Bay Area Sports Stanford Settles Wrongful Death Suit Brought By Family of Soccer Star Stanford University has reportedly reached a settlement to bring an end to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of soccer star Katie Meyer, who took her own life in March 2022.
SF News Two Years In, Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Prevention Nets Have Almost Completely Eliminated Bridge Suicides In their second year since completion, the Golden Gate Bridge suicide prevention barriers allowed only four suicides in the first half of 2025. In the second half of 2025, the bridge saw zero suicides.
SF Politics South Lake Tahoe Mayor Admits to Embezzling Money From Church, Recent Suicide Attempt A shocking political story out of South Lake Tahoe, as Mayor Tamara Wallace admits to stealing money from the local Presbyterian Church, and having attempted to end her own life because of it last month.
Business & Tech Two Parents Sue OpenAI, Saying ChaptGPT Assisted Their 16-Year-Old Son’s Suicide The first-ever lawsuit against OpenAI for a wrongful death comes from two parents whose son used ChatGPT for advice on the noose with which he hanged himself, and the chatbot allegedly encouraged him to keep his suicidal thought private.
SF News Oakland Residents Fear Suspicious Death May Have Been a Lynching, Calling for Transparency On June 30, Oakland citizens were alerted via the Citizen app that someone was hanging from a tree near Bridgeview Trail. Police quickly deemed it a suicide, but residents are demanding more transparency. No press releases have been issued, and only one news outlet has reported on the case so far.
SF News Four Arrested in Sextortion Scheme Linked to San Jose Teen’s 2022 Suicide Two years after 17-year-old Ryan Last of San Jose took his own life, authorities have arrested four men in Côte d’Ivoire for their alleged roles in an international sextortion scheme that targeted thousands, including minors.
SF News Medical Examiner's Office Says Autopsy Confirms That OpenAI Whistleblower Died By Suicide SF’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has submitted their autopsy report, and it says the November 26 death of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji was from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, though this may not satisfy his family who have been convinced otherwise.
SF News Family of OpenAI Whistleblower Sues SFPD, Demands Access to Investigation Records While the SFPD ruled that the November death of SF engineer and OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji was a suicide, his family has their doubts. And now they’re suing the SFPD for the release of the case’s investigative records.
SF News Santa Clara High Student Dies by Suicide After Classmates Bullied Him for Being Homeless 14-year-old Jose Zamora’s short tenure at Santa Clara High School came to a tragic end last week, as the freshman took his own life after weeks of taunting for living at a homeless shelter and being raised by a single father.
SF News Black Man Found Hanged Near Bernal Heights Park, Case Currently Ruled a Suicide There are more questions than answers about the hanging death of 34-year-old Randy Dudley, whose body was discovered hanging from a tree at a Bernal Height park Tuesday morning, but authorities have made a preliminary ruling that it was a suicide.
SF News At Long Last (And Way Over Budget), Suicide Prevention Nets Finally Installed on Golden Gate Bridge They may be four years late and $148 million over budget, but the Golden Gate Bridge’s suicide prevention barriers are now fully in place on both sides of the bridge’s entire 1.7-mile span.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Prevention Nets Already Reducing Deaths, Despite Not Being Complete The number of deaths by suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge has decreased remarkably as work on the suicide prevention nets continues, and the barriers are expected to be fully installed by the end of the year.
SF News Alameda County DA’s New Accountability Unit Files Criminal Charges Against Three Law Enforcement Officers The separate charges range from falsifying records in relation with a suicide at Santa Rita Jail to oral copulation with a minor.
SF News Listen: JV’s WILD 94.9 DJ Colleagues Speak On Air as They Learn of His Passing, Wife Breaks Silence Some riveting and heartbreaking radio happened on WILD 94.9FM Thursday, as the crew of the JV Show broke the news of Jeffrey "JV" Vandergrift’s confirmed death as they were on the air — and his wife has spoken out in a gut-wrenching social media post.
SF News A Person Jumped Onto Tracks at SF's Balboa Park Station Friday BART's Balboa Park Station in San Francisco temporarily closed on Friday after a man reportedly jumped underneath a train — which brought multiple police officers and firefighters to the scene.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Net Finally Nearing Completion Two or three people are still taking their lives on the bridge each month, but the completion date for a long-sought suicide detrerrent net is finally on the horizon.
SF News After Star Soccer Player’s Suicide, Stanford Acknowledges It Has a Suicide Problem With four suicides in 13 months, and new details about goalie Katie Meyer’s circumstances that don’t make the school look good, Stanford promises to beef up mental health resources for students.
SF News Wife of Deceased Recology Exec Sues the Company, Blaming Them for His Suicide One of the darkest episodes of the Recology public corruption scandal will be aired in federal court, as a grieving spouse claims the company tried to pin the bribery on her husband, causing his suicidal breakdown.
SF News Person Struck By Train Closes Powell Station, Causes BART Snarl A "major medical emergency" was reported at the Powell Street BART Station Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m., with the whole station shut down and emergency personnel on the scene.
SF News One Dead and Multiple Sickened After 'Chemical Suicide' At Fairmont San Jose The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose was the center of all manner of chaos yesterday morning: A woman took her own life in a “chemical suicide” with an unknown substance, sickening at least nine others in the process.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' Blamed For Spike In Teen Suicides In 2017 A new study suggests that there was a statistically anomalous spike in suicides among teen boys in the month after the show's premiere, April 2017.
SF News Family Of Man Who Ran Into Flames At Burning Man Confused, Says He Was 'A Happy Guy' The parents of the man who willfully ran into the flames of the towering effigy at Burning Man Saturday night say they are in shock and can not understand why he would have
SF News Video: BART Riders Rush To Stop Oncoming Train After Jumper Lands On Tracks A man who was possibly in crisis jumped onto the tracks at the Civic Center BART station Monday afternoon was saved after multiple riders on the station platform waved to get the attention
SF News SF Main Library Closes After Person Jumps From Balcony The San Francisco Main Library at Civic Center was evacuated and temporarily closed Thursday afternoon after a person jumped from one of the balconies into the lobby atrium, possibly in a suicide attempt.
Arts & Entertainment Two Bay Area Families Say Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' Triggered Their Teens' Suicides The parents of two 15-year-old girls, one in Livermore and one in San Mateo, say that their children each took their own lives just days after watching the Netflix series 13
