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Airs Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

After nearly a half century on stage, San Diego Opera is taking its final bow on April 13. Its board voted 33-1 Wednesday to fold amid financial concerns.

Scientists have begun using radar to search for the body of Spain's most famous writer, Miguel de Cervantes, which is believed to be buried in a medieval convent in Madrid.

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the day a Hezbollah suicide bomber attacked the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon — killing 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers.

A racing mind and a pounding heart aren't all bad — the stress response can help humans and other animals deal with the unexpected. So what makes a vital system, that evolved to help us, turn toxic?

Army Staff Sgt. Alex A. Viola, 29, died Nov. 17 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Viola, a Green Beret, was killed when his unit was hit by a roadside bomb. He is the second Green Beret to die in Afghanistan in less than a week.

The 19 firefighters who died after being trapped by an Arizona wildfire in late June were only about 600 yards from a designated safety zone at a ranch, according to a task force formed by the Arizona State Forestry Division to investigate the firefighters' deaths.

Hope was a comedy trailblazer, but in his twilight years he alienated young audiences with his political views. "He had, unfortunately, stuck around too long," says Hope biographer Richard Zoglin.

The non-combat related death of Army Spc. Anthony R. Maddox, 22, is under investigation. Maddox died July 22 in a military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany from injuries related to an incident in Andar, Afghanistan.

In The Invisible Front, journalist Yochi Dreazen tells the story of the Grahams, a close-knit family that lost two sons in the span of a year and then took up the fight against military suicide.