Even this swanky scamming suspect’s name will fool you.
Blessed Marvelous Herve, 41, of San Francisco, is facing as many as 20 years in prison for defrauding a Bay Area couple out of $1.6 million while posing as the son of a Congolese president, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
On Tuesday, Herve was scheduled to appear in federal court in The City, but it was continued to May 8.
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When President Barack Obama was elected in November 2008, the Great Recession was picking up speed and the national unemployment rate was at 6.5 percent. By his inauguration, it had hit 8.5 percent, then peaked in January 2010 at 10.6 percent. And it’s been a slow trudge back ever since.
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Sean Penn’s son Hopper went off on a paparazzo in Beverly Hills and looked like a total jerk in the process. Hopper was behind his dad when the photographers approached, and the whole thing was caught on tape.
Hopper shoved the man, then cursed him out as he walked away, calling him a “f***ot” and a “f***ing n***er.” Astute readers might remember that his dad got three years of probation for kicking a photographer back in the day. Like father like son?
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An area code is not only three digits, but also a valuable brand identity.
That’s according to the Small Business Commission, which is worried about the impacts of proposed changes to San Francisco’s 415 area code.
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited Marin County last week on a fact-finding mission to decide the fate of a family-run oyster farm in the Point Reyes National Seashore.
Salazar met with the owners of the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. and toured its harvesting and canning operations before meeting with environmentalists and National Park Service officials.
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Think your bus is bad? Be thankful you don’t have to rely on Muni’s
76-Marin Headlands line.
The 76, Muni’s only line that goes into Marin County, has an on-time performance rate of 10 percent, often leaves passengers stranded for up to 90 minutes and doesn’t operate on Saturdays, a prime time to visit the scenic headlands.
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San Francisco has taken an important step toward building a sustainable future with its approval of CleanPowerSF. All that truly stands in the way now is making sure the rollout will allow people who do not want to participate to opt out.
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This woman was the spitting image of a drunken driver, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A 26-year-old San Francisco woman who crashed her car at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza early Saturday was arrested for “battery on a phlebotomist,” the CHP said, after she allegedly spit on the technician who tested her blood alcohol level.
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This woman was the spitting image of a drunken driver, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A 26-year-old San Francisco woman who crashed her car at the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza early Saturday was arrested for “battery on a phlebotomist,” the CHP said, after she allegedly spit on the technician who tested her blood alcohol level.
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A Marin County man is recovering at home after being attacked by a mountain lion in the Sierra Nevada foothills early Sunday morning.
The 63-year-old man, who does not want to be identified for now, was in a sleeping bag on a sandbar along a tributary of the Yuba River near Nevada City when he was attacked around 1 a.m. Sunday, California Department of Fish and Game spokesman Patrick Foy said.
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