By JOSH FRIEDMAN United States Customs and Border Protection officers in Southern California earlier this month discovered a purported watermelon shipment that contained more than $5 million worth...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Less than two months after a man allegedly fired a gun at the Madonna Road Apartments in San Luis Obispo, he was reportedly spotted again in the area with a firearm. The suspect...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Grover Beach police on Wednesday arrested the alleged operators of a drug house, as well as a couple other suspects on the premises. Detectives and officers served a...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN For the second time this month, Arroyo Grande police plan to conduct a DUI checkpoint in the South County city. Police will conduct the checkpoint at an undisclosed location from 8...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Two vehicles collided in San Luis Obispo Wednesday night, resulting in the shearing of a fire hydrant and water flooding Higuera Street. Shortly before 10 p.m., a black pickup truck...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Santa Barbara County judge this week sentenced a former Central Coast coach and yearbook distributor to more than 72 years in prison for dozens of child sex crimes. In 2019,...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A fire burnt vegetation on a hill near San Luis Obispo High School Tuesday morning, resulting in evacuations, as well as a power outage extending from within the city of SLO to...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A vehicle crashed into a power pole near San Luis Obispo High School on Monday afternoon, resulting in an electricity outage. The single-vehicle crash occurred on San Luis Drive. No...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Caltrans announced that it temporarily halted excavation work on Highway 1 at Regent’s Slide in Monterrey County because of ongoing landslide activity around the repair site. A...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A tanker truck collided with a car just east of Orcutt on Saturday, injuring four people, one of whom was airlifted from the scene of the crash. Shortly before 4 p.m., the...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A big-rig truck crashed on an overpass just south of Paso Robles early Friday morning, resulting in an hours-long partial closure of Highway 101 near the Spring Street offramp. The...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN The Arroyo Grande City Council has decided to limit public comment on items that do not appear on meeting agendas to one minute. [New Times] During its meeting on Tuesday, the...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo police officers this week arrested a local man who allegedly stole about $20,000 of copper downspouts from the Irish Hills Shopping Center last month. On July 10,...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Three fires burned in Paso Robles Tuesday morning, two of which were near each other, and at least one of which is suspected by authorities to have resulted from arson. Shortly...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A fire in Atascadero on Sunday destroyed an RV and injured the owner of the motorhome, while also burning vegetation in and around the Salinas riverbed. Shortly after 2:10 p.m.,...
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