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Gang rape survivors: It's not your fault

Those flashbacks have been coming more frequently since Sylvers read about the gang rape last month of a 16-year-old Richmond girl. Sylvers was 15 when she was violated 20 years ago. Sylvers and two other women gang-raped in the Bay Area as teenagers ...

From KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Illinois,  Terry O'Neill

5 now in custody in Richmond High gang rape

The boys, ages 15, 16 and 17, were among five suspects that had been arrested in connection with the crime as of Wednesday. Police were continuing their investigation and expect to make more arrests. Police said they now believe that as many as 10 ...

From HENRY K. LEE,KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Manuel Ortega,  Juvenile (musician)

Korbel family's heated battle settled in secret

Korbel owner Gary Heck and his daughter, Richie Ann Samii, who was seeking tens of millions of dollars from him, agreed to drop all claims against each other "throughout the universe" and "from the beginning of time," according to Sonoma County ...

From KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  28 Oct 2009

New California gold rush reaches fever pitch

There's a 160-year-old reason California is called the Golden State, and people like Gilray are making that reason fresh again. A new gold rush is in full gallop all over California. Driven by the record-high gold prices - $1,056 an ounce on Friday, ...

From KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bureau of Land Management

Soggy mess? Check. Drought over? Not so fast

In other words: No, this doesn't mean the drought is over. "The storm was a wretched thing to drive through and walk through, but it didn't do much for the state's water supply," Elissa Lynn, senior meteorologist for state Department of Water Resources, ...

From KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: National Weather Service

High winds, heavy rain headed our way

For the rest of you, who get to work in cars, remember that rain makes roads wet - and with a long, dry summer for motor oil to have built up, that means very, very slick. The first significant storm of the season is expected to wallop Northern ...

From KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: National Weather Service

Transbay Terminal reopens after bomb scare

Quick links to the best of SFGate | Still can't find it? see Site Index (09-28) 12:22 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's Transbay Terminal reopened shortly after noon after a suspicious package found aboard a Muni bus was found not to be a bomb, ...

From KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Milla Jovovich

Giants' Villalona enmeshed in hometown slay case

But today there are no free bats, none of the happy shouts that greeted Villalona as he tooled down the rutted streets of this impoverished coastal city in his Nissan Armada sport utility vehicle. That's because the 19-year-old slugger - the most ...

From KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Angel Villalona,  San Francisco Giants,  Scarface (musician),  In Style

Garridos' neighbor recalls niece slain in '98

Two weeks ago, Russo was talking to that stream of reporters about whether Garrido could have been the person who killed 15-year-old Lisa Norrell in 1998. As awful as it would have been, she said, she wishes it had been true. Or that any tip pointing ...

From KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Nancy Garrido,  Jaycee Dugard

Garrido searchers prepare to look for bones

Two dogs trained to detect human remains showed interest in a spot in the Garridos' yard Thursday on Walnut Avenue just outside Antioch, so investigators want to hone in on that area as efficiently as possible, Hayward police Lt. Chris Orrey said this ...

From KEVIN FAGAN, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Jaycee Dugard

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