SF News 'Dynasty' Star John Forsythe Dies Although he brutally raped Krystal and killed his son's boyfriend during a fit of unbridled homophobic rage, Blake Carrington still remains one of TV's much-loved silver foxes. Sadly, John Forsythe, the smooth-voiced actor
SF News Caltrain Kills Another Pedestrian Has another train line anywhere else in the country been so frequently homicidal as our little Peninsula-bound rail? Caltrain struck and killed someone in San Bruno this morning around 6:30 a.m.
SF News Woman Riding Ferry Falls Overboard, Dies An unidentified female was found in the San Francisco Bay off Point Alameda this morning, an hour after the captain of a commuter ferry reported a "man overboard." Happening a little after 9:
SF News Academy of Art President Speaks Out About North Beach Student's Murder The Academy of Art University's famously prickly president, Elisa Stephens, spoke about the recent murder of Luis Armando Prieto, who was killed in North Beach last week be a car fleeing a shooting.
SF News (UPDATE) Muni <s>Fatality</s> Accident at Mission and Santa Rosa Breaking Muni-related news coming in this morning, so breaking it merits CBS 5's scary red border box of alarm: "There are reports of a fatal accident involving an SF Muni bus and a
SF News SFist Blotter: Richmond vs. Vallejo A homecoming dance gang rape under the watch of high school principals, ice cream truck employee shot by a teenager, noontime baseball bat beating deaths, brutal teen mob attacks -- which city is
SF News Woman Struck, Killed by Amtrak Train in Oakland Vanessa Hunt, 55, of Oakland died Wednesday while running to cross the train tracks. Hunt, it seems, "tried to beat the train and run across the tracks, bypassing lowered crossing barriers at 85th
SF News Frisbee Inventor Died It's a sad day for golden retrievers and ultimate Frisbee players: Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the Frisbee, died of lung cancer on Feb. 9. He was 90. "Inspiration for Mr. Morrison's
SF News Woman Killed By SFPUC Vehicle A woman, 63-year-old Xiu Fang Huang, died Tuesday afternoon after being stuck and killed by a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission vehicle. She was crossing the street at Ocean and Miramar when she
SF News J. D. Salinger Dies Reclusive author J.D. Salinger died. He was 91. Salinger was best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, and its 1961 follow-up, Franny and Zooey. Of the countless writers
SF News Dead Body Found Near Walnut Creek High School The body of a dead man was found this morning a little after 8 a.m. near Walnut Creek's Las Lomas High School, reports CBS 5. The unidentified man is believed to have
SF News R.I.P. Brittany Murphy Seeing as 2009 has been unrelenting in its taking of famous types, we can't ignore the death of one of Hollywood's younger third of movie stars: Brittany Murphy, who died at the age
SF News SF Man Dies in House Fire Over in Merced Heights, an 83-year-old man died during a fire. SF Chron reports: "James Childs was found inside his home on the 200 block of Byxbee Street east of Junipero Serra Boulevard
SF News Scene from Today's Don Fisher Memorial Service "Festive atmosphere so far, but I suspect emotions are coming.," reports the photog whpo shot the image from today's Don Fischer memorial. Gap founder Don Fisher, if you recall, died in September. He
SF News Gap Founder Don Fisher Dies After a long battle with cancer, Gap founder and third-generation San Franciscan Don Fisher died on Sunday. He was 81. Co-founding the wildly successful clothing retailer in 1969 with his wife, Doris --
SF News Caltrain Strikes Again, Fatality Reported At Bellevue In San Mateo According to the following Twitter message it did, Just this afternoon. wlynes - "My @caltrain NB 261 just hit somebody. It's going to be a long trip. No sudden stop immediately prior, he
SF News Caltrain Kills One In Redwood City At about 4:50 p.m. yesterday in Redwood City, a southbound train collided with a Honda near Whipple Avenue and El Camino Real. KTVU reports, "the driver and sole occupant of the
SF News Man Found Along the J-Church Line Dies This morning, a 58-year-old man died "after being found between a curb and San Francisco Municipal Railway light-rail tracks" at Church Street at 22nd Street a little after 9 a.m. This resulted
SF News Cocaine Killed Billy Mays Seeing as how he had such a boisterous voice and leap-off-the-screen-like presence, this should come as little surprise. Famed TV pitchman Billy Mays, whose overly-enthusiastic adoration for OxiClean and Orange Glo helped Mays
SF News John Hughes Died Creator of Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, and The Breakfast Club, director/writer John Hughes, died today. According to TMZ, "Hughes suffered [a] heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip
SF News Man Killed After Walking Into I-80 Traffic Kristian Valmadrid, a 29-year-old Roseville man, according to CBS 5, walked into the path of a big-rig on eastbound Interstate Highway 80 Wednesday morning, just south of the Carquinez Bridge," resulting in his
SF News Update: Mother, Daughter Killed by Riptide While swimming in the water at Montara State Beach on Monday afternoon, a mother and daughter were yanked in by a riptide. Several people, in fact, got caught up in the rip current.
SF News Billy Mays Found Dead Billy Mays, 50, famously loud and bearded informmercial spokesman, died this morning. (Egads! First Ed, Farrah, Jackson, now this. Too much to bear, folks.) According to reports, Mays finished wrapping up an Oxiclean
SF News Michael Jackson Memorial Ride Tonight According to Twitter reports, "Mourn MJ SF-style tonight: Michael Jackson trike ride and flash dance. Starts @ 7 at Dolores Park. Winds down @ Ferry Plaza at 8:30." Have at it, grieving Jackson fans.
SF News Michael Jackson, Dead at 50 According to TMZ, "Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse
