SF News Castro Stabbing Deemed A Suicide A disturbing fatal stabbing Monday afternoon outside the post office on 18th Street in the Castro is now being treated by police as a suicide. As the Bay Area Reporter reports, the victim
SF News The Election of Donald Trump Has Caused A Spike In Crisis Hotline Use In SF Following the Democalypse of last week, some parts of the country i.e. every city are going through major anxiety crises and deep depressions while other parts of the country basically everywhere that
SF News Possibly Suicidal Man With Gun Shuts Down Civic Center Leading To Six-Hour Standoff White man with toy gun? 6 hr standoff. Gets help. Black men & children with toy guns (open carry state)? Executed. https://t.co/x6m4iyHFcy— Steve Locke (@steve_locke) September 25, 2016 A
SF News Family Of Suicidal Man Who Died In SF County Jail Now Suing Last July, 50-year-old Alberto Petrolino was arrested near the Golden Gate Bridge while possibly contemplating committing suicide, and several days later he was found dead in his cell in SF County Jail. He
SF News [Update] Person Stuck Under BART Train Shuts Embarcadero Station, Causes Systemwide Delays Embarcadero Station is shut down this morning as rescue workers attempt to free a person trapped under a train. According to BART, trains are skipping the station "due to a major medical emergency.
SF News Apple Death Was Apparent Suicide Of 'Young And Talented' Employee The body discovered yesterday morning at Apple's Cupertino headquarters was that of an employee, officials yesterday confirmed. Although the cause of death has yet to be confirmed pending the completion of a coroner's
SF News Oakland Teen Wanted In Three Homicides Kills Himself In Police Standoff An 18-year-old who was a suspect in three separate homicides one in Livermore, one in Sacramento, and one in Fresno was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound late Thursday night after a
SF News The <em>Atlantic</em> Is The Latest To Ask Why Palo Alto Teens Kill Themselves Four students in the Palo Alto school district have committed suicide since last October, none recently, and Hanna Rosin in the Atlantic is the latest to cover the events. As she points out,
SF News Robin Williams' Widow Gives Interview, Says She Forgives Him It's been over a year since Robin Williams took his own life in the Tiburon home they shared, and now his wife of three years, Susan Williams (née Schneider), has spoken out to
SF News SFPD Investigating Sexual Assault, Rooftop Suicide At San Francisco Marriott Marquis San Francisco's Marriott Marquis hotel is under scrutiny this week, after a man jumped to his death from its roof a few hours before a housekeeper was discovered sexually assaulted and nearly dead
SF News Right-To-Die Legislation May Pass In California Legislature After All A bill that would allow terminally ill patients in California to end their own lives with help from their doctors has just passed through the state Assembly on its way to a state
SF News Suicide Shutters Embarcadero Station For Several Hours Monday Afternoon Montgomery station right now after a @SFBART train hits, kills person at Embarcadero http://t.co/Um3ZmyceCq pic.twitter.com/p5UvlxVoXt— Todd Johnson (@SFBizTodd) August 24, 2015 A man reportedly jumped in front
SF News Sunday Transit Snarled By Balboa Park BART Fatality The Balboa Park BART station was closed for over four hours on Sunday after a person reportedly threw themselves in front of an oncoming train. It was 12:30 p.m. Sunday when,
SF News Infamous Golden Gate Bridge Jumper Allegedly Saved By Sea Lion Becomes Global Campaigner For Mental Health Kevin Hines, whose story of surviving a suicide attempt off the Golden Gate Bridge in 2000 has been well publicized over the last decade, is back in the news after retelling his story
SF News Man Suspected Of Killing Trans Woman In Bayview Found Dead The SFPD says that the man who was the prime suspect in last week's fatal stabbing on McKinnon Avenue was found hanging from a fence, dead from an apparent suicide one day after
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Rate Drops, Net To Catch Jumpers Expected In 2019 A year after the Golden Gate Bridge saw more suicides than it ever had before, that number has decreased, according to a group devoted to preventing people from taking their own lives on
Arts & Entertainment Robin Williams' Wife And Children Now Battling Over His Oscar, Other Personal Effects The late actor and comedian Robin Williams appears to have left something a bit vague in the wording of a trust that bequeathed a number of specific personal items, as well as his
SF News SFPD Releases Names Of Sergeants Involved In Mission Station 'Suicide By Cop' In a far swifter turn-around than in a previous case, the San Francisco Police Department has released the names of the officers involved in a fatal Mission District shooting of a man who
SF News Man Shot By Mission Police Left Suicide Note, Tells Cops 'You Did Nothing Wrong' In a totally bizarre twist to the officer-involved shooting that occurred in the parking lot of the SFPD's Mission Station on Sunday evening, the department has just released a suicide note apparently penned
SF News Coroner: Robin Williams Was Clean And Sober When He Died Over two months after actor and comedian Robin Williams died in his Tiburon home, the Marin County coroner has closed the investigation into his death. Chief among the findings: other than a small
SF News Police: Man Responsible For Early Morning Domestic Violence Shooting Had Just Gotten Out Of Jail [Updated] According to the San Francisco Police Department, just hours after a SoMa man was released from San Francisco County Jail, he returned to the scene of his arrest, shot his girlfriend, and killed
SF News Former SF Politico Wanted By FBI Appears To Have Posted Suicide Note Online [Update] Ryan Chamberlain, a public-relations executive and former Gavin Newsom associate whose apartment was raided by the FBI on Saturday on suspicion of possessing explosives, seems to have posted a suicide note on a
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Sees Record Number Of Suicides, As Barrier Plan Remains On Hold The Golden Gate Transportation District has confirmed that 2013 was a record year for suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge, with 46 reported deaths, including ten in the month of August. Over 2000
SF News Woman Jumps From Oakland Coliseum's Third Deck A lifelong Raiders fan — a lot usually noted for their impish ways — is being called a hero today after breaking the fall of a woman who plunged from the Oakland Coliseum's upper deck
SF News Former SFPD Deputy Chief Commits Suicide Outside Police Station Morris Tabak, a retired San Francisco Police Deputy Chief, killed himself outside a Sonoma County sheriff's substation Tuesday night. Following the news, ABC 7's Dan Noyes posted the following on his Facebook wall:
