Fifteen Bay Area residents have been charged with passport fraud since the beginning of the year, according to federal prosecutors.
U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello announced the statistics in San Francisco on Thursday.
He said the individuals include the 200th Bay Area resident to be charged or convicted of a false passport offense since prosecutors adopted a zero-tolerance approach in 2007.
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Eating
Food: Delicious, hearty home-style cooking from the south of India is on the menu at Ruchi, an immaculate, reasonably priced new South of Market eatery.
Drinking
Meet Your Mixologist: Kevin Diedrich tends bar at the Burritt Room, a sophisticated spot inside the Crescent Hotel with a bit of history attached — it’s named after the alley where murder that opens “The Maltese Falcon” occurred.
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A 49-year-old mother suspected of drugging and attacking her family in their Redwood City home June 21 is scheduled to appear in court Thursday afternoon to enter a plea.
Philomena Brown is charged with three counts of attempted murder and two counts of felony child abuse for allegedly drugging her husband of 26 years and two children, ages 23 and 13, on the night of June 20, then attacking the two children early the next morning.
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Kenton Rainey was sworn in as the new chief of BART’s 296-member police force at a ceremony at the transit agency’s board meeting Thursday morning.
Rainey, 51, was police chief in Fairfield from April 2007 to September 2009 and most recently had been the commander of San Antonio’s airport police division. He assumed his duties as BART’s police chief on June 16.
He was sworn in Thursday in front of his family and many community leaders.
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A jury Thursday found an alleged San Francisco gang member guilty of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of another man while trying to steal his jeweled pendant depicting the Flintstones character Bamm-Bamm.
The San Francisco Superior Court jury deliberated for about eight days before reaching this morning's verdict, which found Charles "Cheese" Heard guilty of murder and attempted robbery in the killing of 29-year-old Richard Barrett outside a North Beach nightclub early the morning of Nov. 25, 2008.
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A 16-year-old Fremont boy died in an apparent suicide at the Embarcadero BART station in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, according to BART officials and the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office.
Daevonn Hartley was struck at about 2:30 p.m. by a train headed to the East Bay.
Emergency crews responded and were able to extract Hartley, who was taken to San Francisco General Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries at 7 p.m., according to the Medical Examiner’s Office.
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A 28-year-old woman who was killed on the lower deck of the Bay Bridge early Wednesday morning when her car crashed into a recycling truck has been identified by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office as Clara Cisneroz.
The crash was reported at about 3:50 a.m. on the eastbound deck of the bridge near Treasure Island, California Highway Patrol Officer Herman Quon said.
Witnesses reported a Volvo speeding in one of the right lanes, Quon said. He said there were reports that the car was going more than 100 mph, but that those reports have not been substantiated.
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Backers of a state initiative that would increase cigarette taxes by $1 a pack to provide more than $500 million a year to prevent, detect and treat cancer said Thursday that they have gathered enough signatures to put it on the ballot in 2012.
When former state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata and other backers announced their plans for the initiative late last year, they said they hoped to get enough signatures to put it before voters this fall.
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A woman was arrested Tuesday after allegedly offering sexual services for money to an undercover policeman in a massage parlor in San Carlos.
Officers went to Ever Green Massage at 1600 El Camino Real on a tip that prostitution was occurring at the business, San Carlos police said.
During a 30-minute massage, a massage therapist offered an undercover officer sexual services, police said. Detectives arrested the woman, 47-year-old Hui Jun Sun, of San Francisco, on suspicion of soliciting an act of prostitution.
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Who’s in town
Artist Maira Kalman visits the Contemporary Jewish Museum, where an exhibit of her work, “Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World),” opens today. Kalman’s appearance includes the launching of the Milton (5 p.m.), a series of conceptual performance spaces for whimsy and exchange. [736 Mission St., S.F., www.thecjm.org]
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Want to get the Independence Day holiday off to an early — and free — start? Check out Circus Bella’s “Gotcha!” a 60-minute, one-ring circus with themes of mistaken identity and trickery.
The show, performed at noon and 2 p.m. Saturday in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens, features new and returning artists performing aerial acrobatics on the static trapeze, zany clowning, balancing feats on slack rope, acrobatics and more, accompanied by live original music by local composer Rob Reich.
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A person who was trapped underneath a BART train at the Embarcadero station has been rescued from the tracks and taken to a hospital.
No information was available about the condition of the person, but a BART spokesman said the victim, a man in his 20s, was attempting suicide.
The train struck the man at around 2:30 p.m. and was headed toward the East Bay.
BART and Muni underground traffic was affected until about 3:45 p.m., when trains started moving through the station again.
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Detroit's two daily newspapers knew they were shoving some readers overboard in an effort to stay afloat when they decided to limit home delivery to just three days a week.
It was only a question of how many subscribers would abandon the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News once their print editions were no longer hitting doorsteps and driveways each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.
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A 20-year-old San Francisco man arrested after the fatal shooting of a teenager during the Pink Saturday celebration in the Castro district last weekend was arraigned in court Wednesday morning on gun charges.
Stephen Powell, 19, was shot at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday at Market and Castro streets, in the midst of a large crowd of celebrants at the annual street party, held the night before San Francisco’s gay pride parade.
Two other people, who were not with Powell, were also hit by gunfire and injured. Police have said they believe the shooting was gang-related.
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The 2-year-old son of former NFL star quarterback Randall Cunningham has died in what authorities on Wednesday called an apparent backyard hot tub accident.
The Clark County coroner's office identified the child as Christian Cunningham, and said the cause of death was pending.
Las Vegas police Officer Marcus Martin, a department spokesman, said the death appeared to have been an accidental drowning, but authorities were still investigating.
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