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Dark cloud hangs over S.F. Zoo following tiger escape
- Dropping attendance rates, overflowing maintenance costs and low employee morale were part of a bleak forecast described Thursday by San Francisco Zoo officials, who are dealing with heightening budget problems as they search for a new executive director.
Mauling victim was on drugs and alcohol
- A 17-year-old killed in the San Francisco Zoo tiger mauling on Christmas Day tested positive for marijuana and alcohol, according to a toxicology report released Monday.
Tiger-mauling survivors poised to sue San Francisco
- The two brothers who were attacked by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo — which also fatally mauled a friend — plan to file a lawsuit against The City, according to their attorney.
Ex-officer offered deal in alleged scam case
- Prosecutors have offered a plea deal to a former San Francisco police officer and two accomplices accused of bilking a Colma Home Depot out of $62,718 over six months.
Tiger attack victims file claim against San Francisco
- Two brothers who survived a Christmas Day tiger mauling at the San Francisco Zoo are now going on the offensive by filing a claim against The City that claims negligence, defamation and property deprivation, among other grievances, according to documents.
Zoo chided for tiger mauling response
- Disbelief from zoo staff members, limited access to radios and guns, a lean zoo crew and a low moat wall were all factors to blame in the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day, according to the results of an investigation by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Safety work almost complete on S.F. Zoo tiger grotto
- Work is mostly done on safety enhancements to the San Francisco Zoo's big cat exhibit, which has been closed since the Christmas Day escape of a tiger that killed a boy and mauled his two friends before police shot it
- Work is mostly done on safety enhancements to the San Francisco Zoo's big cat exhibit, which has been closed since the Christmas Day escape of a tiger that killed a boy and mauled his two friends before police shot it
Animal advocates call for S.F. Zoo overhaul
- Animal welfare proponents will be joined at City Hall this morning by a handful of former zoo curators calling for an overhaul of the San Francisco Zoo.
Tiger mauling: Whose story do you believe?
- Police believe that a fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo was in part prompted by the victims provoking the animal into escaping its enclosure and mauling them.
Zoo: Blood inside tiger fence
- Blood found inside the fenced-in area overlooking the tiger moat is one piece of evidence investigators are examining in the San Francisco Zoo tiger mauling that killed one San Jose teenager and injured two of his friends on Christmas Day, a zoo spokesperson said Thursday. Take our poll: Whose story do you believe?
- Blood found inside the fenced-in area overlooking the tiger moat is one piece of evidence investigators are examining in the San Francisco Zoo tiger mauling that killed one San Jose teenager and injured two of his friends on Christmas Day, a zoo spokesperson said Thursday. Take our poll: Whose story do you believe?
Evidence in mauling victims' car points to alcohol, drug use
- The revived criminal investigation into the fatal Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo is focusing on the car and cell phones belonging to the San Jose brothers injured in the mauling.
- The revived criminal investigation into the fatal Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo is focusing on the car and cell phones belonging to the San Jose brothers injured in the mauling.
Zoo attorneys to appeal if judge rules against SFPD warrant
- A Santa Clara County judge today promised to decide by Friday the fate of the car and cell phones belonging to Amritpal and Kulbir Dhaliwal, the brothers wounded in the Christmas Day tiger mauling at San Francisco Zoo that killed their friend Carlos Sousa Jr.
Judge delays written order on tiger attack car, cell phone search
- A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge said this morning that he would not issue an order regarding the car and cell phones in the San Francisco zoo tiger mauling case until Friday.
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