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Attorney convicted of serial rapes in Santa Barbara County

Written on 23 Jul, 2021 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

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... (Continue reading)

Concerned citizen assaulted at Mission Plaza in SLO

Written on 23 Jul, 2021 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

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... (Continue reading)

Morro Bay teacher sentenced to jail for sex offenses

Written on 23 Jul, 2021 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

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.... (Continue reading)

Body of teen found three years after Montecito mudslides

Written on 22 Jul, 2021 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

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... (Continue reading)

Proposal to end the lawlessness in Los Osos, help the homeless

Written on 22 Jul, 2021 in Featured, Opinion | 24 comments

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... (Continue reading)

Vehicle plunges off cliff in Shell Beach, driver missing

Written on 22 Jul, 2021 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

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... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles woman sentenced to prison for attempted murder

Written on 22 Jul, 2021 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

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... (Continue reading)

Fire damages home, injures resident in Atascadero

Written on 22 Jul, 2021 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

A fire damaged a home on El Camino Real north of Del Rio Road in Atascadero on Wednesday afternoon. One person suffered minor injuries. The fire burned an acre and several fences, and then spread to the home. An Atascadero... (Continue reading)

San Luis Obispo shuts down parks to stop bullying and harassment

Written on 21 Jul, 2021 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 27 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN A group of skateboarders allegedly engaged in a harassment campaign targeting members of a San Luis Obispo youth roller derby league that included throwing food; yelling obscenities, including racial slurs; offering drugs; and making threatening gestures with... (Continue reading)

Santa Barbara man allegedly bludgeoned, killed his father

Written on 21 Jul, 2021 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN Prosecutors have charged a Santa Barbara man with murdering his 72-year-old father, as well as attempting to murder another man. Casey Tolivar, 29, allegedly used a 33-inch steel bar to bludgeon his father, Bradley Tolivar, to death... (Continue reading)