Attorney convicted of serial rapes in Santa Barbara County
By Josh Friedman An attorney who had been registered to practice law in Nevada, yet showed up in Isla Vista living in his “Mirror Bus” and stalking women, has been convicted of 14 charges related to numerous sexual assaults. On Thursday, a Santa Barbara Jury convicted Zachary Coughlin, 44, of...
Concerned citizen assaulted at Mission Plaza in SLO
By JOSH FRIEDMAN After starting a fight at Mission Plaza in San Luis Obispo on Wednesday, a man allegedly attempted to stab a person who tried to break up the altercation and then punched the individual who intervened in the face. Shortly before 6 p.m., Charles Alvidrez, 58, started a...
Morro Bay teacher sentenced to jail for sex offenses
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A San Luis Obispo judge sentenced a former Morro Bay High School teacher teacher on Wednesday to four months in jail for having sex with a 17-year-old student and sending sexually explicit messages to another underage student. Tyler Andree, now 25, was a chemistry teacher and girls’...
Body of teen found three years after Montecito mudslides
After three years, searchers in Montecito found the body of a teen lost during the deadly mudslides on Jan. 9, 2018, putting the number of bodies recovered at 22 with one person still missing. [KCOY] Searchers found the body of 17-year-old Jack Cantin within 1,000 yards of his family’s former...
Proposal to end the lawlessness in Los Osos, help the homeless
OPINION by BECKY MCFARLAND and PAT WEST We are all aware of the fact that the homeless crisis in San Luis Obispo County is growing faster than the remedies. While we are fortunate to have created the Motel 6 Project Room Key in Paso Robles and Forty Prado shelter program...
Vehicle plunges off cliff in Shell Beach, driver missing
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Investigators are searching for the occupant or occupants who were inside an SUV that plunged off a cliff in Shell Beach Wednesday night and landed on the beach below. At about 10:55 p.m., a 911 caller reported seeing an SUV driving on Silver Shoals Drive. Shortly later,...
Paso Robles woman sentenced to prison for attempted murder
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Paso Robles woman was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday for attempting to murder a teen with a pocket knife. [Tribune] On Jan. 14, 2020, Michaela Twyman, 25, stabbed a then-16-year-old boy in the neck in a trailer parked in the Woodland Plaza parking...
