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A San Jose man attacked by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo has been arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession and being under the influence of a controlled substance.
The father of a 3-month-old western lowland gorilla abandoned by its mother at the San Francisco Zoo has picked a handsome name for his son.
The parents of a 17-year-old boy killed by an escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo reached a settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit, their lawyer announced Friday.
A San Francisco Zoo employee who was mauled in 2006 by the same tiger that killed a 17-year-old boy a year later has settled a lawsuit against the city.
Officials want a survivor of a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo to reimburse the city more than $75,000 for his medical treatment and are asking that the money come out of any cash settlement the victim may receive.
The parents of a 17-year-old killed in a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo last Christmas sued the city and the zoo Tuesday.
A man who authorities say jumped into a black rhino enclosure at the San Francisco Zoo has been cited. Neither the man, whose name has not been released, nor any animals were hurt in Monday's incident. But zoo officials say he was lucky the rhino did not go after him. The man was cited for violating a park code that restricts people from bothering zoo animals.
One of two brothers who survived a tiger attack that killed their 17-year-old friend last year at San Francisco Zoo has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for violating probation in a felony reckless driving case.
Officials said Monday the city is not liable for the death of a San Jose teenager who was attacked by an escaped tiger on Christmas Day at the San Francisco Zoo.
The executive director of the San Francisco Zoo has resigned almost six months after a Christmas Day tiger attack killed a teenager and injured two others.
The parents of a teenager killed by an escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo filed a claim against the city Thursday, seeking monetary compensation for the mauling of their 17-year-old son.
Two brothers who were attacked by an escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo have filed claims against the city alleging negligence and defamation.
San Francisco Zoo workers should have believed two brothers who said a tiger was loose and had mauled their friend, but overall reacted well to the fatal Christmas Day attacks, according to the organization that accredits the nation's zoos.
A Sumatran tiger that gave birth last week at the San Francisco Zoo was hiding quite a surprise: triplets.
The big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo reopened Thursday for the first time since a tiger escaped and fatally mauled a teen two months ago.
Renovations to the big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo are complete following a fatal attack by an escaped tiger.
Police have suspended their investigation into the tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo that killed a teenager as they wait for new witnesses or evidence to emerge.
Police believe the three people mauled by a tiger yelled and waved at the cat from atop a railing before it lunged at them, but experts say that's only a notch up from the type of taunting animals regularly endure at the nation's zoos.
One of the men mauled in a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo pleaded for help from a 911 dispatcher and asked why it was taking so long to get it, according to a recording of the call released Tuesday.
Since a tiger escaped its pen and killed a person, a snow leopard has ripped a small opening in its wire cage and workers have had to dart a polar bear to goad it into its night enclosure, San Francisco Zoo officials said Friday.
A nearly 100-pound snow leopard at the San Francisco Zoo managed to rip a small opening in its wire mesh enclosure and get part of its muzzle and paw out of the gash, zoo officials said Friday.
The mother of the teen killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo says one of two friends injured in the attack told her that none of them had done anything to taunt the animal.
The San Francisco Zoo ignored complaints about an emergency response to a 2006 tiger attack on a zookeeper, a former maintenance supervisor claims in a wrongful termination and sexual harassment suit.
Attendance is up at the San Francisco Zoo following the tiger attack that killed a young man.
Nine days after a tiger mauled three visitors, the San Francisco Zoo reopened Thursday with safety improvements and more signs warning people not to pester animals such as the 350-pound Siberian tiger that killed a teenager.
Settlement Reached In Death From San Francisco Zoo Tiger Attack The parents of a 17-year-old boy killed by an escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo have reached a settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit, their lawyer said Friday.
Zoo's big cats back on public displaySan Francisco Zoo's big cats will go back on public display Thursdayat the facility's outdoor enclosure, nearly two months after a Siberian tiger escaped and fatally mauled one zoo visitor...
San Jose Mercury News - Dead teen's father says victim told him tiger was tauntedOne of three San Jose youths mauled by a tiger at San Francisco Zoo told the father of the boy slain in the Christmas attack that they had been yelling and waving at the animal while standing on the railing outside its grotto, according to news reports.
San Francisco Zoo Tiger Attack Victim Admits Drinking, Taunting Animal, Police SaySAN FRANCISCO — One of the three victims of San Francisco Zoo tiger attack was intoxicated and admitted to yelling and waving at the animal while standing atop the railing of the big cat enclosure, police said in court documents filed Thursday.
S.F. police search car, cell phones of victims of tiger attackCity and zoo officials want to inspect the Dhaliwals' phones and BMW to help defend against an expected civil lawsuit. Police are investigating possible criminal activity.
Zoo safety questioned again after near-escapes of snow leopard and polar bear(01-11) 13:38 PST San Francisco -- - New questions have been raised about the safety of visitors and workers at the San Francisco Zoo, after information surfaced today that a polar bear and snow leopard came close to escaping from their enclosures over the past week...
Tiger-Attacked Brothers Hire Legal Pit BullThe brothers who survived the vicious tiger attacks at San Francisco Zoo last week have hired legal pit bull Mark Geragos in anticipation of filing a lawsuit against the zoo.Geragos, who is known for his roster of high-profile clients from Michael Jackson and Winona Ryder to Scot …
New details of tiger attack released"SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Police Department on Friday released dramatic notes from police dispatchers concerning the Christmas Day tiger mauling that killed Carlos Sousa Jr., 17, and seriously injured two men -- revealing new details about the sequence of events."
ABC News: Did Tiger Victim Die Protecting His Friends?The last minutes of a 17-year-old boy's life were spent trying to save his friend from a brutal tiger mauling at the San Francisco Zoo, only to have the animal turn on him, police and family members said...
Police probe San Francisco zoo after tiger maulingFrancisco police combed the city's zoo for clues as to how a tiger escaped from its enclosure on Christmas and killed one man and wounded two others, a zoo spokeswoman said on Wednesday...
The 3-minute interview with Shelby HasbunThe thirty-year-old, officially known as the "Truck One" driver for the San Francisco Zoo, hauls animal droppings daily.
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