SF News Man Jumps Off Golden Gate Bridge, Regrets It Shortly After A crew from Santa Cruz was out sailing on the bay Monday afternoon, when 23-year-old Hilary Walecka says she saw someone jump from the Golden Golden Bridge and plunge 220 feet to the
Arts & Entertainment It Gets Indie: Teens Put On Benefit Concert For Gay Youths What were you doing at 14? Or 16? Probably not helping organize the second annual It Gets Indie benefit concert at Great American Music Hall. That's just what Noah Hornik, 14, and his
SF News Controversial Bridge Celebrates 75 Years Today the Golden Gate Bridge celebrates 75 years as beacon of engineering precision, aesthetics, and yes, suicide. On average, one person jumps to their death from the bridge every two weeks, "more than
SF News Fatal Shooting Outside Mission Dolores [Updated] The Bay Area Reporter notes, "We're hearing reports that there has been a shooting at the Mission Dolores chapel this morning." We'll update as soon as we know more. Update: According to Mission
SF News Afternoon Murder-Suicide Rattles Petaluma After Kim Conover, 31, paid a visit to her divorce attorney on Sunday afternoon, her estranged husband, Kevin Covover, 35, shot and killed her outside said lawyer's office, later turning the gun on
SF News SFPD Releases 'It Gets Better' Film "I'm sure there's a Shit Someone Says video out there you haven't seen yet, but why not skip it and watch this surprisingly moving It Gets Better video from the SFPD," notes SF
SF News Facebook, Your Cell Phone Would Like You Not To Kill Yourself A new mobile phone app and a new service/button on Facebook are trying to help the suicide prevention cause. The smartphone app, specifically geared toward soldiers and military vets, is called Guard
Arts & Entertainment Stay Alive And Make Good Bread Pudding This Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving from the fine folks at SFist. If you don't know what to make this year, you still have time to prepare this delightful savory bread pudding care of Mary Risley, fledgling
SF News Suicide at Colma Station Temporarily Shut Down BART Last Night Around 11:20 p.m. last night a man jumped down from a stairwell onto the BART platform at Colma station and in front of an oncoming train in an apparent suicide, according
SF News Police Say They Found Kenneth Harding's Gun San Francisco Police claim they've recovered the gun involved in the shooting death of Kenneth Harding. No weapon was found at the scene initially, leading many to believe fare officers were at fault
SF News Police Now Claim Kenneth Harding Shot, Killed Himself What authorities initially claimed as a justifiable self-defense killing, SFPD now says that Kenneth Harding died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "Police had originally said Harding had turned and fired at the officers,
SF News Thrasher Magazine Co-Founder ID'd as Man Who Committed Suicide at SFPD Station The man who shot and killed himself outside the SFPD Mission Station on Valencia Street was identified today as Eric Swenson, a 64-year-old San Francisco resident who was also the co-founder of popular
SF News Man Shoots, Kills Self Outside SFPD Station An unidentified man committed suicide outside the SFPD MIssion station Monday morning. "The incident was reported at about 9 a.m. outside the doors of the police station at 630 Valencia," reports SF
SF News Jumper Talked Down from Bay Bridge An unidentified man, who is described as being in his 40s, reportedly stopped his car in the middle of traffic on the westbound side of the Bay Bridge this afternoon at about 2:
SF News Caltrain Service Halted After Burlingame Suicide A man died in an apparent suicide on the train tracks in Burlingame this afternoon. SFGate reports: "The northbound train hit the man on the right-of-way at Peninsula Avenue shortly before 12:20
SF News Video: Giants and the 'It Gets Better' Project Barry Zito, Sergio Romo, and Matt Cain are just a few of the San Francisco Giants who took part in the "It Gets Better" campaign, a LGBT anti-suicide project spearheaded by Dan Savage.
SF News Memorial to Be Held on Monday for Missing Danville Teen, Suicide Confirmed California Highway Patrol confirmed on Wednesday that there was evidence that 15-year-old missing Danville teen, Allison Bayliss, committed suicide. Allison had been reported missing on Monday when her family found her bike parked
SF News Suicide Jumper at 3rd & Market [Updated] We're getting word that a jumper (pictured here) atop a building at Third and Market streets has caused all sorts of havoc this morning. Traffic along the 600 block of Market is closed
SF News Fairfield Murder-Suicide Leaves Three Dead One women and two men are dead after a murder-suicide in Farfield on Saturday. BCN (via KTVU) reports: "The relationships and motivation for the shooting on the 5200 block of Venus Drive are
SF News CHP Confirms That Sunday's Jumper Was Attempting Suicide, Was In Town From So-Cal It's been confirmed that the 16-year-old girl who survived a fall off the Golden Gate Bridge this morning was attempting to commit suicide. California Highway Patrol spokesman Patrick Roth told Contra Costa Times
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Remembering Kurt Cobain Kurt Cobain committed suicide inside his Lake Washington home 17 years ago today. MTV's Kurt Loder broke the news to a stunned Gen X audience, and the rest was history. In honor of
SF News Man Takes Taxi to Freeway Overpass In Livermore, Jumps Off This is a gruesome and sad tale: A man in his 30s or 40s took a taxi at 9:30 Saturday morning to a freeway overpass along I-580 at Airway Boulevard in Livermore,
SF News 19-Year-Old Killed On Caltrain Tracks Described as "an intentional act" by Caltrain authorities, an unidentified 19-year-old Palo Alto man was struck and killed this morning by a train in Palo Alto. Happening just after midnight, "the man was
misc Twitter User Threatens Jumping Off Third Bridge The Examiner posted a story about Twitter user Nick Starr, who publicly threatened on Twitter to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge in 2008, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay in 2007,
SF News 15-Year-Old Hayward Twins Had Possible Suicide Pact, One Dead The body of a 15-year-old boy believed to be the twin of another 15-year-old apprehended by police was found in a ravine yesterday in an unincorporated area near Hayward. As the Chron's reporting,
