After last night's fire in the Mission displaced over 50 San Franciscans, an early morning East Oakland blaze at 2640 74th Avenue proved fatal, killing two men. It seems that the two died during a botched rescue attempt. The first victim "fled the fire along with other occupants of the house. But the man apparently rushed back into the house in an attempt to rescue the other man," Oakland Police Sgt. Barry Donelan tells......

Updated with picture from SFist reader Oscar. Thanks, Oscar. Here's the Google Street View picture of the house. This is an SFist News Flash: a tipster reports that there's a house fire going on right now in Twin Peaks. The phrase "up in flames surprisingly quickly" was used to describe the situation. Oh noes! Traffic will probably be diverted, so plan your travel accordingly. Our sympathy goes to all parties involved.......

Well, that's kind of a cinematically creepy incident -- the SFPD are investigating an accident where it turned out a 43-year-old man who crashed his car into a house on 29th and Santiago in the Sunset had been shot. The collision started a small house fire which was quickly extinguished. Investigators have said that several shots were heard in the area at the time, and several other cars were hit with bullets as well. Were......

Remember the folks in Atherton whose high-quality wine was stolen from their cellar (about $145K worth)? Turns out it was their maid and her boyfriend. (For many reasons, this crime would never have happened to us, we'd just like to say.) The police set up a sting operation where the owners asked the maid to clean the house, and saw her on a hidden camera run into the cellar (where there was no cleaning to......

Here's a wrapup of today's news...

An instant replay technician for the Raiders was busted with coke. An instant replay technician for the Raiders was busted with coke. A house on 20th and Treat in the Mission burned down Thursday afternoon. In other house fire news, on Tuesday morning, a house in the Berkeley hills burned down too. And Castro residents are on edge after a number of muggings in the area, even though the crime numbers in the neighborhood haven't......

The SF Zoo is mourning the death of Pogo, one of the oldest gorillas at the zoo, who had been suffering declining health over the past few years. Pogo seems to have been subjected to a fair amount of anthropomorphism, in the way that only happens with loved animals -- she liked to read National Geographic (but the zookeepers didn't show her nature videos, because they thought they were too violent), loved to dress up,......

A woman crossing Van Ness at Jackson was struck and killed by a 27 Bryant bus at about 6:30 a.m. yesterday. Pedestrians are rallying for better countdown crosswalk lights and increased driver awareness, and investigators think the bus driver might have been blinded by the rising sun. A SF State student fell to his death off a dorm stairwell over the weekend. SF State says he may have been leaning over the stairwell to watch a fight going on below. The dorm has a ban on parties, and students can be fined $100. Interestingly, though, there's no ban on alcohol. The student had been at SFSU since 2002, but wasn't enrolled in any classes this semester. And CBS 5 anchor Doug Murphy, who had recently taken a medical leave from the station, was killed in a house fire Sunday night. Fire investigators are looking into the cause of the fire, which was found to have started in the attic of the Lafayette house. The local news community and CBS 5 viewers are pretty shaken up about the whole thing (we saw Vicki Liviakis break down on KRON 4 when the news was confirmed). ...