Arts & Entertainment Tony Sly, No Use For A Name Frontman, Dead At Age 41 Tony Sly, singer and principal songwriter for noted San Jose, California hardcore punk outfit No Use for a Name has passed away at age 41. His cause of death has not yet been
SF News Man Killed In Motorcycle Accident Identified Constantine Boyko, a 25-year-old San Francisco resident, was killed on Saturday after his motorcycle collided into a van on Cesar Chavez Street between Evans Avenue and Pennsylvania. "According to investigators, Boyko was traveling
SF News Lawrence Livermore Lab Successfully Shoots Mega-Laser That Could Kill Us All Big news in the physics community arrives this week: Lawrence Livermore National Lab just successfully shot a 500 terawatt fusion laser at a single tiny target this week, which was the result of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Home-Cooking Revolutionary Marion Cunningham Dies Marion Cunningham, a woman who championed home cooking in America, succumbed to complications from Alzheimer's Disease this morning at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek. She was 90. Some of her most
SF News Mother and Son Killed In Berkeley Car Crash A mother and her six-year-old son were both killed in what appears to have been a DUI accident which occurred May 18 near California Street and Allston Way near downtown Berkeley. Milanca Alicia
SF News Young Man Shot, Killed In Visitacion Valley Responding to ShotSpotter over on the 1700 block of Sunnydale Avenue just after midnight, authorities found a 23-year-old man was shot. The unidentified victim, suffering from life-threatening injuries, was whisked to San Francisco
SF News Veterans' Hospital Lab Worker Dies Of Meningitis A 25-year-old researcher at S.F.'s VA hospital died Saturday morning very shortly after showing the first symptoms of a serious meningitis infection, which he likely contracted from working with the bacteria
SF News Man Killed By Muni Train Identified According to reports, the man who was killed by an outbound M Muni train on Monday afternoon has been identified as 62-year-old wheelchair-abound Daniel Dillen. The victim managed to somehow get himself down
SF News Mom Dies After Daughter Drives Car Onto Train Tracks During a harrowing incident in San Leandro on Tuesday night, a woman driving with her mother became stuck on the train tracks after mistakenly assuming the tracks were a street. With an oncoming
Arts & Entertainment Noted Poet Adrienne Rich Has Died One of the foremost poets and thinkers of the 20th century, Adrienne Rich, has died, SF Chronicle book editor John McMurtrie reports via Twitter. In addition to winning loads of awards for her
SF News Please Help Find Horrible, Horrible Dog Abusers Two terrier mixes found with missing limbs, caked in their own urine and feces, and eventually put to sleep due to their injuries were discovered Friday at an abandoned San Bruno condo complex.
SF News Falling Tree Causes Wrecks, Man's Death On Highway 13 A multi-car crash on Highway 13 Thursday morning resulted in several car wrecks and the death of an 18-year-old Washington man. The tree crashed down onto southbound traffic near Park Boulevard in Oakland
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Literal Sign Of The Times "Literal Sign of the Times" by Ariel Dovas.
SF News Bay Area Singing Twins Die Within Hours Of One Another The Miller Twins, two performing young girls who grew up in the Bay Area performing on local TV show The Hoffman Hayride and others, just died in their home in South Lake Tahoe
SF News Dead Woman Found Floating In SF Bay The fuzz was called to Pier 45 today after two tourists spotted a dead woman floating in the San Francisco Bay at around 11:20 a.m. The Chronicle reports, "Police, firefighters and
SF News East Bay Motorcyclist Plunges Off Overpass Wall, Dies A motorcyclist, 22, driving along I-80 at around 3 a.m. crashed into an overpass wall, fell over "dozens of feet," and died. "The motorcyclist was transitioning from northbound Interstate 880 to westbound
SF News East Bay BART Train Kills Man A little before 7 p.m. on Monday, a man died after walking on the BART tracks at the MacArthur station. A Richmond-bound train plowed into the unidentified man, killing him instantly. According
SF News Police Need Help Finding Men Who Stomped Mini-Yorkie To Death We first heard about a woman who allegedly tossed her boyfriend's jack russell terrier out of a third-story window in the Mission during an argument. Now, sadly, we must to tell you about
Arts & Entertainment Girls Perform Whitney Houston Cover In honor of Whitney Houston, San Francisco-based band Girls performed their rendition of "I Will Always Love You," Houston's famous cover originally written and performed by Dolly Parton. The duo performed it at
Arts & Entertainment Indie Film Veteran Bingham Ray Dies At Sundance Sigh. San Francisco Film Society just announced that beloved Executive Director Bingham Ray died today, January 23, while attending the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. In addition to manning the
SF News Suicide, Liver Disease Now More Popular Than Homicide In a new set of data just out from the CDC, culled from 2010, homicide is no longer one of the top 15 causes of death for Americans. This is the first time
SF News Berkeley City Clerk Found Dead Inside Her Home [Updated] Deanna Despain, Berkeley's city clerk, was found dead inside her Oakland home (at on the 4100 block of Lyman Road) on Saturday morning. According to Berkeleyside, who broke the story, "The coroner’s
SF News Homeless Deaths Memorialized Tonight At Civic Center The Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco Network Ministries, and the general public will gather tonight to honor those who died while homeless. The memorial will happen at 5:30 p.m. at Civic
Arts & Entertainment Director Ken Russell Dies Before he sold his soul to Beelzebub by appearing in the UK's Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, noted director Ken Russell had made some of the most visually jarring yet controversial films
SF News Steve Jobs' Keen Final Words Sunday's New York Times features the eulogy Steve Jobs' sister, writer Mona Simpson, delivered at his funeral. Describing her brother's last hours, she reveals his simple yet touching final words: Steve's final words,
