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California overstated health insurance exchange Web traffic

Written on 3 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 45 comments

California’s newly created health insurance exchange vastly overstated the traffic its website received Tuesday during the rollout of Obamacare. [LA Times] Covered California’s website, coveredca.com, received 645,000 hits Tuesday, far fewer than the 5 million it initially reported, state officials... (Continue reading)

State board tosses petition for Cayucos students to attend Morro Bay High

Written on 3 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

A petition to transfer Cayucos High School students from the Coast Unified School District to the San Luis Coastal Unified School District has stalled on a technicality. [Tribune] Numerous Cayucos parents have petitioned the California State Board of Education to... (Continue reading)

SLO County pays settlement in brutalization case

Written on 3 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 25 comments

A Nipomo family allegedly brutalized by a sheriff’s deputy during a stop for a minor traffic violation in 2012 agreed to a $150,000 settlement from San Luis Obispo County. In July 2012, deputy Steven Hurl pulled behind Jesus Ruiz who... (Continue reading)

Buellton man arrested for secretly videotaping women undressing

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

A woman using a restroom at a senior living facility in Solvang was stunned to discover she was being videotaped via a cell phone hidden in the ventilation system. Santa Barbara Sheriff deputies discovered the phone, which had videos of... (Continue reading)

Brown bans revenge porn in California

Written on 2 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 25 comments

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Tuesday banning the practice of posting graphic images or video of another person online with intent to cause emotional harm. [SacramentoBee] Posting “revenge porn” can now land offenders in jail for six... (Continue reading)

What happens in Shell Beach stays in Shell Beach?

Written on 2 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

Santa Maria residents Melinda and Julian Hale married on September 1 overlooking the ocean on a Shell Beach cliff. The couple met in Las Vegas. “Apparently not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” the Hale’s wedding website states.... (Continue reading)

SLO County water ordinance not extended

Written on 2 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 72 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday against extending an urgency ordinance that prohibits new development and the planting of crops in the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin area unless proposed projects save as much water as... (Continue reading)

Nipomo man sentenced to 11 years for fraud

Written on 2 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

A Nipomo man was sentenced Monday to 11 years in federal prison for a fraud scheme that caused more than $46 million in losses to several victims, including his in-laws, a friend and five banks. John Mark Moore, 51, operated... (Continue reading)

Yosemite celebrates birthday by shutting down

Written on 1 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

Yosemite National Park celebrated its 123rd birthday Tuesday by closing its gates due to a federal government shutdown. [LA Times] The U.S. House and Representatives and Senate failed to agree Monday night on how to renew funding of the federal... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles city council moving forward on Gateway Project

Written on 1 Oct, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 28 comments

The Paso Robles City Council is moving forward on a proposal to annex 270 acres south of the city dubbed the Gateway Project. The proposal includes plans to develop three hotels, 62,300 feet of retail space and office space, up... (Continue reading)