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Atascadero considering renting city hall to partiers

Written on 8 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

The Atascadero City Council will consider a plan Tuesday to make the newly renovated city hall available for private events and parties. The city recently completed $30 million of renovations to Historic Atascadero City Hall and is considering recouping some... (Continue reading)

Brown vetoes bill to put legal immigrants on juries

Written on 8 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 18 comments

Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Monday that would allow legal immigrants to serve on juries. [LA Times] Had Brown signed Assembly Bill 1401 into law, California would have become the first state in the nation to allow non-citizens on... (Continue reading)

Abel says he’s able to beat Brown

Written on 7 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 37 comments

Abel Maldonado thinks he is the answer to Republicans’ dreams of taking over the statehouse next year, and he spent last weekend articulating that belief at the California GOP biannual convention in Orange County. (Sacramento Bee) The Santa Maria politician... (Continue reading)

California to shield arrested illegal immigrants from the feds

Written on 7 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 31 comments

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Saturday that bars California law enforcement officers from turning over arrested illegal immigrants to federal immigration officials. [Mercury News] AB 4, authored by San Francisco Democrat Tom Ammiano, prohibits placing U.S. Immigration... (Continue reading)

Two cars crash into Arroyo Grande buildings

Written on 7 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

Two cars crashed into buildings in Arroyo Grande over the weekend. [KSBY] One vehicle crashed into a house Sunday afternoon and the other crashed into a restaurant early Saturday morning. Around 1 p.m. Sunday, two cars collided in the 500... (Continue reading)

Two California professors share Nobel Prize

Written on 7 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Scientists from Stanford and UC Berkeley share the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine with a professor from Yale University. [SanJoseMercuryNews] Scientists Dr. Thomas Sudhof of Stanford, Randy Schekman of UC Berkeley and James Rothman from Yale University solved the mystery... (Continue reading)

Child’s leg found at Spooner’s Cove?

Written on 6 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

UPDATE: San Luis Obispo Sheriff deputies determined the remains were sea lion and not human. The department originally responded by searching the area for more body parts. At the time, one deputy surmised it could be medical waste, sources said.... (Continue reading)

Drug smuggling boat found in Cayucos

Written on 6 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

A California Highway Patrol airplane discovered an abandoned panga boat north of Cayucos on Saturday morning. San Luis Obispo Sheriff deputies responded and found evidence that the boat had been used to transport narcotics. Deputies also found 15 fuel containers... (Continue reading)

Brown approves driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants

Written on 5 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 41 comments

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Thursday allowing people who have entered the country illegally to obtain driver’s licenses in California. [LA Times] Brown signed the bill in front of a large crowd outside Los Angeles City Hall.... (Continue reading)

KEYT and DirecTV at impasse

Written on 5 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

If a contract dispute between KEYT’s parent company and DirecTV cannot be reached by Wednesday, the news channel will no longer be available through DirecTV. On Friday, the ABC Central Coast affiliate announced to viewers that contract negotiations are at... (Continue reading)