Heartless crooks who posed as San Bruno disaster victims in order to bilk financial aid got a slap on the wrist Wednesday, according to prosecutors.Prosecutors hoped the judge would throw 42-year-old Lisa Monique Justin and 44-year-old Sonya Smith into state prison for two years for trying to obtain financial aid intended for victims of the San Bruno pipeline explosion.The pair pleaded no contest to robbery and perjury charges last month.
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John Abrahamson can still remember the panic that consumed him not long ago, out of work for 10 months, struggling to support his family. “When you are trying to take care of a child, and you’re out work ... it’s utter despair,” the 48-year-old Burlingame resident said. “There’s nothing worse than trying to find that job that you know isn’t out there.”
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The death sentence of a San Francisco man who tortured, stabbed and murdered a graduate student in 1985 was upheld by a federal appeals court Tuesday.Robert Fairbank, now 58, was convicted and sentenced to death in San Mateo County Superior Court in 1989 for the murder of San Francisco State University graduate student Wendy Cheek, 24.
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A Redwood City teenager told cops he had an “unhealthy liking for fire” after being charged with setting three blazes at a local high school last year, prosecutors said.
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A Peninsula man was told in a scam phone call that he won a $1 million prize — and then told he’d be shot in the head if he did not take steps to claim the sham prize.The man, who lives in unincorporated Redwood City, called authorities Friday about the common scam that turned scary, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office said.
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A Redwood City teenager told cops he had an “unhealthy liking for fire” after being charged with lighting three blazes at a local high school last year, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.Jeremy James Shepherd, 19, was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday for superior court arraignment on the felony arson charge, Wagstaffe said.
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A wind advisory is in effect for the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, a California Highway Patrol Officer said.The advisory was issued at 4:03 a.m. in response to the strong winds and rain, Officer Ralph Caggiano said.A wind advisory for the Bay Bridge, which was issued at 12:33 a.m., is still in effect and another wind advisory could be issued for the Richmond-San Rafael later Monday, Caggiano said.
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More than 3,000 Valentine's Day cards are being delivered to Bay Area veterans from students at San Mateo County Schools.Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo/ San Francisco, mobilized the effort by asking about 50 Peninsula schools to write the holiday cards to thank servicemen and women for their sacrifice and work in the military, according to a statement from the congresswoman's office.
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A debate over regionalizing fire service in southern San Mateo County is setting up a fiery clash between the powerful local firefighters union and the county’s contracted fire department.
A county Board of Supervisors subcommittee is expected to discuss this week two concept proposals for merging fire services in a five-city area that includes San Mateo, Foster City, Belmont, San Carlos and Redwood City that would become the county’s largest fire agency.
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UPDATE 10:30 a.m.: San Francisco police have confirmed that the woman found dead in a Lombard Street hotel room Thursday is that of Riverside County resident Colleen Waterman.
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