SF News Experienced Rock Climber Falls To His Death In Yosemite Free Climb After Proposing To Girlfriend A very sad story came out of Yosemite over the weekend when veteran rock climber Brad Parker of Sebastopol fell to his death while attempting to climb Matthes Crest Traverse. Most tragically, just
SF News Photo Du Jour: A Vigil For Feather Lynn Here's a photo from this afternoon's vigil in Duboce Park for Feather Lynn, a.k.a. Bryan Higgins, whose family removed him from life support today. At least 100 people gathered and held
SF News Slain Man Found Near Duboce Park, Now ID'd, To Be Removed From Life Support Today; Suspect Sought In Homicide The unidentified man found early Sunday, who was unconscious and badly beaten near the corner of Church and Duboce Streets, was publicly identified late yesterday as 31-year-old Bryan Higgins, a.k.a. Feather
SF News Cremated Remains Of Nine Jonestown Victims Discovered In Delaware More than 30 years after the tragic mass suicide that took the lives of 911 Bay Area residents at Jonestown, in Guyana, the cremated remains of nine of the dead turned up in
SF News Familiar Neighborhood Homeless Man Mourned In Castro A familiar face on the streets of the Castro over the years has died. His name was Barry LeBlanc, and you may know him as the gray-bearded guy who would often pull up
SF News Apparent Crew Member Suicide Diverts Hawaii-Bound Cruise From S.F. A cruise ship bound for the Big Island of Hawaii that left San Francisco Bay on Saturday has been diverted off its course as it searches for a missing crew member who went
SF News More Details About Nevada School Shooting: Semiautomatic Weapon Involved, Teacher Praised for Heroism Very little is yet known about the 12-year-old student responsible for yesterday's tragic shooting at Sparks Middle School, just outside Reno, but today we learn that he brought a semiautomic weapon to school
SF News Asiana Crash Victim Hit By Firetruck After Being Pulled From Plane By Rescue Worker Well, this is even sadder than the originally assumed sequence of events: It turns out that the 16-year-old girl who was run over by the firetruck responding to the crash of Asiana Flight
SF News Woman Sentenced In Deadly Eight-Car Pileup On 101 A year ago February there was a tragic accident that led to an eight-car pile-up on Highway 101 in Monterey County, all caused by one woman whose SUV jumped the median and plowed
SF News Two Bay Area Men Drowned in High Surf in Kauai Two more Bay Area residents have lost their lives while in Hawaii. Best friends Adam Griffiths, 46, and Brian Baker, 47, were hiking with Griffiths' fiancée Jennifer Kwong on the rocky north shore
SF News Teacher Tragically Killed While Photographing Train A Sacramento teacher was tragically struck and killed by a Union Pacific train on Saturday afternoon. Kathy Carlisle, 52, a wife and mother of three, was a popular teacher at St. Francis High
SF News Black Friday Crash in Palo Alto Claims Lives of Two Sisters A collision on Highway 101 in the early morning hours Friday between an SUV and a parked CHP vehicle resulted in a family of six sustaining injuries, and the deaths of two daughters.
Arts & Entertainment In Response to Colorado Tragedy, Local Paper Interviews 'Dark Knight' Fans In a move we'd associate more with local TV news than with a print publication, the San Jose Mercury-News sent a couple of cub reporters to interview people standing in line this morning
SF News Phil Bronstein Notices How Awful SFGate Commenters Are, Scolds Them We ourselves tend to avoid doing too much scrolling on SFGate for fear that our eyes will fall upon the shrill, vitriolic, frequently ALL-CAPPED stupidity that is their commenter pool. Today, Phil Bronstein
SF News Big Rig Accident on Octavia Kills at Least One, Snarls Morning Traffic A major accident at 6:30 a.m. this morning at the intersection of Octavia and Oak Streets has closed the area to both vehicle and Muni traffic, causing headaches for Haight/Nopa/
SF News Controversial Chihuahua Meets His Untimely End Tragic news: Gizmo, the chihuahua at the center of controversy surrounding a shooting at Fred's New Lite Supermarket at Haight and Masonic has been run over by a motor vehicle at the same
