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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...