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Red panda dies at Atascadero Zoo

Written on 3 Mar, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Atascadero Zoo workers found a young red panda curled up in a ball Saturday morning. It was dead. [Tribune] “It doesn’t have any wounds or show an obvious cause of death and appears to have just expired in its sleep,”... (Continue reading)

Storm swells damage Central Coast piers and restaurants

Written on 2 Mar, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Large storm swells damaged the Avila Beach, Goleta and the Gaviota piers and several restaurants during Saturday’s storm. Deck boards on a section of the Avila Beach Pier were disconnected after being battered by large waves that accompanied the morning’s... (Continue reading)

Bodies of Central Coast car crash victims identified

Written on 28 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two men who died in car crash in Paso Robles Wednesday afternoon as 26-year-old Jeremy Nathaniel Martin and 24-year-old Christopher Michael Medina. Martin resided in Grover Beach, and Medina lived... (Continue reading)

Former Atascadero police chief steps in for King City

Written on 28 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 38 comments

Dennis Hegwood, the former Atascadero police chief who was terminated shortly after being cleared of rape charges, took the helm of the King City Police Department as interim chief late Wednesday. King City Attorney Roy Hanley said that Hegwood, who... (Continue reading)

Woman rescued from water at Pirate’s Cove

Written on 28 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

A Cal Fire rescue crew pulled an injured woman out of the water at Pirate’s Cove Thursday evening. [KSBY] The woman suffered a leg injury and needed to be rescued shortly before 6 p.m. Minutes later, the Cal Fire crew... (Continue reading)

Earthquake shakes San Simeon

Written on 27 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck near San Simeon Thursday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake hit 23 miles northwest of San Simeon at 10:52 a.m. The shallow earthquake occurred 5.5 miles below the earth’s surface. People in... (Continue reading)

Couple arrested for string of Atascadero burglaries

Written on 27 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Atascadero police arrested a couple earlier this month for committing a string of burglaries last year. Between August and December, four residential burglaries occurred in Atascadero, in which thieves nabbed jewelry and electronics from residents’ homes while they slept. The... (Continue reading)

Suspect in shooting of former Cal Poly football player arrested

Written on 27 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of involvement in the November shooting of a former Cal Poly football player in San Luis Obispo. Deputies arrested Brian Gonzales in Hayward on Friday. Gonzales is currently in San Luis... (Continue reading)

Women assaulted on Cal Poly campus

Written on 27 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

A man assaulted a woman Tuesday evening in the parking structure at the Cal Poly campus in San Luis Obispo. [KSBY] Shortly before 8:30 p.m., the woman was walking on the second level of the Grand Avenue parking structure when... (Continue reading)

3 dead in Central Coast car crashes

Written on 27 Feb, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Three people were killed in two of the multiple auto collisions that occurred on Wednesday during the afternoon rain. Shortly before 3 p.m., a 31-year-old Nipomo man was killed in a head on collision on Highway 154 in Santa Barbara... (Continue reading)