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Cal Poly ekes out series victory over Santa Barbara

Written on 6 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN Cal Poly baseball is known nationally as a program that is very offensive. On Sunday, the team demonstrated that it could win a big game while relying on pitching. After Mustang hurlers surrendered 26 hits and 15... (Continue reading)

Fire tax flub allows for voting as ballots are counted

Written on 6 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

Property owners in Arroyo Grande, Grover Beach and Oceano who have yet to vote on a firefighting assessment measure can still do so, even as ballots are counted. The Five Cities Fire Authority is proposing a $66 fee on all... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly walks off with win over Santa Barbara

Written on 6 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN (Editor’s Note: Video of Cal Poly catcher Chris Hoo’s walk-off single is at the bottom of the story.) On a night in which UC Santa Barbara students partied, Cal Poly baseball fans and players celebrated. With one... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly drops game 1 to UCSB

Written on 5 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Cal Poly ace Matt Imhof entered Friday’s series opener against 17th-ranked UC Santa Barbara with a 1.05 ERA, a feature on him in Baseball America and talk of the junior lefty going in the first round of June’s Major League... (Continue reading)

Hearst home for sale at $135 million

Written on 4 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

Hearst Castle is not on the market, but the former Beverly Hills mansion of William Randolph Hearst is. [Bloomberg] The wealthy newspaper publisher spent the final five years of his life at the Beverly House, a 6-acre mansion situated on... (Continue reading)

Deputies nab two teens for string of Los Osos burglaries

Written on 4 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two teens Monday for breaking into cars in Los Osos and stealing property. A 14-year-old and a 16-year-old are accused of stealing cameras, iPods, credit cards and backpacks from vehicles in Los Osos... (Continue reading)

Arroyo Grande Bank of America robbed

Written on 4 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Arroyo Grande police are investigating the Thursday robbery of the Bank of America on West Branch Street. Shortly before 6 p.m., the robber entered the bank, said he was armed and demanded cash from one of the tellers. After receiving... (Continue reading)

Supervisor candidate Clift scores major union endorsements

Written on 3 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 31 comments

Muril Clift, candidate for the District 2 San Luis Obispo County supervisor seat, won the endorsements of three major unions and an agricultural group during the past two weeks. Clift’s endorsements by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local... (Continue reading)

Mexican cop accused of smuggling drugs into California

Written on 3 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 14 comments

A Mexican police officer appeared in U.S. federal court Wednesday on charges of trafficking heroin and methamphetamine into California. [LA Times] Last month, border patrol agents stopped a vehicle on Interstate 15 near Temecula that was carrying 11 packages of... (Continue reading)

SLO transit forks $1.5 million to CAPSLO homeless center site

Written on 3 Apr, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 43 comments

The San Luis Obispo Regional Transit Authority committed $1.5 million Wednesday to the purchase of a Prado Road property that the Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo will use to open a homeless services center. [Tribune] SLORTA and CAPSLO... (Continue reading)