Santa Maria police are investigating a report that a suspect kidnapped a young girl from a residential street and molested her. [KSBY] Officers received a report of a missing child on Sunday and managed to locate the girl. The...
Read MoreA Santa Maria resident suffered serious burns during a house fire Tuesday night that investigators have deemed suspicious. [KEYT] The fire broke out around 7 p.m. at a home in the 2400 block of North Bentley Avenue. It remains...
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San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s narcotics detectives found approximately $30,000 worth of heroin inside a vehicle parked in Oceano Tuesday afternoon. An anonymous tip prompted the discovery, and a...
Read MoreThe Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo’s practice of allowing select homeless individuals to sleep in vehicles overnight at the Prado Day Center is becoming a permanent city-sanctioned program, despite fading...
Read MoreBy JOSH FRIEDMAN Several developers with projects under consideration by the San Luis Obispo City Council are injecting cash into the election campaigns of two incumbents who have recently supported their development from behind...
Read MoreA once secret game exists within the California Highway Patrol in which officers trade nude photos of female arrestees. [Contra Costa Times] Multiple CHP officers are currently on administrative duty in Northern California as...
Read MoreA man accused of killing two Northern California sheriff’s deputies on Friday is a convicted drug dealer whom immigration officials have twice deported from the United States. [L.A. Times] Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte, 34, is...
Read MoreA head-on collision on Highway 46 near Shandon sent two individuals to the hospital with major injuries early Monday morning. [KSBY] Shortly after 1 a.m., the vehicles collided on westbound Highway 46 just east of Highway 41....
Read MoreLongtime prosecutor Lee Cunningham will be the new second in command at the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office, after receiving the appointment over the weekend. [Tribune] District Attorney-elect Dan Dow, who is...
Read MoreThe Nipomo Community Services District board gave initial approval Wednesday to a request for water service at proposed housing development on the Nipomo Mesa. [Tribune] The CSD board voted 4-0, with board member Jim Harrison...
Read MoreThe California Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that it has created an Ebola hotline and call center to ease public concern about the disease. [Mercury News] Since an outbreak of Ebola was reported in Africa in...
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With one punch early Friday morning, a 21-year-old Atascadero man broke another 21-year-old’s jaw and eye socket in downtown San Luis Obispo. Atascadero resident Joshua Bradshaw was walking with...
Read MoreCovered California, the state health exchange set up under the Affordable Care Act, is threatening to terminate the insurance plans of more than 10,000 enrollees who have yet to verify their immigration status. [KEYT] If the...
Read MoreThe original owner of the domain name sex.com is spending at a record pace to grab a government post in Silicon Valley. [Mercury News] Palo Alto resident Gary Kremen, who sold the sex.com domain in 2006 for $15 million, is...
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The body of a sphinx has risen from beneath the sand at the Guadalupe Dunes nearly 100 years after it served as part of the set in Cecil B. Demille’s classic film, “The Ten Commandments.” [LA Times]...
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