Hung jury in the Maureen Faibish case -- after two days of deliberation, the jury said there was no way they'd come to any kind of agreement on the case. The final count was 10 in favor of acquittal and 2 for a guilty verdict on felony child endangerment (and 7-5 on misdemeanor child endangerment). A woman in her car was killed today as a wall on a demolition site collapsed on her car. Yipes.......

You know who doesn't want to Spare The Air anymore? BART. Disturbed by the uptick in crime as a result of the all-day free rides (on that last Friday of Sparing The Air, the BART police went on twice as many calls as usual), the BART police chief has proposed that they go back to just making BART free during commute hours on extra hot and smoggy days. Matier and Ross had some lurid crimes......

"This is West Pittsburg!" Two people in Walnut Creek who were selling hooded jackets on Craigslist got held up at gunpoint in the Walnut Creek Target underground garage by their would-be buyers, two Asian-American teens (one of whom was wearing a cap that said VIETNAMESE on it and the other of whom was wearing a gold grill on his teeth). As the teens sped off in their Lexus with their 11 unpaid-for jackets, they flashed......

Well, we all knew it was going to happen -- SF DA Kamala Harris is bringing charges against Maureen Faibish for felony child endangerment. As Harris said at the press conference, "We are not in the business of vilifying parents, but in this city, we are also not in the business of allowing children to be placed in situations where they are killed when it is completely preventable." Sure. Meanwhile, a girl mauled by a pit bull in Santa Rosa the other day is recovering, and an elderly man successfully fled a pit bull attack in San Jose. The SFPD has released the 911 tapes (audio) of Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White's husband's subsequently-recanted tale of spousal abuse. "My wife is JOANNE HAYES-WHITE, THE FIRE CHIEF!!! Ow! No! Don't come near me again with that pint glass!! Don't hit me again! Aaaaaaaaagh!! Did I mention my wife is JOANNE HAYES-WHITE, THE FIRE CHIEF???" And the feds indicted 19 people in the medical marijuana enforcement action, or, what they're calling "Operation Urban Harvest." Kevin Ryan, the Bay Area's US Attorney, claims that the people busted were using medical marijuana stores as a front to sell $5 million of pot to healthy people. ...

Okay, what in the Sam Hill is going on here? Nicholas Faibish's mother, crazed from the constant media attention, announced in the Sunday Chron that welllllll, she might have known there was a problem with those dogs, because she LOCKED HER SON IN THE BASEMENT while she ran out to run errands to keep him away from the dogs. What th--??? And put a shovel in front of the basement door?? Huh? "He had a TV and a bathroom and video games down there," she says. She also speculates that Nicholas somehow broke free of the basement and went upstairs, saw the dogs mating, and somehow set them off (though she was, of course, not there at the time.) "I used to say to Ella, just go ahead and let him do it. Get it over with." Okay, this doesn't look good. And the DA's office is now not commenting about whether or not charges will be pressed. And it is San Francisco, so there's always a weird story behind dog maulings. But we have to say, we're not sure if it's more disturbing to see this spacy mom talking about, say, how the female dog used to lick off all of Mrs. Faibish's makeup (?????) -- or if it's more disturbing to see our local news media running up to the house of a family that just lost their son with mikes and booms and cameras and pounding on the door, shouting, "DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENT? DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENT?" and thus provoking these weird statements in the first place. We're going to declare this one a draw for now. (and sit here, smugly judging the media for giving us, depressingly, exactly what we wanted to know.)...