SF News BASE Jumpers Drown After Leaping From Big Sur Bridge Tragic news out of Big Sur today as two BASE jumpers have gone missing after leaping off the iconic Bixby Creek Bridge. Both are presumed dead. In a sad twist of fate, it
SF News Ten Years Of Bay Area Traffic Fatalities Mapped It's a powerful data set — ten years of fatal traffic collisions, mapped and collated, ready to be pored over. Compiled together in an interactive map, the data highlights pockets of San Francisco that
SF News Counterfeit Xanax Has Now Killed At Least Three People In SF Pills imprinted with the name Xanax that are being sold on the streets of SF have now been blamed for the deaths of three people, and there may be more to come. We
SF News Valley Fire May Have Claimed Up To Five Lives; Second And Third Victims Confirmed We were told on Monday and Tuesday that there was one confirmed death from the swift-moving Valley Fire last week, and that was 72-year-old Barbara McWilliams. Yesterday we learned that a missing 69-year-old
SF News More About The Only Fatality In The Valley Fire As It Grows To 67,000 Acres The devastating Valley Fire, which touches three counties Lake, Napa, and Sonoma grew to 67,000 acress from 61,000 since yesterday, and Cal Fire now says it is 15 percent contained. As
SF News Ten Days Later, Man Found Dead In Parklet Outside The Mill Identified Man Found Dead In Parklet Outside The Mill: http://t.co/wKs5n31tP8 by @LightExposures pic.twitter.com/q3NAjhzv9S— Hoodline (@HoodlineSF) August 31, 2015 Ten days after a "nicely dressed gentlemen" was found dead
SF News Blind Tenderloin SRO Resident Falls To His Death In Empty Elevator Shaft When a Tenderloin SRO elevator door opened on an empty shaft, a blind hotel resident fell to his death, another resident tells SFist. The San Francisco Fire Department confirmed that on August 20th
SF News Man Crushed to Death by WWII Tank at Jelly Belly Family Retreat by Jack Morse A bizarre tragedy involving the makers of everyone's favorite buttered-popcorn simulacrum candy occurred this past Saturday. During a retreat at the private Fairfield estate of Jelly Belly chairman Herman Rowland,
SF News Remembering Anastasia, The Homeless Trans Woman Who Died In The Castro (Who May Not Have Been Trans) No one knew much about the mentally ill, homeless person who called herself Anastasia when she died on a bench outside Peet's Coffee in the Castro on New Year's Eve. Various people in
SF News Young Yosemite Campers Killed By Falling Tree Limb Two young campers were killed in Yosemite National Park this morning when a oak tree's limb fell onto their tent as they slept. According to Yosemite National Park spokesman Scott Gediman, the two
SF News Body Of Woman Found At Bush And Franklin Friday Was 'Not Fully Intact' The body of a woman found Friday morning at a construction site at Bush and Franklin was "not fully intact," officials say — but beyond that, details remain sketchy. At 7:21 a.m.
SF News Now Facebook Lets You Choose An Account Executor For When You Inevitably Die Facebook will outlive us all, or so the company suggests with a new policy that allows users to select a "legacy contact" to manage their accounts when they die. "Until now, when someone
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Community Mourns Death Of Cookie Dough A beloved drag queen has died, and all too soon. Cookie Dough, a.k.a. Eddie Bell, succumbed to complications from meningitis at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco Thursday night. She was 52.
SF News [Update] Man Killed In Mission Fire Identified Though there's been no official word on the identity of the one fatality in Wednesday night's fire at 22nd and Mission, reporters have honed in on a couple who is already mourning their
SF News Family Of Woman Found Dead In SF General Stairwell To Receive $3 Million Settlement From City The family of Lynne Spalding, the woman who tragically died while under the care of SF General and remained missing for 17 days due to the flubs of both the hospital and the
SF News Dead Person Found In UC Berkeley Frat House Sunday Greek life over at UC Berkeley has taken an especially dark turn this fall as a dead 20-year-old man was discovered in a fraternity house just off campus on Sunday, the day after
SF News The Bodies Keep Piling Up At San Francisco's Morgue When someone dies, it's usually nice to know why. In the City and County of San Francisco, getting an official cause of death could take years. Years! The San Francisco Examiner has a
SF News Witness In Death Of Bryan 'Feather Lynn' Higgins Describes Early Morning Confrontation Some more details have come to light via eyewitness testimony in the attack on, and ultimate death, of 31-year-old Bryan "Feather Lynn" Higgins near Church and Duboce Streets on August 10. And the
SF News Woman Dies In Bus Accident At Burning Man A woman who has not yet been identified died early Thursday morning when she fell under the wheels of a bus at Burning Man. The details of the accident have not yet been
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams Dead At Age 63, Possibly By Suicide Robin Williams, the Oscar-winning actor and stand-up comedian who's lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area, was found dead in his Tiburon, California home on Monday, as the Marin Sheriff's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Chef Community Mourns Loss Of Chris L'Hommedieu The local chef community lost one of its own at far too young an age this week. Chris L'Hommedieu, a chef's chef and often-cited mentor, died at the age of 44 of a
SF News Body Found South Of Stinson Beach A severely decomposed body, to the point where authorities cannot confirm the sex of it, was found by a couple of tourists on Sunday, near Highway 1 a mile south of Stinson Beach.
SF News Report: You're More Likely Die Early In San Francisco Than In Most Other Bay Area Counties Want to live longer? Then move out of San Francisco, and across the bridge to Marin. That's what the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute would have
SF News Harold Camping, Prophet Who Falsely Predicted 2011 Rapture, Has Died With a heavy heart we report to you that Harold Camping, failed Oakland-based doomsday soothsayer, has died. The Family Radio minister's prediction of a catastrophic May 21, 2011 rapture never happened — famously so,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Judy Rodgers, Chef Of Zuni Café Fame, Died Judy Rodgers, the woman noted for being the chef-partner of the Zuni Café since 1987 as well as the author of the Zuni Café Cookbook, died at the age of 57 Monday. And
