Police departments and the sheriff’s office in San Luis Obispo County have been participating in federal grant programs that allow them to obtain used military weapons, gear and vehicles. [Tribune] Through U.S. Defense and Homeland Security Department grants, San Luis... (Continue reading)
The California State University system has banned a popular campus Christian group, which has a chapter at Cal Poly, for refusing to allow non-Christians to serve in leadership roles in the organization. [Huffington Post] InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, which has chapters at... (Continue reading)
The San Luis Obispo County coroner has identified the man who died in a San Miguel bar fight Sunday night as 54-year-old Alvaro Jaramillo Medrano. Emergency responders found Medrano, a San Miguel resident, unconscious outside the Elk Horn bar around... (Continue reading)
A San Luis Obispo man allegedly bound a 27-year-old woman with tape then assaulted her with a knife, scissors, a pool que, and burned her with kitchen utensils Monday evening. At approximately 11:30 pm, San Luis Obispo Police Officers responded... (Continue reading)
Residents of a San Jose homeless encampment rescued a runaway 6-year-old autistic boy early Sunday morning. [Mercury News] Sergio Zepeda wandered away from his San Jose home Saturday morning and spent the day and night wandering several miles over and... (Continue reading)
A commercial fisherman spotted a 10-foot shark in Morro Bay Sunday, prompting the city’s harbor patrol to issue a shark warning. [KEYT] The shark sighting was the second to occur in Morro Bay in a little more than a month.... (Continue reading)
A mountain lion attacked a 6-year-old boy on a Northern California hiking trail Sunday afternoon and dragged him through nearby brush. [SF Gate] The boy was hiking with his family near a winery located in the Bay Area city of... (Continue reading)
A 17-year-old driver crashed into a man walking a bicycle across a street in Santa Maria Saturday night, leaving him with a serious head injury. The victim was pushing his bicycle across the intersection of Broadway and Inger Drive when... (Continue reading)
A man died following a bar fight Sunday night in San Miguel. Around 10:44 p.m. Sunday, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a fight between two groups in front of the Elkhorn Bar in the 1200 block of... (Continue reading)
Shortly after the release of police officer reports of a late night romantic rendezvous at Arroyo Grande City Hall between City Manager Steve Adams and a subordinate, city officials placed a public employee performance evaluation of Adams on the agenda.... (Continue reading)