An act of chivalry may have led to a heated argument outside the gates of AT&T Park and ultimately to the killing of an 18-year-old baseball fan on Friday night.

An 18-year-old San Carlos man remained jailed on $1 million bail Sunday following the death of another youth with whom he got into a fist-fight near AT&T Park.

A man slit his wrists before stepping out onto the ledge of a swanky condominium near the Union Square shopping district, drawing a crowd of more than 100 witnesses before plunging four stories to his death Thursday afternoon.

An elderly hotel clerk nearly stomped to death in March has been discharged from the hospital as his two suspected attackers pleaded not guilty to the bloody assault Wednesday.

San Mateo County’s public hospital is teetering on the financial edge — a situation that’s likely to grow more precarious with state budget cuts this year.

The City’s homicide count continued to climb over the weekend as two men were gunned down late Saturday night in apparently unrelated shootings.

A 21-year-old man was found dead inside a car in the Mission district Wednesday night, another victim of deadly gun violence in San Francisco.

In regard to Ken Garcia’s column (The Examiner, April 29) about taxpayers saying no to more expenditures, I couldn’t agree more. It seems like San Francisco is a city that expects its residents to have endless cash reserves, when The City itself does not. All this while The City pays employees, such as the head of Muni, ridiculous sums of money, while that agency underperforms year after year.

San Francisco General Hospital will pay out millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit involving a man who now requires 24-hour medical care after seeking treatment for a fever and cough.

The City is slated to dole out a record $5.1 million as a result of a medical malpractice lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court regarding care provided by San Francisco General Hospital.