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By CCT STAFF The Pismo Beach Police Department is asking the public to help find a 28-year-old man who was last seen Friday in Pismo Beach. After Jacob Potter failed to arrive at work in Costa Mesa...

By JOSH FRIEDMAN A dispute between family members at a Santa Maria home Monday night resulted in a man shooting a juvenile relative of his and then shooting himself, according to the Santa Maria...

By CCT STAFF The Kern County Sheriff’s Office destroyed more than 459 acres of marijuana last week, with a value of more than $1 billion. The pot plants had been cultivated under the guise of...

BY CCT STAFF San Luis Obispo police are asking the public to help them identify an armed man who robbed a phone store on Monday afternoon. [Cal Coast Times] At about 1:35 p.m., a man armed with a...

By JOSH FRIEDMAN Thieves stole merchandise valued at about $6,000 from a pair of Pismo Beach outlet stores on Sunday, and police are searching for several suspects. [KSBY] Even though the thefts...

By JOSH FRIEDMAN The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two young children who were killed, along with their mother, in a fiery head-on collision last month on Highway 154. The...

By CCT STAFF Two men who were being held in jail on charges of gang-related murders and other violent crimes escaped from the Monterey County Jail in Salinas on Sunday morning, according to the...

By CCT STAFF An elderly man driving a truck crashed into and seriously injured two people at the Shoreline Inn in Cayucos on Saturday, according to the CHP. [Cal Coast News] Shortly before 6 p.m., a...

By CCT STAFF A former Paso Robles Joint Unified School District official allegedly approved nearly $3,000 in contracts to a company he had a financial interest in, according to the San Luis Obispo...

By CCT STAFF A woman jumped off the Madonna Road overpass onto Highway 101 in San Luis Obispo on Friday morning, according to police. She was pronounced dead at the scene. [Cal Coast Times] Shortly...

By JOSH FRIEDMAN A former staff member for a Santa Barbara youth entrepreneurship program allegedly raped a female mentee of his, who was 14 years old at the time, according to a lawsuit filed last...

By JOSH FRIEDMAN A 23-year-old Lompoc man whom guards found unresponsive in his cell died Thursday morning in the Santa Barbara Main Jail. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is calling the...

By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Yuba City man who killed another person while driving under the influence of alcohol at the Oceano Dunes in June, will avoid more time behind bars despite pleading no contest to...