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Morro Bay considering smoking ban

Written on 20 Feb, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

Morro Bay City Council voted 3-2 last week to ask its city attorney to draft a regulation that would ban smoking in all outdoor public places. [Tribune] Both Mayor Bill Yates and Councilman George Leage voted against having City Attorney... (Continue reading)

Stop the Los Osos sewer

Written on 20 Feb, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 32 comments

OPINION By GARY FREIBERG Electronic civil disobedience is being used to try to get the attention of decision makers for the financial plight of the almost 5,000 households in Los Osos/Baywood Park who face significant impact from the proposed $300... (Continue reading)

Movie review: Safe House

Written on 20 Feb, 2012 in Discovered, Featured | No comments

By MIRANDA FORESMAN Denzel Washington could make a banana perform as if it were Carmen Miranda in the flesh. He just brings out the best in his costars that way. In his latest release, Safe House, he even manages to... (Continue reading)

Capps’ seat may be endangered

Written on 19 Feb, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 198 comments

Congresswoman Lois Capps is one of four California Democrats whose congressional seat is considered competitive, according to the Cook Political Report. [Sacramento Bee] Configuration of Capps’ 23rd Congressional District changed during the recent reapportionment, it having been a relatively safe... (Continue reading)

8 Morro Bay stores accused of selling alcohol to a minor

Written on 18 Feb, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 13 comments

Clerks at eight Morro Bay businesses were cited for selling alcohol to a minor as part of a decoy operation conducted on Thursday. Agents with the California Alcoholic Beverage Control and Morro Bay police officers instructed an underage decoy to... (Continue reading)

Police raid massage parlors

Written on 18 Feb, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 28 comments

A sweep of nine massage parlors located in San Luis Obispo County failed to produce any arrests for prostitution amidst numerous complaints from concerned residents. [Tribune] Paso Robles police and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents checked the immigration status... (Continue reading)

Grover Beach man’s plane strayed into Obama’s airspace

Written on 17 Feb, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 32 comments

A plane loaded with a large amount of marijuana was forced to land after it strayed into President Barack Obama’s no-fly zone over Los Angeles on Thursday. [LATimes] U.S. Air Force jet fighters forced the pilot of the four-seat Cessna... (Continue reading)

Local family’s story of the ether rapist on Dr. Phil

Written on 17 Feb, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 8 comments

OPINION By ROBERT SACHS This morning I was contacted by an NBC affiliate in Oklahoma.  The reporter was asking me if I was the person who wrote the article that appeared in the CalCoastNews over two years ago about the... (Continue reading)

Pair accused of doing meth in front of a child

Written on 16 Feb, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 32 comments

A man and a woman are suspected of doing methamphetamine at a hotel room they shared with the woman’s nine-year-old son. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputies arrested Clyde Cody Roberts, 22 of San Miguel and Shanna Diane Calderwood, 34,... (Continue reading)

Oceano man stabbed multiple times

Written on 16 Feb, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

An unknown suspect stabbed an Oceano man repeatedly early Thursday morning. The victim, a 23-year-old man, was in his car on Highway 101 during the attack. At about 2 a.m., the victim checked himself into the emergency room at Arroyo... (Continue reading)