Crimes Notebook

Jennifer Hall, attacked on the sidewalk near Jewel on August 25, 2008, claims in a lawsuit that “homeless persons and others were known to loiter outside” and that Jewel was negligent when it, among other things, “improperly permitted homeless persons and others to loiter on said premises when they knew or should have known that such persons had a violent propensity,” and “that such persons posed a risk to persons lawfully on said premises.”