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An independent investigation into the drowning death of a suicidal man while Alameda police officers and firefighters stood by has found that the death was caused by a breakdown in communications and a lack of training.
A man accused of a double killing near San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf has staged a hunger strike for the last month, and it's sparked a battle of ethics in the city.
A shooting Thursday evening at a Fairfield home appears to be a murder-suicide when a man fatally shot his wife and then killed himself while their children were at home, police said.
At least 24 people have jumped to their deaths from the iconic span so far this year, according to statistics compiled by the Bay Citizen. Officials recorded 25 suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge for all of 2010.
Vacaville police thwarted a suicide attempt by convincing a woman who was threatening to kill herself by jumping off an Interstate Highway 80 overpass Thursday night to come down.
A man who shot and killed himself during a traffic stop in Concord on Thursday has been identified as 59-year-old San Ramon resident David Leon, a Contra Costa County coroner's deputy said Friday.
A man who was thought to have died from an officer-involved shooting in San Francisco last weekend appears instead to have been killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The City of Alameda is hiring a former Cal FIRE director to conduct an independent review of the Memorial Day drowning of a suicidal man.
The city of Alameda has chosen a former state fire marshal to conduct an independent review of the drowning of a suicidal man at Crown Beach on Memorial Day.
An internal memo appears to contradict claims by Alameda fire officials in the wake of a man's suicide in San Francisco Bay while firefighters and police watched from the shore.
Autopsy results were completed Thursday for the 52-year-old Alameda man who killed himself in San Francisco Bay on Monday. However, it could take four to six weeks for the toxicology report.
Alameda officials said Tuesday they'll change the island city's water rescue policy after an apparently suicidal man died in 54-degree water.
Emergency responders were unable to rescue a 53-year-old man who lost consciouness in San Francisco Bay off the Alameda shore Monday in what police are calling an apparent suicide.
The parents of a Danville girl believed to have jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge last week thanked the community for its support on Friday and announced a public celebration of the girl's life.
Some Palo Alto parents want the school district to take immediate action to address academic stress among high school students. The group is called "We Can Do Better Palo Alto," and was formed after four Gunn High School students committed suicide in 2009.
The San Francisco Giants are following in the footsteps of President Barack Obama, pop star Janet Jackson and more than 10,000 others who have made videos for an anti-suicide campaign geared toward gay youth.
A fatal crash in west Marin County that blocked state Highway 1 for nearly four hours Saturday was determined to have been a suicide, a California Highway Patrol officer said.
Noting that an average of 18 veterans a day commit suicide, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically overhaul its mental health care system.
Police are calling Saturday afternoon's shooting in Fairfield a murder-suicide after the gunman killed a man and woman and injured a second man before shooting himself.
Rescue crews searching the hills of Annadel State Park in Santa Rosa Saturday morning found the remains of a missing Sonoma State University student.
Everyone knows what the Golden Gate Bridge looks like. The Marin Symphony has asked composer Rob Kapilow to figure out what the iconic tourist attract sounds like.
Residents of a Redwood City apartment building were evacuated Sunday night because of a chemical release related to an apparent suicide, police said.
A San Leandro woman has been arrested for allegedly murdering her 8-year-old daughter in what appears to have been a botched murder-suicide, according to police.
An eleventh-grade student from Windsor High School survived a plunge off San Francisco's famed Golden Gate Bridge on Thursday, school officials told CBS 5.
An armed standoff lasting more than nine hours ended Tuesday morning when officers entered a home in North Berkeley to find the suspect shot dead.
