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Man burned in suspicious Santa Maria house fire

Written on 29 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

A Santa Maria resident suffered serious burns during a house fire Tuesday night that investigators have deemed suspicious. [KEYT] The fire broke out around 7 p.m. at a home in the 2400 block of North Bentley Avenue. It remains under... (Continue reading)

Heroin recovered from Ford Bronco in Oceano

Written on 29 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s narcotics detectives found approximately $30,000 worth of heroin inside a vehicle parked in Oceano Tuesday afternoon. An anonymous tip prompted the discovery, and a sheriff’s office K9 detected the heroin. About 230 grams of heroin... (Continue reading)

CAPSLO parking program becoming permanent

Written on 28 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

The Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo’s practice of allowing select homeless individuals to sleep in vehicles overnight at the Prado Day Center is becoming a permanent city-sanctioned program, despite fading interest among the homeless population. [Tribune] The San... (Continue reading)

Letter to the editor: SLO’s unfair permitting process

Written on 28 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Opinion | 9 comments

OPINION By ALLAN COOPER When San Luis Obispo City staff denied, in January, a bar/tavern use permit at 1060 Osos Street, their rationale was as follows: “A new bar/tavern, the 64th license downtown…compounds the state of over concentration and thwarts... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo County hires new public works director

Written on 28 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

The County of San Luis Obispo announced Tuesday it has hired Wade Horton as its new public works director. Horton will be directly responsible for overseeing the operations of the public works department, which has approximately 190 full-time employees. Currently,... (Continue reading)

Developers weigh in on SLO elections

Written on 28 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 28 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN Several developers with projects under consideration by the San Luis Obispo City Council are injecting cash into the election campaigns of two incumbents who have recently supported their development from behind the dais and a county official... (Continue reading)

Arroyo Grande’s leadership cannot be trusted with a charter city

Written on 28 Oct, 2014 in Featured, Opinion | 24 comments

OPINION By JULIE TACKER Arroyo Grande voters are facing the question of “Charter City” on Nov. 4 ballot. As they do, it is important to look at its current leadership’s questionable spending and ponder; is now the time to relax... (Continue reading)

CHP officers caught trading nude photos of female suspects

Written on 28 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 36 comments

A once secret game exists within the California Highway Patrol in which officers trade nude photos of female arrestees. [Contra Costa Times] Multiple CHP officers are currently on administrative duty in Northern California as they await charges, which will likely... (Continue reading)

Synthetic marijuana blamed in deadly Cayucos crash

Written on 27 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 50 comments

The grandmother of the toddler killed in a fatal accident Saturday on Highway 1 in Cayucos said the adults in the vehicle were addicted to spice, a synthetic marijuana. [KSBY] Two children are dead, two adults are hospitalized with major... (Continue reading)

Suspected killer of two California deputies was twice deported

Written on 27 Oct, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

A man accused of killing two Northern California sheriff’s deputies on Friday is a convicted drug dealer whom immigration officials have twice deported from the United States. [L.A. Times] Luis Enrique Monroy-Bracamonte, 34, is accused of killing Sacramento County Sheriff’s... (Continue reading)