Can you believe it's been a year since James Kim died in the Oregon mountains? We're very sorry to pass along the news that another Northern California family is missing in what we're hoping is not going to be another family holiday tragedy story. The Dominguez family went out last Sunday to cut down Christmas trees in the Sierra mountains: the father, Frederick, and his three children, Christopher (18), Alexis (15), and Joshua (12). That's......

When we go on vacation, we always worry somewhat paranoiacally that our house has burned down, or that the ants have taken over, or that we left all the major appliances running and the iron and the dishwasher are plotting their coup -- but coming home from a two-week vacation and finding a dead body is not a scenario that had occurred to us! The vacationer mentioned that he did have a catsitter coming in......

--They've arrested the guy who said he attacked Elie Wiesel. Gleegate attackers still at large. --Will you be underwater when global warming comes? --The only family members at James Kim's well-attended public memorial were wife Kati Kim (with their two children) and James's sister Eva. --Gavin Newsom's approval numbers are still in the 70% range, but someone's been trying to break into his house. --There's more human bones in the Santa Cruz mountains. --An......

-Woman in San Francisco who was mysteriously shot in the head several weeks ago died last night.. -Memorial for James Kim set for Feb. 17 -Discussion on increasing toll fares on the Golden Gate Bridge postponed so more studying can be done. -Presidential candidates are California dreaming on such a winter's day. -Members of California GOP not very happy with the Governator. -TransLink cards finally sees the light of day. SFist is upset we didn't......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

Before we go into our craft blog round-up for the week we wanted to be sure to give a nod to the great work Lisa Congdon and her family did on the art auction for the Kim family. Lisa, Gerrie Congdon, and Stephanie Barnes organized an amazingly successful auction which raised a total of $16,899.11. The generosity of both the people who bid and the talented artists who donated their work was astounding. All......

-Pelosi starts right in with the San Francisco values: bans smoking. -The Governor's health care plan could supercede San Francisco's health care plan. ...

It's the annual Best Of post, the one post in the year where I get to use the first person singular! Hooray! From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the Chron's series about police brutality getting upstaged by their misidentification of the cop in question; Kimberly Guilfoyle's new boyfriend,......

-Leader of the tree-hugging hippies who were hugging trees at Berkeley was cited and released for trespassing on campus. Apparently, he made the mistake of coming and going from tree. -Board of Supes quibble with each other over a lobbying firm being awarded a contract. -Mountain road gate James Kim walked through wasn't vandalized as first thought, but was just left unlocked. -Cameras might be put on DPT cars in light of the surge of......

We admit it's been kind of a downer here lately with all the people passing away we've had to write about. First there was James Kim, then Phillyist editor Star, and then today, Leslie Harpold. So we give you this photo to remind everyone of just what it's all about...cute, furry kittens. ...

In the wake of the James Kim media coverage, the Oakland Tribune and the Chron follow up on a Berkeley family who's been looking for their son, 23-year-old Wallace Richards (pictured at left) for a year, with no leads. Wallace Richards had dropped off a dancer friend outside the Hustler Club around 11 a.m. on November 10, 2005, with the promise to get the oil changed in her gold Mercedes and to come back and......

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly....

This is not a post we're happy to be writing, and probably not a post you're happy to be reading either. As everyone knows by now, the autopsy of James Kim was inconclusive about the time he died, and honestly, that's probably not something that we as members of the public need to know about anyways. And the mainstream media has done an admirable job (Rick Sanchez aside) of summarizing the tragic errors the......

Our thoughts, sympathy, and condolences at SFist go out to the family, friends, and coworkers of James Kim. We weren't the only ones following the story -- SFGate reports that the story has driven over 2 million additional hits to their website over the last few days, and after the news of James Kim's death was announced, they were receiving 3300 page views a minute. Other online news outlets reported similar spikes. Something about the......

Law enforcement officials have confirmed that James Kim has died. Friends of the family have set up an unofficial PayPal donation page, though they warn you that they haven't talked to the Kim family about it yet. The thought is that the family can decide where to send the money after it's collected. It looks like you have to go through their page to make the donation, so if the page is busy, keep......

Update: They're waiting on confirmation of status. Rescuers are saying they saw a flash in a wooded area. Others are saying that they've heard news reports that he wasn't face down. All the news is kind of crazy right now; we're going to wait until we get something official before posting anything else. They've found him. Searchers spotted a person who appears to be lying face down. No word on his condition yet. --- Here's......

Update: They've got a scaled-down night crew working. Here's the most recent CNET article. Also, some biographical information about the couple. --- Previously: The pants found were a second pair of pants James was carrying, and not the jeans James was last seen wearing -- so they were probably left as a trail marker. Press conference is underway. There's a summary of the press conference at Guestbook entry 1733: One rescuer was injured today (non-life-threatening),......

Nothing definitive yet on the missing Noe Valley family. Parents James and Kati Kim were traveling back from Washington in the family station wagon (license plate DOESF) with daughters Penelope and Sabine when they disappeared a week ago today on the way to the Tu Tu Tun Lodge on the Oregon coast. The weather was reported to have been very bad that Saturday. The latest news is that they have a confirmed sighting of the......