By CCT STAFF A private investigator who spent 23 years as an IRS special agent and whose work helped dismantle a Colombian drug cartel is suing San Luis Obispo County’s waste disposal agency and...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A 19-year-old man was caught driving 107 mph while under the influence of alcohol early Wednesday morning in Paso Robles, according to the CHP. Enrique Perez, 19, was driving on...
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By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County Counsel Rita Neal is claiming the family of a 60-year-old man who died at the county jail accepted a nearly $42,000 settlement, while the family’s...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Large and small fires are burning in numerous California counties, and PG&E is continuing to preemptively shut off power to hundreds of thousands of residents, though many...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo police are searching for a pair of thieves who allegedly stole about $500 worth of clothing from a laundry room at the Mustang Village apartment complex. [Cal Coast...
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OPINION by RICHARD SCHMIDT My fascination with tiny-houses-on-wheels goes way back, before that term existed. Hippie vans of the late ‘60s and ‘70s lit the fire. Mass availability of vans was novel...
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BY CCT STAFF The 30-year-old son of Tarzan actor Ron Ely feigned having a gun in an apparent suicide by officer at his parents’ Santa Barbara County home on Oct. 15. Responding to a report of...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN The owner of a consignment store that operated at a single San Luis Obispo location for nearly 30 years before closing in May is facing charges for allegedly writing bad checks. The...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Investigators have found the wrecked vehicle of a Lompoc man who went missing nearly 2.5 years ago and whom still has not been found. [Cal Coast Times] Zachery Taylor Wilks, 27,...
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By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo police are taking a second look at the death of a 21-year-old Atascadero man who died in a fall from the Marsh Street parking garage. Thomas “Tommy” Jodry had a blood...
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Opinion by Jim Hill and Julie Tacker As moms and dads are adding the finishing touches to costumes two days before Halloween, on Oct. 29, the Arroyo Grande City Council will hold a Special Meeting...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A truck crashed into and injured a 12-year-old girl who was walking in a crosswalk in Atascadero on Monday morning. Shortly after 8 a.m., the girl was walking westbound in a...
Read More By JOSH FRIEDMAN PG&E shut off power to nearly 1 million customers across Northern and Central California over the weekend, and a wildfire raging in Sonoma County resulted in nearly 200,000...
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By CCT STAFF After three people suffering stab wounds arrived at the Marian Regional Medical Center emergency room late Saturday afternoon, hospital administrators placed the hospital on a temporary...
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By CCT STAFF San Luis Obispo firefighters quickly extinguished a fire at the PetSmart off Froom Ranch Way on Friday morning. Shortly after 5 a.m., an employee arriving at work to find flames, smoke...
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