The district attorney's office announced yesterday that Wallace Richardson, 65, the driver of the UCSF shuttle bus that collided with a big rig last summer at Octavia and Oak resulting in the death of Dr. Kevin Mack, has been charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. As S.F. Examiner reports, witnesses say that the driver was involved in a conversation with Mack prior to running the red light. UCSF has since installed seat belts on its shuttles, and some of the routes have been changed to allow drivers more time. more ›

The single fatality in yesterday's early morning collision at Octavia and Oak has been identified as 52-year-old UCSF professor Dr. Kevin Mack, a psychiatrist, who was on his way to work. Mack was ejected from the UCSF shuttle bus that was involved in the crash and landed underneath the big-rig vehicle transport. He was pronounced dead at the scene. more ›

Even though the formal Mavericks surf competition got scuttled this year, about a dozen well known big-wave surfers gathered yesterday to surf the break anyway, and one of them drowned. As the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports, 35-year-old Sion Milosky, an accomplished big-wave surfer who lived in Kauai, wiped out on a large wave (think: 60 feet), and then got held underwater by two consecutive waves at around 6:30 p.m.. more ›

We had no idea Walnut Creek life could be so brutal: While attending the memorial service last night for their teenage son Matthew Miller, who was killed last weekend while rafting with friend Gavin Powell, 17, in the swollen Walnut Creek waterway. more ›

A 36-year-old man collapsed and died right after crossing the finish line of the Kaiser Permanente Half Marathon Sunday morning. The man has just been identified as 36-year-old Peter Hass of Orinda. Witnesses say that five race volunteers rushed to perform CPR on Hass following a confused scene, and the Chron reports that it took 20 minutes before paramedics arrived, due in part because the SFFD dispatcher was given three different locations for the incident. more ›

San Francisco-based company 1000Memories, a free site that provides a forum for friends and families to pay tribute to their deceased loved ones, has created its first group memorial page, "Egypt Remembers." The page is being updated via a collaborative Google Doc that anyone can access and update. 1000Memories' goal is to honor everyone who lost their lives in the revolution. So, please help spread the word. more ›

As most news orgs are reporting this morning, the official fatality count from last night's gas main explosion and ongoing fire in San Bruno is 4 people, with 52 suffering injuries that required hospitalization, including 4 firefighters who suffered smoke inhalation. That count is expected to rise, however, as search and rescue efforts continue, and as the most badly burned are treated at area hospitals. more ›

Only one Golden Girl remains, ladies and gentlemen, and it's Betty White. Rue McLanahan has died of a massive stroke at the age of 76. more ›

We don't know the full details just yet, but we'd heard that former child star Gary Coleman was hospitalized in Utah after falling in his home, and he has now died at the age of 42 of an intercranial hemorrhage. Here, People has an obituary, which they'd obviously been preparing just in case. Above, in lieu of Keyboard Cat playing him off, we give you this swell YouTube tribute. more ›

Not to be a total bummer this Monday Tuesday morning, but let's get this quick wrap-up over with.

• Two teens are being held in conjunction with the shooting death of a 13-year-old in East Oakland.
• A motorcyclist crashed and died after giving chase to the CHP in San Jose at 2 a.m. last night.
• Don't know if you heard about this terrible drunk driving crash over the weekend which killed a mother, her brother, and left two twin toddlers in critical condition.
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Congressman Tom Lantos died this morning from esophageal cancer at the age of 80. He represented most of the Sunset, as well as a big chunk of San Mateo County. He was the only survivor of the Holocaust to be elected to Congress, and worked for years on human rights issues. That said, he ticked off quite a few people locally by supporting the Iraq war, although he had recently been pretty critical of the way things were going Over There. Before he died, he endorsed State Sen. Jackie Speier as his successor - no word yet on whether the Governator will decide to hold a special election (that would be our fourth of the year if he does) to replace him. more ›

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Two people were killed this morning after a single-alarm fire broke out at the Star of India restaurant on Polk and Broadway. "The kitchen was fully involved in flames when firefighters arrived," said San Francisco Fire Department Lt. Mindy Talmadge according to Bay City News. The bodies were found in a loft space just above the kitchen. Also, "one firefighter's foot fell through the floor of the loft," prompting the crew to leave until... more ›