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D.A. calls alleged attack cowardly -- 2 S.F. men expected to surrender today - Two 19-year-old San Francisco men are expected to surrender today to face charges in the beatings of members of a Yale singing group in what prosecutors called "a group attack on innocent victims." Richard Aicardi and Brian Dwyer were charged Monday with felony assault and battery in the incident that began with a dispute at a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco honoring the a cappella group the Baker's Dozen. The charges were filed after a two-month police investigation. Prosecutors have been reviewing police findings...

The investigation of the alleged New Year's attack on Yale's Baker's Dozen singing club could finally be headed to prosecutors -- possibly by next week, according to law enforcement sources. At least that was the word late Tuesday as the event that became a national spectacle was approaching its one-month anniversary. Those same sources, however, said they're not sure if what allegedly started as taunting over the singers' rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner" inside a Richmond District home and later spilled out onto the street has the makings of a felony assault case. Attorney Whitney Leigh, who was hired by...

As a joke, the two 19-year-olds billed their New Year's Eve party in an Internet invitation to friends as Night of Mayhem. Later, of course, that didn't seem so funny. The evening in a three-story Edwardian home in San Francisco's Richmond District began as a gathering of college kids who had graduated from one of the city's oldest private high schools, St. Ignatius College Preparatory. Guests of honor were members of the Baker's Dozen, an all-male a cappella group from Yale College that was in the city on a tour. The night ended with one member of the Baker's Dozen...

San Francisco police investigators will travel east this weekend to interview the Yale student who suffered a broken jaw in the alleged assault on members of the Baker's Dozen singing group over New Year's, according to the student's family and his civil attorneys. The case -- which sparked outrage on both coasts -- began with a dispute at a Richmond District party and ended with members of the singing group being beaten and kicked in the street. A total of ten members have told police they were assaulted, and at least two suffered serious injury. The most seriously injured member...

San Francisco police investigators on Tuesday submitted the findings of their criminal probe in the Baker's Dozen case to prosecutors, who now must decide whether to file charges in the alleged New Year's assault on members of the Yale singing group. The district attorney's office confirmed that discussions are under way with police, who have been criticized for not making arrests at the scene or immediately investigating the incident, which allegedly began with homophobic epitaphs being hurled during a house party in the Richmond District and ended with members of the all-male a cappella group saying they had been punched,...

I have been avidly following the sordid tale of the Baker's Dozen, a Yale glee club, who came to San Francisco to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a private party and were, for their troubles, apparently set upon by thugs and beaten up. The motives for the beatings, the possible role of the youthful singers in provoking the violence and, most important, the identity of the thugs, are all unknown at this time. Guess what? Politics are involved. The full narrative is available elsewhere; I'll just skip lightly across the highlights. The owners of the party house are two veteran...

new insight into how San Francisco police handled the investigation into a New Year's attack on a Yale University choir. Many are saying it was mishandled. Now the story is getting coverage around the country and the world. We're doing a running tally -- it's been 10 days and 17 hours since police responded to the attack on the Yale students, and they still haven't interviewed the victims. This case is getting city officials the kind of attention they do not want, around the world. Since the I-Team broke the story of the New Year's attack on the Yale singing...

- KGO - Members of a renowned choral group from Yale University were attacked outside a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco, sending several of them to the hospital. Now the police department is coming under fire for its handling of the case. This does not look good for the city. Yale sends its popular singing group, The Baker's Dozen, on a holiday concert tour. And San Francisco sends the young men away bloody, bruised, and several of them seriously injured. Laura Aziz sent her son, Sharyar, off on a concert tour with one of Yale University's singing groups...