two journalists, the 53-year-old congressman had developed a rare expertise in investigating prisons.

Jackie Speier, an aide to Rep. Leo Ryan, is taken from a plane at Georgetown, Guyana, on Nov. 19, 1978, after its arrival from Jonestown, where Speier was shot five times and Ryan and four others ...

Father Donald L. Ryan (Don), 85, of Louisville, died on July 6, 2023 at Baptist Hospital. After graduating from St. Xavier High School, Don trained for the priesthood at Kenrick Seminary in St ...

Foster City and county leaders will review a plan to address a growing Canadian geese population.

Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana in 1978 to investigate reports of American cult leader Jim Jones holding hundreds of his followers captive. Ryan didn't make it out of Jonestown alive.

Speier was then a 28-year-old congressional staffer on a fact-finding mission with her boss, California Rep. Leo Ryan, at the People's Temple compound of cult leader Jim Jones.

Speier's boss, California Congressman Leo Ryan, wanted to investigate reports of abuse in Jonestown, where some of his San Francisco-area constituents were living.

Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. (May 5, 1925 – November 18, 1978) was an American teacher and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the U.S. representative from California's 11th ...

Seattle's current options on the team for the two infield spots are Ryan Bliss, Leo RIvas, Gold Glove winner Dylan Moore, Austin Shenton and Miles Mastrobuoni.

<p>Forty-five years later, what happened in Guyana, South America, is still shocking. More than 900 members of the Peoples Temple organization, a former San Francisco-based Disciples of Christ ...