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Abuse of authority claims filed against San Luis Obispo

Written on 7 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 17 comments

The San Luis Obispo City Council will discuss two abuse of authority claims lodged by victims of former rogue police officer Cory Pierce at Tuesday night’s council meeting. In February, FBI agents arrested Pierce after an undercover investigation revealed Pierce... (Continue reading)

Los Osos woman killed in car crash

Written on 7 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A 44-year-old Los Osos woman died Sunday evening in a single vehicle crash near Sycamore Mineral Springs Resort on Avila Beach Drive. Shortly after midnight, the unnamed woman’s 1985 Chevrolet pickup left the road, struck a small tree, traveled down... (Continue reading)

California court upholds San Francisco bag ban

Written on 6 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

A California appellate court upheld San Francisco’s single-use plastic bag ban in a precedent setting ruling Friday. [SF Gate] After the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the bag ban in February 2012, Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, a pro-plastic... (Continue reading)

Salinas crop circle, marketers not aliens

Written on 6 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

The unique crop circle discovered in a Salinas farm last week was created by marketers not aliens. On Sunday at an electronics show in Las Vegas, Jen-Hsun Huang, the CEO of computer graphics company NVIDIA, announced his company created the... (Continue reading)

Santa Maria liquor store robber gets away

Written on 6 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A man robbed a Santa Maria liquor store Sunday night and evaded capture. [KSBY] The robber entered El Ranchero Liquor Store on West Main Street around 9:45 p.m. on Sunday. He showed a gun and demanded money and merchandise from... (Continue reading)

Mobile home burns in Los Osos

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

A fire destroyed a mobile home, as well as a nearby vehicle, in Los Osos Sunday. CAL FIRE received a report of a vegetation fire around 12:54 p.m. Sunday at 1690 Valley View Drive. Firefighters responded and contained the fire... (Continue reading)

Prowler repeatedly spotted in San Luis Obispo neighborhood

Written on 5 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 3 comments

San Luis Obispo police are searching for a prowler who has been active in the neighborhood of Broad and Sandercock streets over the past few weeks. In one occasion, the prowler entered a home. The woman awoke, confronted the prowler... (Continue reading)

Birds provoke cat fight

Written on 4 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured, Screening Room | 15 comments

The staff at CalCoastNews decided to share this non-local video with our readers because we found it so bizarre. In the video, a pair of birds incite two cats into a fight.... (Continue reading)

Santa Maria woman arrested for killing ex-boyfriend’s cat

Written on 4 Jan, 2014 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 18 comments

Santa Barbara County Sheriff deputies arrested a 43-year-old Santa Maria woman who allegedly choked and then stabbed her ex-boyfriend’s cat to death with a large kitchen knife. On the afternoon of Jan.2, Nellie Palacios, accompanied by her new boyfriend, entered... (Continue reading)

Pismo Beach man allegedly mailed meth to the jail

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

San Luis Obispo County deputies arrested a Pismo Beach man for allegedly sending his incarcerated girlfriend a greeting card containing methamphetamine in December. A deputy at the jail discovered meth wrapped in plastic and hidden in the card sent to... (Continue reading)