SLO hires its interim finance director
The city of San Luis Obispo hired Wayne Padilla as its permanent Finance and Information Technology Director. Padilla has served as interim finance director since January during which he helped...
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SLO County homeowners facing property tax hikes
Property taxes for about 24,000 San Luis Obispo County homeowners could increase more than 2 percent next year, according to County Assessor Tom Bordonaro. [Tribune] Proposition 13, which California voters passed in 1978, limits...
Read MoreSame-sex couples marry in SLO
Eight same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses within a half hour of the San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder’s Office opening Monday. [Tribune] Most of the couples married by 9:30 a.m. By 4 p.m., 11 weddings had occurred...
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Robber nabs 18-pack from SLO Circle K
A man stole an 18-pack of beer from Circle K in San Luis Obispo early Monday morning and then warned a clerk chasing him that he had a gun. Around 2:20 a.m. on Monday, a Hispanic man in his 20s...
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California gas tax hike takes effect
Californians will pay an extra 3.5 cents per gallon of gas beginning Monday. [Mercury News] The 3.5-cent gas tax increase gives California the highest gas tax in the nation at nearly 72 cents per...
Read MoreSupreme Court rejects petition to halt same-sex marriages in California
The Supreme Court rejected a petition Sunday from Proposition 8 backers to stop same-sex weddings in California. [Huffington Post] Justice Anthony Kennedy denied the petition, upholding a ruling by an appeals court to allow...
Read MoreMcKinney leaves Atascadero with $135,000 in back pay
The city of Atascadero owes departing City Manager Wade McKinney $135,210 in vacation and sick time pay. [Tribune] In 2011, CalCoastNews reported that McKinney had been violating city personnel he was responsible for enforcing....
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Woman robs bank in Nipomo
A woman robbed Coast Hills Federal Credit Union Thursday in Nipomo. The Hispanic woman entered the bank on West Tefft Street around 4:30 p.m., mentioned that she had a weapon and demanded money. She...
Read MorePerson killed in single car crash on 101 in Shell Beach
A person died Thursday morning in a single car crash on Highway 101 in Shell Beach. [KSBY] Around 4:30 a.m., the car rolled over before landing beside the center divider of the highway near F. McLintocks steakhouse. Two people...
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Atascadero promotes Rachelle Rickard to city manager
The Atascadero City Council has promoted current Administrative Services Director Rachelle Rickard to city manager. The council voted unanimously Tuesday to hire Rickard in place of departing City...
Read MoreSLO resident identified as plane crash victim
Friends and relatives have indentified the victim of a fatal plane crash Monday as San Luis Obispo resident Scott Metzger. Metzger, 44, crashed his twin-engine plane around 1 p.m. Monday into an unoccupied Fed Ex truck parked on...
Read MorePaso Robles hot springs co-owner charged with child molestation
Co-owner of Franklin Hot Springs in Paso Robles, Leonard Ray Franklin, is facing charges of molesting three children to whom he is related. [Tribune] San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s deputies arrested Franklin, 69, last month...
Read MoreMorro Bay boating accident victim identified
Morro Bay police identified the man who died in a boating accident Sunday as 53-year-old from Bakersfield. [Tribune] Christopher Castro died Sunday morning when his fishing boat overturned south of the jetty in Morro Bay. A...
Read MoreEquipment failure in Morro Bay caused outage
An outage of two PG&E transmission lines in Morro Bay Sunday evening caused more than 150,000 Central Coast customers to lose power. [Tribune] The outage started around 9:30 p.m. Sunday and lasted until about 12:20 a.m....
Read MoreThird strike gives SLO man 30 to life for domestic violence
A San Luis Obispo man received a 30 years to life sentence Thursday for a domestic violence conviction. [Tribune] In February, a jury found Robert Eugene Deutsch guilty of domestic violence for strangling his girlfriend. Due to...
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