Daily Briefs

Residents of Sunny Acres can stay for now
Residents of Sunny Acres can stay for now

Residents of Sunny Acres, expecting to be evicted on Friday, do not have to move out quite yet. Dan de Vaul appealed a San Luis...

Morro Bay barber likely $133 million winner
Morro Bay barber likely $133 million winner

The winning ticket in last week’s $133 million California Mega-Millions Jackpot appears to belong to a barber in Morro Bay. [KSBY] Word around town is...

Atascadero woman hides handcuffs in body cavity
Atascadero woman hides handcuffs in body cavity

A 51-year-old Atascadero woman drove into the garage of her home while allegedly intoxicated, was taken into custody, slipped out of her handcuffs and hid...

Kevin McCarthy, Young Gun
Kevin McCarthy, Young Gun

Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) may be 45, but he clearly considers himself to be a “Young Gun” when it comes to national politics. McCarthy, whose...

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Discovered

Marion Davies home for sale in Beverly Hills
Marion Davies home for sale in Beverly Hills

Marion Davies was always the other woman in the life of William Randolph Hearst and he once showed his affection by purchasing a Beverly Hills...

Spotlight: What’s happening this weekend
Spotlight: What’s happening this weekend

By LETICIA RODRIGUEZ Continue to embrace the great weather the Central Coast has been experiencing this weekend by heading out to see some great music...

Keeping abreast of National Go Topless Day
Keeping abreast of National Go Topless Day

If you didn’t know, Sunday was National Go Topless Day, what organizers called a nationwide protest in honor of gender equal rights. Rallies were held...

Spotlight: What’s happening this weekend
Spotlight: What’s happening this weekend

By LETICIA RODRIGUEZ Hot cars, wine and Cyndi Lauper are just a few of the exciting events taking place on the Central Coast this coming...

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Eye on the Coast

Big Laugh Comedy Show, event photos
Big Laugh Comedy Show, event photos

Those in the know consider the Big Laugh Comedy to be one of local entertainments best kept secrets. The shows producer and local comedian Lizette...

Zorro's Cantina fundraiser for Kinsley Wong
Zorro’s Cantina fundraiser for Kinsley Wong

When it comes to charitable acts for a neighbor, Zorro’s Café and Cantina in Pismo Beach went all on Friday. The restaurant owners donated a...

Fire Chief John Callahan’s memorial service, photos
Fire Chief John Callahan’s memorial service, photos

Almost a thousand people paid their respects to San Luis Obispo Fire Chief John Callahan at his memorial service Friday morning. The chief’s casket was...

Benefit dinner for Pastor Doug, event photos
Benefit dinner for Pastor Doug, event photos

You could certainly feel the love in the room last Sunday night when Ian McPhee turned over his popular Templeton restaurant to the many friends...

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Uncovered SLO

Journalism faculty continues to bail
Journalism faculty continues to bail

Three tenured faculty members have bailed from Cal Poly’s journalism department in the past few months leaving the department with five vacancies and only three...

Double-decker bus controversy arrives in San Luis Obispo
Double-decker bus controversy arrives in San Luis Obispo

Updated Aug. 31. to include the price of the bus and statements by Tim Bochum, deputy director of public works. Amid budget cuts and plans to...

Undersheriff Steve Bolts plans to step down
Undersheriff Steve Bolts plans to step down

San Luis Obispo County Undersheriff Steve Bolts announced Friday he plans to leave the department next month in an email memo to select sheriff employees. In...

Annie's new owners unleash their anger on Facebook
Annie’s new owners unleash their anger on Facebook

The woman who adopted Annie the dog from county Animal Services last July finally broke her silence Friday night in a scathing public letter posted...

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Opinion

What Would Proposition 23 Cost Us?
What Would Proposition 23 Cost Us?

Opinion By Andrew Christie In its August 30 edition, The Tribune gave space to Pismo Beach City Councilman Ed Waage to list his reasons why...

If hard-won court victory against Prop 8 is tossed out because of “standing” defect, you can thank Jerry Brown
If hard-won court victory against Prop 8 is tossed out because of “standing” defect, you can thank Jerry Brown

OPINION BY PETER SCHEER — If I were Ted Olson, the former US solicitor general who is leading the legal battle against Prop 8, I...

Let’s get prison healthcare out of the Intensive Care Unit
Let’s get prison healthcare out of the Intensive Care Unit

OPINION By John Laird - California’s prisons face many, many challenges. Overcrowding. Violence. Gutted rehabilitation programs. An aging, and unhealthy, inmate population. And let’s be frank,...

Run Away Prison Costs Hurting Our State
Run Away Prison Costs Hurting Our State

OPINION By Sam Blakeslee, Ph.D. - When the recession hit our nation and state revenues collapsed, Sacramento leaders were confronted with a series of dire...

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Screening Room

World without lawyers?
World without lawyers?

Do you ever wonder what the world would be like without lawyers? From the  Consumer Attorneys of California some of the 169,294 active members of...

Sunny Acres: The documentary
Sunny Acres: The documentary

Dan DeVaul has been getting all sorts of media attention lately. Now he’s apparently going Hollywood. A pair of documentary filmmakers have been shadowing DeVaul...

Video: Meg Whitman accused of shoving employee
Video: Meg Whitman accused of shoving employee

Former eBay CEO and current GOP candidate for governor Meg Whitman paid a $200,000 settlement to an eBay employee she shoved during a professional disagreement....

Greek Island of Chios celebrates Easter with rockets, no bunnies.
Greek Island of Chios celebrates Easter with rockets, no bunnies.

The Greek island Chios celebrates Easter, not with eggs and bunnies but with rockets lot’s of them.  A nighttime rocket war breaks out between two...

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