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California still withholding state parks funds

Written on 31 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

California will not return money directly to nonprofits that provided funding for state parks threatened by budget cuts without knowledge of a $54 million agency surplus. [Sacramento Bee] AB 1478, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in September, reallocated... (Continue reading)

Los Osos feud escalates to stabbing

Written on 30 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

A long-standing feud led to a 58-year-old man stabbing and slashing a Los Osos man multiple times on Sunday. Edward Tolosko allegedly broke into the victim’s home at 3205 Clark Valley Road at about 12:55 p.m. and accosted him with... (Continue reading)

Templeton felon accused of assault

Written on 30 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A Templeton man is in jail after he was accused of assaulting another person while wielding a gun. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputies responded to reports of gunfire and a possible assault with a deadly weapon to a home... (Continue reading)

Lightning strikes plane landing in Los Angeles

Written on 29 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

A lightning bolt struck a Delta Air Lines plane just before it landed at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday morning. [LA Times] Flight 284 had nearly completed a 10-hour, 15-minute journey from Tokyo when lighting struck the plane around 8... (Continue reading)

Brown appoints new San Luis Obispo County judge

Written on 28 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | One comment

Governor Jerry Brown appointed U.S. Magistrate Rita Coyne Federman a San Luis Obispo Superior Court judge Thursday. Federman, 50, has served on the U.S. District Court’s central district of California since 2004. She fills a vacancy created when Judge Teresa Estrada-Mullaney... (Continue reading)

SLO apartment fire injures two

Written on 28 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

Two firefighters sustained minor injuries and a dog died Thursday in what fire officials called “a rapidly-spreading fire” at a two-story apartment building at 729 Pismo Street in San Luis Obispo. None of the building’s nine residents were hurt, although... (Continue reading)

State’s pot backers undeterred

Written on 27 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 19 comments

Tutored by California’s prior failures to become the nation’s legal pot pioneer, advocates in Washington and Colorado learned and subsequently succeeded. Now California marijuana legalization proponents are feeling newly-empowered and eying rekindled efforts to win their next campaign. (San Jose... (Continue reading)

Unmanned vehicle crashes into bus stop

Written on 27 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

An unmanned car crashed into a bus stop at the corner of Grand Avenue and Abbott Street in San Luis Obispo shortly before 1 a.m. today. The improperly secured Mitsubishi Eclipse rolled off a flatbed truck onto Highway 101, took... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles woman died in car crash

Written on 27 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Paso Robles Police identified the woman killed in Wednesday’s multiple-vehicle crash at Highway 46 East and Golden Hill Road as 19-year-old Morganne Cortes. Four others were injured in the three car collision that occurred at about 9 a.m. Victoria Gonzales,... (Continue reading)

Parolee leads Paso Robles police on chase

Written on 27 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

A man sought by California parole officers led Paso Robles police on a chase Wednesday afternoon that ended in his arrest. Police attempted to arrest Gabriel Garcia, 40, near the corner of Capitol Hill Drive and Creston Road around 3:30... (Continue reading)