Lee Romney
Former staff writer Lee Romney covered the Bay Area and Northern California news for the Los Angeles Times from the San Francisco bureau. Romney grew up in Canada and then Arizona before moving to the Bay Area. She started with the L.A. Times in 1992 and after many years in the Southland returned to San Francisco in 2003. She left the newsroom in 2015.
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Hollywood is writing love letters to San Francisco again.
July 3, 2019
One of the biggest corruption scandals in San Francisco history comes to a head Wednesday when former state Sen.
Feb. 24, 2016
A small, stuffed pink elephant rests in the crook of Hayok Kay’s arm.
Nov. 27, 2015
Debra Black insists she is “not a thief.”
Nov. 24, 2015
U.S. District Judge Charles R.
Nov. 16, 2015
Heavy equipment mechanic Fredrick Jefferson said it was when a supervisor fired him that he learned his driver’s license had been revoked because of unpaid traffic fines.
Nov. 14, 2015
A double-decker tour bus that witnesses said was driving “erratically” barreled into a busy Union Square intersection Friday, crushing cars and ejecting at least one passenger before ramming into construction scaffolding and downing power lines.
Nov. 13, 2015
The trial of Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow in a massive racketeering and murder-for-hire case opened here Monday with wildly divergent visions of the bald man who sat quietly in a gray wool sweater, listening to a Cantonese translation of the proceedings.
Nov. 9, 2015
To federal investigators and prosecutors, Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow is and has always been a criminal.
Nov. 8, 2015