Grover Beach church wins another round
By KAREN VELIE A San Luis Obispo County judge on Monday rebuked a motion to restrain parishioners from attending services at the Bethel Baptist Church on Newport Avenue while two groups battle over...
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Man run over by Paso Robles city vehicle identified
Friends have identified the 27-year-old Paso Robles man who was run over by a Paso Robles city maintenance worker in a city vehicle on Sept. 19 as Joseph Zigler. He was pronounced dead at the scene....
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PG&E cuts off power to 24,000 customers
PG&E cut off power to about 24,000 customers in Northern California on Monday as part of a new strategy to prevent wildfires. As of 8 p.m., power shutoffs were in effect in Butte, Nevada and...
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Armed man robs Pacific Premier Bank in Paso Robles
Paso Robles police are investigating the Monday armed robbery of the Pacific Premier Bank on 12th Street. [Cal Coast Times] Shortly after 1 p.m., the robber entered the bank armed with a handgun,...
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Paso Robles police looking for ‘perfume bandit’
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Paso Robles police are searching for a woman who allegedly stole more than $1,000 of perfume from a beauty store Sunday afternoon. [Cal Coast Times] Shortly before 4 p.m., the woman...
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Airborne car flies 150 feet, trashes Santa Ynez home
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A vehicle went airborne in Santa Ynez early Sunday morning, flew 150 feet and crashed into a house, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. The impact of the...
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Atascadero Youth Football fires athletic director
By CCT STAFF The Central Coast Youth Football League announced Saturday evening it had terminated an Atascadero coach and athletic director following outrage over his conviction for upskirting a...
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Fire scorches 200 acres near Lopez Lake
Update 7:56 a.m. on Sunday: The Lopez Fire has scorched 250 acres and is 10 percent contained. A fast moving vegetation fire near Lopez Lake has burned more than 200 acres and is 0 percent...
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Atascadero youth football coach convicted of upskirting woman
By KAREN VELIE An Atascadero woman filed a lawsuit Friday against a youth football coach who was recently convicted of filming under the victim’s skirt, and then downloading the film for his own...
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Lompoc police arrest one of two men who allegedly killed a soldier
By CCT STAFF The Lompoc Police Department arrested one of two suspects who allegedly gunned down an active duty military man home on a month long leave. Officers said the the shooting was random and...
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Cayucos dog poop police
Editor’s Note: The following series, “Life in Radically Gentrifying Cayucos by the Sea,” to be posted biweekly includes the notes, thoughts, and opinions of an original American voice: author Dell...
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Victim of country tour bus crash identified as long-time crew member
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The California Highway Patrol has identified a 64-year-old sound engineer as the man who died after the tour bus transporting country singer Josh Turner’s road crew plunged off an...
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Cannabis grows destroy Los Osos Valley Road viewshed
OPINION by JULIE TACKER Over 10,000 commuters travel Los Osos Valley Road every day. As one who travels that road on a daily basis, to and from my home in Los Osos, I appreciate the beauty of the...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A medical laboratory in Arroyo Grande is closed after a Honda Pilot SUV crashed into its building Friday morning The SUV knocked down a palm tree before it slammed into WestPac Labs located at 230 Station Way,...
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Paso Robles city maintenance employee drives over pedestrian
A Paso Robles city maintenance worker ran over a pedestrian with a city vehicle on Thursday. The man in his 20s or 30s was pronounced dead at the scene. [Cal Coast Times] At about 10:30 a.m., the...
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